On Saturday 05 February 2005 00:11, Sujeet Bhatt wrote:
I am thinking of purchasing the HP LaserJet 1010 for home use. Does this printer work well with Linux? The evidence from Google is mixed: linuxprinting.org goes as far as to say this is a "Windows only" printer and is "not recommended" under Linux.
If it says windows only avoid it like the plague. Most likely the printer will have several "features" provided only by the closed driver, which will give u a problem a yr or so later. The reason: HP will disclose hardware details under a very onerous NDA, which no sane person will sign let alone a FOSS developer. Cases in point winmodems, several canon and hp printers, flash disks, graphic display cards etc. However there have been a few cases that are the opposite, where the gnu.linux version is vastly superior eg. epson printers using gimp drivers. However hardware details for such devices have been freely available.
rgds jtd