Recent printer experiences have forced me to blog away on the topic.<\/p>\n
After many frustrating hours trying to my HP multifunction device to work with Linux last week, I finally gave up and dusted off my old Epson<\/a> Stylus Colour 670, plugged it in and started printing. The installation took about 30 seconds.<\/p>\n So much for HP’s ‘support<\/a>‘ for Linux printing. Sure it’s great to see HP actually care enough about getting its hardware to work under Linux – to the extent of writing a driver front-end – but what’s the point if the driver’s themselves don’t work? It’s a PSC 2210 multifunction device and all FOUR drivers for it failed to produce anything.<\/p>\n On the other hand the trusty old Epson works perfectly. So I strongly recommend getting an Epson printer if you’re a Linux user. Surely market forces are beginning to mean something nowadays? From memory I also got an Epson USB scanner to work well with Linux about five years ago. I can only hope that today’s modern Epson hardware lives up to its ancestors’ compatibility. Well, at least there are a lot more perfectlys than paperweights<\/a> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n You’ll pay a bit more for an Epson but in addition to it working with Linux they are, in my experience anyway, good, solid machines that last a long time too.<\/p>\n Rodney<\/p>\n [Disclaimer: I don’t work for Epson, don’t write about Epson, don’t have anything to do with Epson, don’t think I will ever have anything to do with Epson (do they even have local PR?), I just want a bloody printer that works with Linux]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Recent printer experiences have forced me to blog away on the topic. After many frustrating hours trying to my HP multifunction device to work…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,17,21,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daytoday","category-it-management","category-linux","category-open-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}