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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Distros specifically designed for children
Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 09:46:36 +0100
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On 30/05/2025 02:36, rbowman wrote:
> On Thu, 29 May 2025 21:22:46 +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> 
>> My Inkjet printer doesnt allow me to fill magenta ink into the cyan
>> reservoir either. And it even works driverlessly with Linux, just to get
>> back on topic.
> 
> I was surprised when I plugged the Samsung laser printer into the Linux
> box It Just Worked. I have a fraught relationship with printers going back
> decades. I seldom print and it used to be a very unpleasant experience to
> get the damned things to work.

Yup. I tend to load HPLIPS and use that, but unless your printer model 
is super brand new, the config files for it will exist in CUPS


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