until you do realize you can't print to the latest laser printer your boss bought because it's simply not supported by any driver on linux
Run that one by me again. You're saying that after going to the hassle of Linux migration the IT deprtment isn't going to spend the 1 minute required to heck if the new printer they would like to buy is supported?
And then ignoring that issue for a minute - you said "laser printer". I think you're confused. It's the inexpensive home desktop inkjet printers that don't work with Linux. Pretty much all laser printers speak either PostScript (which any UNIX based OS has zero issues with, no extra drivers of any kind required) or PCL which again Linux has no problems with. I dare you to find any decent laser printer that doesn't work flawlessly immediately with Linux.
HP makes any number of LaserPrinters that don't do PCL/PostScript in hardware. They are done in software. I'm not going to claim they are decent printers. They are mostly single user, small user group type printers. The HP 1012 (not claiming it's decent).
I know I bought a printer about 5-6 years ago that was the same thing built by somebody else (Sony I think?). It used a SourceGear driver. The ghostscript guys said they'd actively write a driver for it's language because they were such nice printer
Really, in the parent post I never even claimed the HP 1012 didn't work under Linux. I just said it was a non-PCL/PS printer. I did however in other places in this thread say that the HP 1012 doesn't work. I could be wrong on that. I've never used the 1012 in my life. However, I know several linux savvy people who couldn't make a low-end HP printer work via cups, print-tool, or hand munging the printcap files. I just went and found the lowend one that doesn't list Linux as supportable, that doesn't li
> spend the 1 minute required to heck if the new printer they would like to buy is supported?
As a sysadmin (who used to use Sun HW) I had to buy a SCSI card, the vendor when asked if the card was compatible with Linux, proposed a 5 times more expensive board which was compatible, to avoid spending more I spend 2 hours checking compatibility with Linux and let's just that website indicating compatibility for Linux suck big times (even distribution's one) and finally made a student check for me if it was
With all the fancy scientists in the world, why can't they just once
build a nuclear balm?
Linux is fine on the business desktop (Score:-1, Troll)
'business' ? not yet
Re:Linux is fine on the business desktop (Score:4, Informative)
Run that one by me again. You're saying that after going to the hassle of Linux migration the IT deprtment isn't going to spend the 1 minute required to heck if the new printer they would like to buy is supported?
And then ignoring that issue for a minute - you said "laser printer". I think you're confused. It's the inexpensive home desktop inkjet printers that don't work with Linux. Pretty much all laser printers speak either PostScript (which any UNIX based OS has zero issues with, no extra drivers of any kind required) or PCL which again Linux has no problems with. I dare you to find any decent laser printer that doesn't work flawlessly immediately with Linux.
Jedidiah.
Re:Linux is fine on the business desktop (Score:3, Informative)
I know I bought a printer about 5-6 years ago that was the same thing built by somebody else (Sony I think?). It used a SourceGear driver. The ghostscript guys said they'd actively write a driver for it's language because they were such nice printer
Re:HP 1012 (Score:3, Informative)
Re:HP 1012 (Score:2)
Look here for specific details on the HP Laserjet 1012. [linuxprinting.org]
Re:Linux is fine on the business desktop (Score:2)
As a sysadmin (who used to use Sun HW) I had to buy a SCSI card, the vendor when asked if the card was compatible with Linux, proposed a 5 times more expensive board which was compatible, to avoid spending more I spend 2 hours checking compatibility with Linux and let's just that website indicating compatibility for Linux suck big times (even distribution's one) and finally made a student check for me if it was