On Donnerstag 04 Dezember 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Donnerstag 04 Dezember 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> Does anyone have a good way of figuring out what printers that you can > >> actually buy in the retail market place actually have support in > >> Linux? I sure don't. > > > > forget the 'opensource' printers, and buy a turboprint licence. It rocks. > > It really does. > > I'll have to write them and get some answers. Can I run it on multiple > machines using a singe license. None of my printers were in their > supported list so do they support them or not? They should be able to > answer those sorts of questions. > > However, their list of supported devices is still much smaller than > the Open Source list so it begs the same question... Even though they > have support for a nice set of printers, which of those printers can > be purchased new today through normal retail channels? > > Thanks for the idea. I'd not heard of them. > > Cheers, > Mark
my story: I have a canon pixma ip3300. With opensource drivers I got either no picture, wrong colours or the paper was completly wet. I asked turboprint, shortly afterwards I was able to buy a licence for a driver perfectly supporting my printer on amd64.
