[ltp] Linux approved scanner/printer combination

Alejandro Bonilla linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:33:59 -0600


> Jaime Iniesta wrote:
>
> > Don't know about good brands, but I think HP is the best
> choice for Linux.
> >
> > My experience: *Avoid Lexmark*. I bought a scanner+printer device
> > (X5250) and it is not supported on Linux.
> >
> > Jaime
> >
>  ... and so did some of my friends :( ... don't buy lexmark
> this times,  HP is making a real effort toward linux
> community as most
> of its hardware is *perfectly* supported under free os.

Almost all my HP hardware works with Linux. Printer was really easy to
setup, even apt-get had a package for it.

.Alejandro

>
> paul