Linux friendly inkjet printers?

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Sep 09, 2004, Tony Alfrey wrote:
>On Wednesday 08 September 2004 06:45 am, Michael Scottaline wrote:
>> I've also never had a problem hooking an HP DeskJet to any linux box.
>> Mike
>
>"Hooking" is one thing; getting the most out of the printer is another.
>The generic HP linux printer drivers ("filters") will make "stuff" come 
>out of the printer (e.g. my HP 960C) but to get full control over the 
>color balance and varioous other features, I can't get there without 
>using the Windoze drivers.  And even these make the printer 
>slllllooooooooowwwwww.

I have to agree that the Linux drivers may not take advantage of all the
neat features (e.g. things like taking advantage of some special paper
sizes).  I have an HP SCSI/USB ScanJet with automatic document feeder, and
an HP PhotoSmart 7350 printer which I could never get working consistently.
The ScanJet worked OK on Caldera eDesktop 2.4, but I had problems with SuSE
8.2 and higher where it either wasn't happy with the SCSI interface or
didn't find it on USB.  I plugged both of them into a G4 running OS X, got
the drivers from HP's web site, and have had no problems since.

Yesterday I was fighting CUPS printing from a WinXP system, and tested the
OS X CUPS printing on the G4 from a SuSE 9.0 system here using the tiger.ps
sample file from groff, and it worked fine on the PhotoSmart.

Bill
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