[ale] Printer recommendations

[jimmyc at speedfactory.net (Jim Philips)]

On Wednesday 02 February 2005 06:00 pm, James Sumners wrote:
> If you are going to get an HP, which I recommend as they are the
> easiest to use under Linux, then you should read
> http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/productssupported.php in addition to
> linuxprinting.org. The hplip package was just committed to the Debian
> Unstable branch a couple weeks ago and I must say that it is better
> than the standard foomatic support. The Qt utility that comes with it
> even reports the ink levels on my HP 3280!

Epson printers always have great support under Linux as well. There has long 
been a tool--escputil--for checking ink levels, cleaning heads, etc. In KDE 
the printing tool makes use of this through the GUI to report on all of this 
and let you maintin your printer.