Review of the HP Photosmart C4205 on GNU+Linux
The HP Photosmart C4205 worked totally and immediately on Fedora 8 and Gobuntu 7.10.
By immediately, I mean with no installation action - it literally “just worked.”
By totally, I mean this for all 3 features of the printer: printing scanning and memory card reading.
The only things that suck are to do with the hardware design, which no one is free to change:
- The scanner lid isn’t on a Z hinge so with thick books it doesn’t lie flat
- The paper feeder sometimes jams - which I’ve noticed within 2 days of light use, which isn’t great
- The ink cartridges are very small and I expect this will be an expensive printer in the long term, despite being only £50 from the local supermarket
- It has a proprietary power supply socket
The Review of the HP Photosmart C4205 on GNU+Linux by David Crossland, except the quotations and unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
December 18, 2007 | Filed Under Personal Thoughts
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