[ltp] looking for a $100-$150 printer supported by linux

[Richard Neill]

Good point...and you're quite right - the printing support (Gimp print) 
is excellent.

Make sure if you possibly can to get an Epson which takes the old type 
of cartridges i.e. the ones without the inbuilt integrated circuit chip.
My Stylus Color 680 is cursed with these, and so I can't find cheap 3rd 
party cartridges for it. The chips are useless anyway under linux - the 
driver doesn't tell you how much ink is left.

Regards

Richard



P.S. When a printer gets jammed, and you then clear it by power cycling 
the printer, is there any good way to kill the rest of the *current* 
print job? I always find that the printer spews page after page of 
printer codes, and the only fix is the brutal:

	Turn off printer.
	stop cups, lpd
	
	rm -r /var/spool/cups/*
	mkdir /var/spool/cups/tmp
	chmod 777 /var/spool/cups/tmp
	chown lp /var/spool/cups/tmp
	
	Restart lpd, cups
	Turn printer back on.

(recreating /var/spool/cups/tmp is important - cups won't restart otherwise)


Bert Haskins wrote:
> Right from the very (Linux) beginning, Epson printers have been near the
> top as far as Linux support is concerned and if you play it right you
> can save many dollars on replacement cartridges.
> I have no connection with Epson other than as a satisfied user.
> -- Bert
> 
> David Arthur Wainberg wrote:
> 
> 
>>Have you been to http://www.linuxprinting.org/? They have a database of
>>linux/printer compatibility. Choose one that's completely compatible.
>>Under $150 should be no prob.
>>
>>--D
>>
>>On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 10:44, Luca Pisani wrote:
>>
>>>Hi...
>>>I'm looking for a printer for my ThinkPad 600E running Slackware 8.0
>>>I have to print music sheet and some photos
>>>
>>>Bye Luca
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