[libreoffice-users] Re: printers compatible with Gnu&Linux

Le 07/06/2013 12:33, Tom Davies a écrit :

Hi Tom,

> Does anyone know of companies that do product-lines that are easily compatible with Gnu&Linux?
My 2cents :

Canon : OK for workgroup printing, even fairly complicated option stuff 
*_IF_* you manage to get hold of a PPD file that you can then fiddle 
with to add the missing options that you don't get with their standard 
driver...

Absolute crap for everything else, scanning, photocopying, faxing 
directly from the PC client, even under Mac. They write all their driver 
stuff for Windows first, then as an afterthought for Mac, and by 
extension Linux/Unix OSes. This may have changed in the last three 
years, as I haven't tested recently, but we had one hell of a bad time 
with the rented Canon iR Fax/Photocopier/Scanner/Printer that a rather 
clueless associate of mine decided to have put into the firm I was 
working in at the time. The sales support were equally lacking in 
proficiency - what's Linux ? No one uses OSX anymore, etc, etc. You 
might want to check today, though, you never know, they might have had 
an epiphany !!

We switched to HP - much better support, and the technicians were mostly 
OS agnostic (sales support as usual only knew that it ran in a Windows 
OS environment). However, printing quality and colour rendering was not 
always up to par with the HP device compared to the Canon. Swings and 
roundabouts, I guess.


Alex


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