I think the issue here is compatibility and attention to detail.
Printers suck on any platform I have ever worked on. Our print servers
(Windows) at work need much care and feeding with all of the variety in
our fleet.
At home, I have been very happy with the Brother 2270DW monochrome
laser. I have it connected via a wired Ethernet connection, but it is
also capable of wireless, and I have successfully connected to this.
I can appreciate the level of criticality is important, as I only print
about 2-3 dozen pages per year (mostly at tax time). When I bought this
printer, I looked for both positive and negative reviews online that
mentioned Linux. I also reviewed the CUPS website and Brother's
website. If I recall correctly, Debian installed a basic driver/PPD at
install time, but I downloaded a single package from Brother's site to
install with 'dpkg -i'.
Thanks,
Rob
On 01/02/2018 03:33 PM, M. Knisely wrote:
I run an HP Laserjet 2420 with the generic Postscript driver w/out
issue, though I can't say as I've ever printed off Ebay. I've found it
MUCH better to buy a used or refurbished business line printer than it
is to go with anything on the shelf at BestBuy (et al).
As to the issue, there have been times when I was not able to get a
Windows printer to work on Linux, my ex-father-in-law's brother MFP.
Brother even had "Linux Support" but it just plain didn't work
reliably. I'd tinker and tinker and got it to work on one and only one
of my Linux machines (Mint, as I recall). In that situation, I did use
his Windows machine to share the printer to my Linux boxes... so a VM is
a viable way to go.
As to Virtualbox being a poor hypervisor, I'll agree that it's not
anywhere near as efficient as Hyper-V, but given the horsepower we have
in our machines, I don't see it as an issue. I'm typing this message on
a 7 year old HP laptop that runs multiple VMs in Virtualbox without
issues. Where hyper-v works great, but it should be noted that this is
NOT an option for Windows10 Home as the feature is not available on that
version of Windows.
As to not being able to get outside the local network, it is very easy
to stop it. Making the assumption that it is able to discounts his
ability. I'd also say that even if it did have access to the Internet,
if it's not being used to browse then it's likely still going to be a
pretty safe solution... much safer than having windows native with a
Linux VM. The only way that having Linux in the VM is safer is if you
are sure to boot the Linux VM and use it every time you're going to the
Internet.
Knisely
On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 6:10 PM, Henry Keultjes <keultjesh@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:keultjesh@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
On 12/31/2017 06:10 PM, rcrislip wrote:
For what it's worth, I print using HP 4550 Color Laser, HP
CP1518 Color
Laser, HP P2015 Laser, and HP M1100 laser printers, hardware and
virtual. So my suggestion is to get a name brand printer and
when you
install it on your linux system you should (and that's the operative
word here) be able to locate a driver for it.
Mike Bell already mentioned that our experience with HP was about as
bad as any brand and certainly much worse than Brother. But it is
also obvious that we all have Linux but quite unlikely that any of
us have an identical configuration.
The objective, early last years, was to get a Canon LBP6230dw
working, only in the USB connected mode. The further objective will
be to get a Canon D570 working after that.
I used to use the Konquerer browser because I already use Firefox
within KDE and I would prefer to go that route again but I may have
to hold off on that. See what magic Mike can work when he comes over.
There was hope that Ubuntu switching to their own DE might solve a
bunch of these desktop issues but the way I read the tea leaves,
that's not about to happen and I am not about to go the Gnome route.
As Mike posted, installing a Debian version of the Firefox browser
might help so that's what we will do first and we will see what happens.
Thanks for all the help!
Henry Keultjes
Mansfield Ohio USA
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