Re: [UUG/MLUG] Cheap Linux Printer?

[Jeremy Hinegardner <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Hmm.... Well I hooked up my mom with a Linux box a couple of months ago
and her parallel port Canon BJ200 Ink Jet printer worked perfectly
out of the box.  I just hooked it up and lpr defaulted to knowing it was
there. I did absolutely nothing and it printed.  Of course you only 
get the fonts the printer knows natively but courier and times is fine
with mom :).

If you want to use WordPerfect for Linux it has internally quite a few 
printer drivers that WordPerfect uses to format the data and send
it to lpr.

Of course my situation could be one of those "lucky" incidents where it
all just magically worked.

-jeremy


 
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 11:18:02AM -0500, Scott Greathouse wrote:
> I have finally had it with my crappy Windows-only printer (an HP 820Cse
> color inkjet printer). I'm hoping that I may be able to get a new one
> for Christmas, so...
> Does anyone have a recommendation for a printer?
> My qualifications are:
> 1. Linux compatible printer that won't require any Windows-only printer
> voodoo to get it to work
> 2. As cheap as possible or at least not horrifyingly expensive -- sorry
> to be so vague.
> It does not need to print in color, nor be a laser printer. I don't even
> care if it is slow.
> It would be really cool if it were ethernet compatible or upgradeable
> (though I realize this will cost me) -- either 10 or 100 megabit.
> I've already looked around a bit, but I'd rather hear from the people
> who use the printers rather than the ones who sell them.
> Thanks,
> Scott
> 
> --
> Scott Greathouse
> Research Coordinator
> Assessment Resource Center
> (573) 882-2963
> 

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 Jeremy Hinegardner             EMAIL:PROTECTED
 Research Assistant             http://meru.cecs.missouri.edu

 University of Missouri - Columbia
 Multimedia Communications and Visualization Laboratory
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