Re: [SLE] HP Laser 1020 (more)

On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 19:18 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
You are certainly welcome to your thoughts, but you have NOT
considered the entire situation. The printer was DESIGNED for windoz
ONLY, without reguard to ANY OTHER OPERATING SYSTEM, and as such, it's
value is low. Would you buy a header manufactured for Ford engine to
place on an imcompatible Chevrolet motor? Of course not. Then why
purchase a printer designed to ONLY work on windoz and expect it to
work in Linux/Unix/DOS/.....?

Maybe but if windows can do the voodoo required to make it print,
there's no reason why linux can't too.

For what it's worth, my housemate has this printer on his gentoo box,
and it prints fine, except he has to power cycle the printer between
jobs to so that the firmware gets reloaded.

So to my mind there is very little left for HP to do to make this
printer work properly in linux.

Personally, I'd go for the lj1022 though :-)

Hans


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