Re: [tlug] Am I the last to know?

[Attila Kinali <attila@example.com>]

On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 10:49:41 +0900
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephenjturnbull@example.com> wrote:

> But I don't think you can blame Ubuntu or GNOME for that.  AFAICT, the
> real problem is that Epson and Canon release only crippleware for
> FLOSS OSes.  (Yes, I've used the source, Luke, and even a quick look
> made me puke.  Magic numbers everywhere, no docs, don't check status
> returns or assert non-NULL pointers, I could go on but this is the
> Disney Channel and children might be watching, right?)  HP's drivers,
> OTOH, have always worked fine for me, and 3rd-party drivers for HP
> (hello, Ghostscript!) usually work pretty well, too.  Even upgrades of
> HPLIP don't break my system and I get a high quality test page without
> tweaks.

Ok, that explains why i never had problems with printers. At the university
and everywhere i worked i had HP printers. With one exception: at my
current work, we have a stone age lexmark. It's kind of slow for a big
office printer, doesnt have colour, automatic stapling and definitly
doesnt make coffee, but otherwise it works just fine.. unless you feed
it a us letter sized document, then it expects you to change the paper
feeder for letter sized paper. (for some reason that's never been a problem
with windows...)

> But who (besides the Japanese taxpayer) can afford HP gear
> with the features that a 2-man-en Epson gives you?

Common.. HP's are not that expensive. I mean, i bought a super expensive
HP LJ 2605dn (yes, networked and with duplexer!) for 4-man-en (at that time).
Stuff w/o network interface or w/o duplexer were litteraly half price.

			Attila Kinali

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