[SWLUG] Photo printer recommendations for Linux?

[Jonathan Wright]

Justin Mitchell wrote:
> I tend to stick to HP printers these days, the quality seems good and
> they supply linux drivers for most models via the LIP and older IJS
> drivers, many of their printers also support a level of PCL, which is a
> guarantee of getting at least some amount of printing out of it.

I'm using a HP Photosmart 2610 All-in-one (network connected), and 
although I don't use the fax option on it (but it is supported via the 
HP drivers), nor the memory-card reader (which samba shouldn't have a 
problem with), it does work very will via cups and xsane (for scanning).

Along with the HP drivers (hplip), you can also get the HP Toolbox which 
will allow you to run cleaning, alignment, etc. commands to the printer, 
just as with Windows.

As to the printing - never had a problem, but I can't vouch for Photo 
printing, as I've always fallen back to a Windows system to do that, as 
you can't set borderless printing, or set for Photo-paper.

Also, the configuration options are not as rich as in Windows as I can 
only set the resolution, paper, orientation and color/grayscale, but you 
may have more success if working in gimp-print.

It's a shame, as lasers on the other hand (especially commerical-level 
ones) do have a much better range of options available.

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