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Sheer curiosity: Do we have any printer with libre drivers now?

• yellowapple 11y ago
  HP's and Brother's printers have entirely-FOSS drivers, IIRC. At least the former's printers will work on my GNU/Linux systems without installing drivers (as opposed to other vendors - like Canon or Epson - that require separate driver installation in most cases).
  • TD-Linux 11y ago
    I've plugged in a few friends' Epson printers and it just worked. I don't think I have yet to run across a printer that didn't work in the last 5 years or so (maybe it's just because my printer usage is declining)
  • vetrom 11y ago
    MFPs can be a bit hard to deal with, but my Epson 7890 runs entirely from CUPS/GhostScript. Now, the printer itself, runs what's definitely a proprietary OS. Most of the printing problems in that line go into the printer itself. Blobs all the way down!
    • yellowapple 11y ago
      Interesting; maybe Epson's turning around a bit. Last I checked, I still need a proprietary driver for the Epson WorkForce printer my grandparents use for color printing (alongside the HP Laserjet 1320n I gave them for greyscale). Then again, some vendors will be hit-and-miss when it comes to out-of-the-box driver support (my Konica-Minolta color laser is one such example), and I guess Epsons are in that category.