Re: [ILUG-BOM] printing in Fedora core 4 for HP deskjet 3940

On Wednesday 26 Oct 2005 6:49 pm, Dinesh Joshi wrote:

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cheaper HP machines are not meant to be linux compatible

What makes the more expensive machines Linux compatible? Just because they are used by corporates?! >.> If Samsung can why can't HP? They are the so called "leaders" in this field... or is there too much M$ pressure to make the machines Linux unfriendly? =P

nope, cheaper machines, like winmodems, have proprietory non-standard bits of software to replace hardware so that they can make them cheaper. this software is usually one-off stuff - not worth the effort to make linux drivers for them (if it is possible at all). This goes for lowest-end scanners and printers.