[conspire] danger at Fry's before 2100 , nota printer

[Bill Ward]

I bought a Samsung printer (don't recall the model number) at Frys for
about $60 a year or two ago, and I love it love it love it.  It works
perfectly under Linux, Windows, and Mac without any fuss.  CUPS comes
with drivers for it under Ubuntu.  Easy peasy.  So the rule should not
be "don't buy cheapies" but rather, check for Linux compatibility
before you buy.

On 4/12/07, bruce coston <jane_ikari at yahoo.com> wrote:
> re: don't buy cheapies from Fry's etc.
>
> Looking at the today only special from them, its
> 120-50(MIR)=70 for a brother laser printer. Going I
> saw no boxes of them there but did see a sign at 2
> stores about a 2040 laser. Looking at cups on my
> simplyMEPIS6.5 install I find no 2040 listing. Don't
> get tenpted by those because neither = a driver match
> for the brother 1440 laser I enjoy nor does that 2040
> have a listed driver. Don't expect it to work out.
> Grabbed a vm file that mimics a 20g ide drive next to
> a bunch of files that mimic different scsi drives.
> Suspect some recent compatibility problems come from
> the site recommending the scsi images for linux , thus
> the vm where stuff gets tested does not really
> resemble cheaper desktop boxes.
>
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