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I have a Ricoh color laser printer (mc250fwb) which is absolutely wonderful hardware and toner wise, but the linux drivers are only provided as a self extractin
by a2800276 4y ago
I have a Ricoh color laser printer (mc250fwb) which is absolutely wonderful hardware and toner wise, but the linux drivers are only provided as a self extracting exe-file, and the scanner feed is not supported.
The Android app is the biggest piece of crap imaginable. It can only scan to an app internal folder, and scans can only be moved to dropbox or google docs, not to public folders accessible to other apps on the device. And you have to move them individually, the only bulk operation is delete.
The windows driver is not as terrible, but ... wouldn't rate it better than "meh".
So great hardware, terrible driver situation.
- theK 4y agoHang on it is 2023 and there still isn't a global standard on printing interfaces? I thought all printer manufacturers had decided to use that CUPS thing more than a decade ago?
- a2800276 4y agoI believe that is only the interface towards the computer, printer specific options still require that interface to be implemented. And scanners ...