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    recommend USB printer?

    In an effort to save power, I'll be downing my P2 print server, and using the USB port on my Asus router.

    Which means new printer time.

    Any recommendations? Gotta work for me and the kids using Linux, work for the wife using her XP machine.

    Thanks!

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    What are your requirements? color, inkjet, laser, picture quality, papersize etc.
    Do you expect to print lots of pictures?

    HP printers have very good support.

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    Can't recommend a model number but I've had great success with HP printers. I even have mine hooked up via the router. And it's USB.

    I would not suggest the latest and greatest. Get a model that's been around a few years. And I I don't mean a used one.
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    For inkjet, I had complete success with the Lexmark X2670. I had to download the manufacturer's driver, but it installed first time and Just Worked(tm), even though it was a Suse package on Mandriva.

    Some people might not like their "Returns Program" though - it's the first time i've ever been asked to accept a EULA on a print cartridge!
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    I'm using a Samsung CLP-300 series printer with the latest version of Slackware and the foo2zjs printer driver...gives me excellent results and effortless CUPS setup.
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    We've recently picked up a Brother MFC-495CW Wireless Inkjet. You need to grab the CUPS drivers from them and do some manual setting up but it's been good to us, other than the normal Inkjet cartage money trap. Our house computers are only Linux and a Mac laptop and Brother is good about supplying drivers for non-MS OSes.

    Plus it's kind of fun to print something from the couch in the other room

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    Quote Originally Posted by Icarus View Post
    Plus it's kind of fun to print something from the couch in the other room
    Would that use the "Hide-a-Bed or Sectional Driver"?
    "I was pulled over for speeding today. The officer said, "Don't you know
    the speed limit is 55 miles an hour?" And I said, "Yes, but I wasn't going
    to be out that long."

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    Quote Originally Posted by JohnT View Post
    Would that use the "Hide-a-Bed or Sectional Driver"?
    The generic kernel driver for that should be good

    # make menuconfig
    Device Drivers -> Input Device Support -> Miscellaneous devices -> Fabric Interface


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