{"id":80,"date":"2009-08-28T00:56:10","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T21:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vpv.kapsi.fi\/blog\/?p=80"},"modified":"2009-08-28T00:56:10","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T21:56:10","slug":"the-linuxopen-source-friendly-printer-we-finally-bought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vpv.kapsi.fi\/blog\/2009\/08\/the-linuxopen-source-friendly-printer-we-finally-bought\/","title":{"rendered":"The Linux\/open source friendly printer we finally bought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/vpv.kapsi.fi\/blog\/2009\/08\/any-laser-multifunction-printers-out-there-with-open-source-linux-drivers\/\">trying to find a printer which works with open source drivers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When discussing the purchase with my parents, they mentioned that they&#8217;d like to get a color printer for printing photos and such. So the printer we actually ended up getting for them is the HP CM1312 MFP. It is quite a bit more expensive than the monochrome ones but worth the extra price, IMO.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently this printer has Postscript support, which probably helps a lot with Linux support. When I powered on the printer and then booted my parents&#8217; Fedora 11 box, the printer automatically showed up in the &#8220;Printers&#8221; view (system-config-printer) and printing worked without any extra configuration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hplipopensource.com\/hplip-web\/models\/color_laserjet\/hp_color_laserjet_cm1312_mfp.html\">HP claims that in order to be able to scan you&#8217;d need to download a proprietary plugin<\/a>, but that&#8217;s false. Just make sure you have the <tt>libsane-hpaio<\/tt> package installed and that \/etc\/sane.d\/dll.conf includes an &#8220;hpaio&#8221; line and scanning should work with programs such as xsane and GIMP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I wrote about trying to find a printer which works with open source drivers. When discussing the purchase with my parents, they mentioned that they&#8217;d like to get a color printer for printing photos and such. So the printer we actually ended up getting for them is the HP CM1312 MFP. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fedora"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vpv.kapsi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vpv.kapsi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vpv.kapsi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vpv.kapsi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vpv.kapsi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vpv.kapsi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/vpv.kapsi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vpv.kapsi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vpv.kapsi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vpv.kapsi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}