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Many of these printers don't work well on Free OSes unfortunately. Or require binary blobs (looking at you Canon) that are barely maintained piece of software c
by ta988 6y ago
Many of these printers don't work well on Free OSes unfortunately. Or require binary blobs (looking at you Canon) that are barely maintained piece of software cobbled together...
- giantg2 6y agoI had an HP and Lexmark working with Ubuntu and didn't have any problems that I can remember. I still imagine the market demand is quite low, especially if there are some existing printers that already work. I guess I could see it if it was DIY. But then the question would be why it hasn't been done already.
- meowster 6y agoI use Ubuntu and my Brother laser printer is plug-and-play... not with USB but with WiFi!!! Now scanning on the other hand...
- ta988 6y agoAbsolutely, some printers work beautifuly.
- Ekaros 6y agoWhy don't we have a common interface for printers. Something you could just push a simple pre-processed postscript or even bitmap. And then the device would do the stuff it needs to print it. Have basic set of options in there, page size, duplex, etc... They likely already have enough processing power for that anyway...