• u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    Printers. Always a problem. I wanted to use my HP PSC1315 under Windows, but apparently the driver used Flash Player…? so it doesn’t work anymore. On Linux HP has pretty good support with HPLIP, so for normal printing it works (this printer has “partial support”). Unfortunately for high DPI I have to use Windows 7 virtual machine.

    Oh, yeah. You can just use Windows as printer driver with VirtualBox.

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      1 year ago

      yea man, there is way more printer features on windows than on linux, since manufacturers decided so. i am not tech savy and i fear i might have to troubleshoot my way through a vm just to print a pdf. guess i ll have to run a separate machine just for my windows needs, but great idea nonetheless.

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          1 year ago

          its a 3in1 30$ wifi inkjet canon: as long as kept from dust and humidity especially, the thing is a beast: printed almost 20k pages with one before it broke. cartridge infinitely refillable and a 1L ink bottle lasts to infinity and cost 10$.