I will have to admit. Ever since I graduated college and got my job around 4 years ago, I somehow didn’t need to print stuff at home as much. Not that I print house stuff at the office, ahem, but without school reports to submit, there just isn’t that much stuff to print. And I stopped printing photos as well. It was too much of a hassle buying photo paper from the always crowded CD-R king, printing them, cutting them, blah blah blah.
Installing A Printer In Linux
I was a Windows (power) user until a few months after I got my current job. So for the first time in years, I find a place to put my old HP Deskjet 3845 and plug it into my computer running the latest Ubuntu, 8.10 Intrepid Ibex. It was too quiet, kinda spooky, except for the little icon on the taskbar that looked like a printer. I dunno, I must’ve been too long in the Windows world. When you plug in your printer, there are no pesky popups, no dialags asking for driver CDs, not even a dialog telling you “Hey, I’m a install a printer, dawg. Hit the Next button. And after I install it, you gonna have to click on Finish. ayt?”
Printer has been added.
Was install successful? The screenshot to the left says “you betcha!” Can’t get any easier than this, except maybe Mac OS X might…maybe. Someone with a Mac, can you please tell me if it’s as easy as pie as well on your side? Coz I’m sure I can tell ol’ great granma, “Oh you got a new printer? Sure, just plug it in!”
I haven’t tried Vista. So I searched “install printer in vista” and found a nice site called Vista4Beginners. I thought the instructions would be compartively easy, since this site was for Vista Beginners, but…well you’ll just have to take a look for yourselves.
So here’s to another piece of hardware that I WON’T NEED DRIVERS for.:D
No-Driver-CD-Needed Hardware So Far (Might have forgotten something. Doesn’t really matter):
- Motherboard/LAN/ACPI etc.
- WiFi
- Graphics Card
- Sound Card
- Touchpad
- Touchscreen
- HP Deskjet 3845
ohh boy, I really enjoyed reading this. Maybe because of what is going on for last couple of days. I try configuring a Cobalt Raq4i from (almost) scratch. I started to hate days of command-line and compiling, but thanks to this post I remember that Gnu/Linux is by far the best OS I have used
regards,
PS. I submitted this to digg.com manual, since the digg button gives some weird error. This might be better: http://www.addthis.com/ & http://www.addthis.com/help/plugins/wordpress/
Kanesodi, thanks for the nice words and for the Digg. I’m trying out addThis based on your recommendation.
Thanks!