Blocking hardware accessibility through software: a printer's tale

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Oct 7, 2006 5:28 AM EDT
Linux Journal; By Bruce Byfield
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What are you getting when you buy a printer to use under GNU/Linux? TheLinuxPrinting.org site can tell you how well a printer will work with free software, but often that's only part of the story. I came face to face with this simple fact when I recently bought a Hewlett-Packard PhotoSmart C3100, a low end inkjet printer that includes scanning and copying features. Besides basic features, like many today, the printer includes features that run without a computer, if only with the specific Windows or OS X software that accompanies it.

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