Ricoh Supports KDE Printing Development (KDE.News) [LWN.net]

Ricoh Supports KDE Printing Development (KDE.News)

Posted Oct 27, 2005 8:11 UTC (Thu) by ekj (subscriber, #1524)
Parent article: Ricoh Supports KDE Printing Development (KDE.News)

I experienced something similar the other day. I was looking for a cheap laser for printing some course-material for my students, and showed up in the store with a list of well-supported printers collected from the internet.

I'm guessing 90% of the printers there would have, in actuality, worked well with Linux. But 1 of them had a large Tux on it, next to the Windows and Mac icons.

Guess which one I bougth ?

At home I plugged it in and turned on the computer, Mandriva informed me "there seems to be a new printer connected, would you like to configure it?", "configuration" consisted of telling Mandriva that I'm in europe, so I tend to use A4 papers, and that was literally it.

This is nice news.

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Ricoh Supports KDE Printing Development (KDE.News)

Posted Oct 27, 2005 20:16 UTC (Thu) by cventers (subscriber, #31465) [Link]

Hopefully Linux support is becoming a big trend. It's nice to see Tux
stamped on the box, and I think you're far from alone in the realm of
Linux users - we're likely to choose hardware that proudly displays Linux
compatibility. So maybe that will make said compatibility an important
thing.