Hi all,
ISTR that we covered this recently but I can't find it in the archives. Anyhow, I'm looking for a printer/copier/scanner/fax machine that works with Linux (well, the printer/scanner bit) but there are so many devices and so many that don't work with Linux that I am banging my head against the brick wall. Does anyone know of a good one? (oh, I guess I have up to 150 quid to spend).
Thanks Adam
The only flatbed machines at your price point I have sold (I really wouldn't bother with the sheet feed only units) are the HP 5510 (now discontinued) and the HP 6210 both of these have a 20 sheet ADF on the scanner. Both should be available within your budget. The only differences I can think of are that the 6210 has a better control panel and a USB Pictbridge socket.
Also be aware that some manufactures *cough* Lexmark *cough* Epson *cough* Have a habit of advertising Fax capability on their low end machines when that capability is provided by software (not on the machine)
We have sold a number of the 5510's and a few of the 6210's and had no complaints so far.
As far as I know basic printing and scanning is supported on both of these units by the HP Linux Printing Project http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/ this project alone, to my mind is a compelling reason to go for a HP unit (at least they are trying)
I would quote you for one but I know for a fact that Misco are underselling me on this product by a reasonable margin at the moment.
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 11:39:06PM +0100, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
The only flatbed machines at your price point I have sold (I really wouldn't bother with the sheet feed only units) are the HP 5510 (now discontinued) and the HP 6210 both of these have a 20 sheet ADF on the scanner. Both should be available within your budget. The only differences I can think of are that the 6210 has a better control panel and a USB Pictbridge socket.
Also be aware that some manufactures *cough* Lexmark *cough* Epson *cough* Have a habit of advertising Fax capability on their low end machines when that capability is provided by software (not on the machine)
We have sold a number of the 5510's and a few of the 6210's and had no complaints so far.
As far as I know basic printing and scanning is supported on both of these units by the HP Linux Printing Project http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/ this project alone, to my mind is a compelling reason to go for a HP unit (at least they are trying)
I would quote you for one but I know for a fact that Misco are underselling me on this product by a reasonable margin at the moment.
I can confirm that the HP products do work well with Linux though not the specific ones above. I have an HP7310 All-in-one which sits on my little home network and works well with both Linux and Win2k. The Linux drivers are actually much more practical and much less bloated than the Windows ones.
On 9/27/05, Chris Green chris@areti.co.uk wrote:
I can confirm that the HP products do work well with Linux though not the specific ones above. I have an HP7310 All-in-one which sits on my little home network and works well with both Linux and Win2k. The Linux drivers are actually much more practical and much less bloated than the Windows ones.
Apparently on the HP3330 network scanning can be a bit odd, and the administrator (not me!) hasn't sent up network faxing, but otherwise it works well.
It feels weird recommending an HP printing device these days. The windows drivers leave a bad taste in the mouth.
Tim.
On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 10:53 +0100, Tim Green wrote:
It feels weird recommending an HP printing device these days. The windows drivers leave a bad taste in the mouth.
I know, it's an odd thing. I refer to my post a few week or so back where I said that although I would like to see more manufacturer support I don't want to see the same bloated crufty "value added features" tat that seems to come with every Windows driver install these days.
Worst offenders for me (apart from the 500MB HP driver package installations for some of their multi function printers) are Nikon View (which should get some sort of award for most confusing interface ever) Canoscan Toolbar/ScanGear and later versions of Nero Express (I can't comment on Easy CD Coaster because I refuse to install it).
A prize for special effort should go to those wireless card manufacturers who replace a reasonably functional Windows XP Wireless configuration utility with one that only starts the card on login...because that is oh so handy when you want to log in as a new user on a domain attached machine.
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 10:20:30PM +0100, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
A prize for special effort should go to those wireless card manufacturers who replace a reasonably functional Windows XP Wireless configuration utility with one that only starts the card on login...because that is oh so handy when you want to log in as a new user on a domain attached machine.
One of the worst offenders has to be Intel with their Pro wireless 2200 card on windows, you need to install the centrino chipset drivers before the wireless card drivers or it won't work (this "feature" is undocumented) Of course the chipset drivers are about 30 *megs* and then the wireless card drivers are another 50 *megs* (and there was some other bits, I forget). Of course to make the card work with ubuntu I just needed some (non-free but worse, because of Intels stupid redistribution clause) firmware, which was about a 1 meg download iirc.
I also recall my parents HP PSC-750 that has a few hundred megs of drivers for windows and performs worse with Windows than it does with Ubuntu :)
Adam
Adam Bower wrote:
Hi all,
ISTR that we covered this recently but I can't find it in the archives. Anyhow, I'm looking for a printer/copier/scanner/fax machine that works with Linux (well, the printer/scanner bit) but there are so many devices and so many that don't work with Linux that I am banging my head against the brick wall. Does anyone know of a good one? (oh, I guess I have up to 150 quid to spend).
Thanks Adam
I have an HP PSC1205 which works fine but does not do the fax bit.
Ian
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