beartooth wrote:
Fool that I was, I bought a printer on someone's recommendation, without thinking to check whether it worked with linux. It's a Lexmark X1185 -- which didn't then, and still doesn't afaict: linuxprinting finds no driver for it. So will there be any new printer drivers in FC5 that are not yet generally available on linuxprinting? If so, is there a list I can check mine against? Fwiw, I've been running an XP machine, just for topo maps and GPS stuff; but it's beginning to look like CrossoverOffice 5.0 (CXO) will be able to handle at least the most important (to me) of the proprietary suites of GPS/topo software that I have, Maptech and Garmin. But, I'm told on the CXO list, neither wine nor CXO can handle any printer that linux can't already run. So, if I take to running a clean OS on what is now the XP machine, will that mean I have one more bulky paperweight sitting around? Or is there hope with FC5 once I update to that?
I always ask, who makes the driver for Windows? Is it Microsoft or Lexmark? Contact Lexmark for support.
I purchased a Lexmark and never again. It had Linux software available from Lexmark and I purchased it after reading the "windows reviews". The software was crap and the support was worse.
Since then I have found that Lexmark is more geared to getting their printers into the market and then making a killing on ink cartridges. I don't think I ever managed to get a cartridge to empty, just to quit working. This is the same for hundreds of otheres that I have read about on the net.
-- Robin Laing
