Hi all,

My friend is of the argument that he will buy only H.P printers, because of the HPLIP (Hewlett Packard
Linux Imaging project) where H.P developers work to make open source drivers available for linux and BSD.
This is probably the only instance where the device manufacturers works on fully free open sourced projects which support the full functionality (not merely the just works bit)

how correct is his argument ?
does this mean that HP is the only Printer company that provides Linux driver support for its devices ?

what about the epson associate avasys (http://www.avasys.jp) ?

Is there any other company which provides similar support ?

i have a brother.
http://welcome.solutions.brother.com.../en/index.html

If you have a multifunction printer (like me) then you need to get a download for each function (i.e. printer driver, scanner driver, fax driver)

If you click on the Driver Download links you'll see that they fully support all of their models and it's a cinch to find them...

Try for yourself. Search for the MFC-420CN in the Print, Scanner, Fax download sections.