[buug] Color laser printer compatibility

Pewter Bot pewterbot9 at gmail.com
Mon May 11 17:20:13 PDT 2009


Per Rick Moen's sage advice to steer clear of *all* inkjet printers,
and in need of acquiring a good quality color printer, I've started
looking at the laser species. Delighted to see that I have a wide
selection these days when I'm willing to spend up to $150. Prices sure
have dropped compared to several years ago!

Of course, I will do my homework re. Linux compatibility, consumer
reviews, cartirdge expense, etc. But I now would like to pose the
following question, regarding system requirements listed on eBay.
Thusly:

"Minimum system requirements: SuSE Linux 8.2, Red Hat Linux 9, Red Hat
Fedora Core 1, Mandrake Linux 10.1 Discovery, SuSE Linux 9.2, Red Hat
Fedora Core 3, Red Hat Linux 8.0." [I removed any Windoze and Mac
listings, for brevity's sake.]

Interesting that neither Debian nor Ubuntu were listed. Now, I would
gladly dual-boot w/2 versions of Linux if need be. But wouldn't there
be a rather simple workaround, in order to get the printer to work in
Ubuntu? Or is this some proprietary arrangement that would not allow
this? TIA.

-- 
Zeke Krahlin
Zekeopolis Headquarters



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