2013/12/11 Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> > > My ancient printer's ink cartridge has finally dried up > & the mobo in my regular computer accepts only USB. > I don't do much printing, but occasionally need a few pages. > > The local store has an HP Deskjet 2510 on sale this week. > > Does anyone have thoughts or suggestions ? >
Regarding HP printers and hplip, I recommend buying a printer which does not require a binary plugin [1]. First they are a source of trouble and second the binary plugins are not supported by Gentoo which means there is no maintainer for a plugin ebuild [2]. Plugin installation currently is not under contol of the package manager and hplip tries to automagically download and install the plugin which often fails. [1] http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/plugin.html [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=352439 -- Regards Daniel
