[ILUG] Lexmark Linux Printer/AIO Driver Developer's Kit

[Conor Daly]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 06:58:04AM +0200 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Brian Foster thought:
>   | Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 20:49:02 +0100
>   | From: Conor Daly <conor.daly_ilug at cod.homelinux.org>
>   | 
>   | I fought with inkjet printers for a few years with
>   | sporadic and limited success.  [ ... ]
> 
>  I've never had any problem getting either Epson inkjet
>  I've owned to work, with both LPRng and CUPS.  the best

The main issue I had was occasional incidents where it started printing
crap instead of what I wanted.  It may have been to do with being on an
old external print server but it wasn't tractable.

>  the only issue I've had is the first Epson eventually
>  exceeded what can only be called planned obsolescence,
>  with the firmware _deliberately_ refusing to allow me
>  to continue using the printer.  despite being cheesed

I heard of this.  Essentially, it claims the waste ink pads are full and
you have to send it off for replacements.  Now, you can _clean_ the ink
pads but the printer will still refuse to work.  When I read that, I
decided Epson printers were not worth my time...

>  I did ultimately buy another Epson,
>  this time a higher-end model.  I subsequently found
>  that other people have made the same decision under
>  the same circumstances, so it's not quite as odd as
>  it sounds.

My assumption is that the other people were stuck in the old mode of:

"MS Windows has broken so I'll pay MS more money for an later version of
 MS Windows..."

I chose the other mode:

"My Epson printer stopped working for me so I won't buy Epson printers..."

Conor
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Conor Daly <conor.daly at oceanfree.net>

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