Printers - Ubuntu vs Windows

[Charles Yao]

Hi, 

Youre pretty lucky, ive had problems with my MFP, not all services work.



On 8/6/05, Matt Galvin <matt.t.galvin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Ok, I know most of you know this but I thought I would share this
> experience anyway...
> 
> A windows machine we have currently somehow "forgot" that the printer
> was installed. It no longer worked no matter what I did. I then had to
> on windows...
> 
> prelim) spend some time trying to get it to work again
> 1) uninstall the drivers
> 2) Reboot
> 3) Unplug the printer from the computer (the drivers don't install
> right when its connected (wtf?... no seriously... WTF?)
> 4) Download new drivers (from unnamed manufacture website)
> 5) Install new drivers
> 6) Reboot again
> 7) Attach the printer
> 8) Dang it, it didn't recognize it
> 9) Manually Search for new Hardware and tell it to use the drivers
> 10) #8 is a few steps which are omitted for brevity
> 11) Windows still failed to recognize it
> 12) Reboot AGAIN
> 13) Windows finally sees the printer
> 14) Add the printer (a few more steps left out for brevity)
> 15) Set this "new" printer as my default.
> 
> I then later moved the printer over to one of my Ubuntu machines so
> that I could set it up as a print server b/c i don't want to deal with
> this again. On Ubuntu i had to...
> 
> 1) Plug in Printer
> 2) System(click) -> Administration -> Printing(click)
> 3) Add Printer(click)
> 4) WooHoo, my printer is already detected and shown to me :)... Forward(click)
> 5) WhoooHooo, it even picked the right driver... Apply(click)
> 6) WhooooHooooo, its already set as default and worked on the first try!!!
> 7) um, no 7 i am already using my printer :)
> 
> On windows it was a 45 minute epic battle of man against machine.
> 
> On Ubuntu it took all of about 10 seconds (not counting time
> untangling wires) with 5 mouse clicks. I didn't even have to pick what
> to install. Everything was automatically detected beautifully.
> 
> All I can say is... Thank You!
> 
> Matt
> 
> /me wonders why people still deal with this nonsense from m$
> 
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