Linux Printers

Mini rant for today. I have a new all singing, all dancing combo printer/scanner (photocopier/fax) machine which to be honest worked a dream and installed in microseconds on Windows XP and Server 2003.

Now, remembering that I am die hard linux fan, there is no chance this machine was going to escape the attentions of the SuSE or Ubuntu machines. Howeve Lexmark, in their infinite wisdom have decided against using CUPS (standard install on most linux boxes) to drive their printers.

Nightmare. Needless to say getting it working in Ubuntu was easier said than done, and so far I havent managed to get it running in SuSE as that requires removing CUPS entirely – it is needed for other hardware.

Argh.

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