Which is the best printer to purchase

Hello All,

I have noticed within this forum there are a lot of issues with various
printers. I too am having problems with the Lexmark x7170.
I was considering of letting the wife use this on her windows machine, and I
would buy another. Any recommendations for a good quality linux printer?

Thanks for all replies
- Greg

On 05/23/2006 Gregory Deyss wrote:
> Any recommendations for a good quality linux printer?

Did you check
http://www.linuxprinting.org/
?

Here I prefer HP, because they support an open source driver project (http://hplip.sourceforge.net/) and make printing on Linux pretty easy. At work, I have a Kyocera Mita CX850, but apart from the price, your wife may not like a fridge sized copy/scan/printing machine in the house :-)

Uwe

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> Did you check
> http://www.linuxprinting.org/

In addition to the above, cups.org and Linux doc
/usr/share/doc/packages/cups have useful info. Personal use/desktop
computers are pretty cheap these days, it is the supplies (i.e., ink) that
adds up. Do a google on "printer comparisons linux". Linux Magazine always
has good articles.

We have a network Phaser Xerox printer. We use CUPS and I downloaded and
installed the PPD file from Xerox and installed into the DB via YAST |
Hardware | Printer.

I see in the log the message:

hp: unable to open /var/run/hpiod.port: No such file or directory:
prnt/hpijs/hplip_api.c

I turned on loglevel DEBUG in CUPS and the message is definitely coming
from CUPS (even though the process says hp).

I googled the above and hplip and it appears alot -- as people include
snippets of their log. Not having a HP printer I thought I'd uninstall
hplip and hplip-hpijs, but there were a number of dependencies, including
CUPS.

Any thoughts on what is causing the above message and how to get rid of it?

Thank you.
PR