Waking up the printer makers to the existence of ubuntu and other linux users

[Nils Kassube]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> I have, indeed, found boxes that advertise Linux support, 

Linux support advertised on the box doesn't mean a thing. I remember a 
Lexmark printer which had advertised Linux support on the box. A friend 
bought it and couldn't make it work. Finally we found out, they only had 
a driver for an obsolete RH version. There was no way to make it work 
with the Suse version which was on the friend's machine.

> but it's  
> pretty easy to find out if any particular is supported online.

Yes, that's where I would look as well - not on the box.


Nils