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Printers that are known to work with free software.
HPLIP

The HPLIP project provides free software printer drivers for GNU/Linux machines. Here is a list of supported printers. Be careful using this list because a small percentage of these machines require proprietary firmware in addition to the free driver. Any printer with "yes" in the far right column requires a non-free "driver plug-in" and so could not be part of a fully-free system.

You might also find useful information at linuxprinting.org. Note that they list many printers that require nonfree software to work as well (but are compatible with GNU/Linux systems using proprietary drivers), so be careful.

If you have information about printers that work or don't work with free software, please let us know!

We have received reports from some users of gNewSense that they have had success with some of the following printers. Please note, these have not been tested in the FSF offices.

Brother

HL-5280DW

Epson

R320 Series

C64

CX6600

Hewlett-Packard (HP)

HP Deskjet D1460, HP Deskjet F4100, HP Deskjet F2280*

Samsung

SAMSUNG CLP-300 (via USB connection)

An * indicates a multi-function device where all parts of the device except one worked.

Last modified 2009-07-17 05:24 PM
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