On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 02:40:29 +0000, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>__/ [GreyCloud] on Monday 13 February 2006 23:44 \__
>> Gordon wrote:
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>>> On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 23:00:37 +0000, AZ Nomad wrote:
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>>>>On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 22:43:14 +0000, Gordon <gordon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>wrote:
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>>>>>Ubuntu 5.10 - System-Administration-Printing. New Printer. Use detected
>>>>>printer - yes. Thats ALL there is to it.
>>>>>Windows XP on the other hand, keeps telling me that my printer is new
>>>>>hardware. The preferred solution is - to install drivers for ANOTHER
>>>>>printer!
>>>>
>>>>It gets even better with HP's software on their printers. Do a remote
>>>>login using 'remote desktop' and it'll want to reinstall the drivers and
>>>>copy 180M of crap from I don't know where to god only knows where else.
>>>
>>>
>>> ROTFL!
>>>
>>
>> Hehe... I've tried to get HP printer software to install on win98, but
>> all it would do is hang. Don't suppose HP is trying to tell people to
>> move away from M$??
>Ubuntu 4 detected my SP scanner without me setting /anything/ up. Just launch
>XSane and off you go acquiring images. It worked perfectly out of the box,
>despite being a 5-year-old scanner.
>Under Windows (I only tried 98), one has to run the installation from the
>accompanying CD, which adds unwanted and miserably poor software by default.
>Ugly minimalist GUI for quick-and-dirty scans. No comparsion to XSane...
And of course no 64 bit version of windows will work with any printer whose
manufacturer hasn't written 64 bit versions of their drivers. Compare that to
gimp-print which compiles just fine for 64 bit processors and will perfectly
support every printer it ever has.
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