Re: New scanner/printer combo

2009-11-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tim Waugh wrote: On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 13:14 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: You can go to http://hplipopensource.com/ (aka hplip.net), click on Supported Printers, and see if the model you are considering is one of the 1,924 currently supported by hplip. Also: make sure (and double-check!) the

Re: New scanner/printer combo

2009-11-04 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 09:45 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: Why is that? Is there a technical problem, or is this just religion? Just trying to clear up a common misconception. Not all of the printers listed in the model list from HPLIP are usable with HPLIP alone. If you don't mind whether your

Re: New scanner/printer combo

2009-10-26 Thread Tim Waugh
On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 13:14 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: You can go to http://hplipopensource.com/ (aka hplip.net), click on Supported Printers, and see if the model you are considering is one of the 1,924 currently supported by hplip. Also: make sure (and double-check!) the the model you are

Re: New scanner/printer combo

2009-10-24 Thread Louis Lagendijk
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 23:43 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; My truly ancient Epson C82 finally refused to respond to the head cleaning paddles yesterday, so I went out and got a new Epson NX515 combo scanner printer. It signs on as: (Fedora 10, kernel 2.6.32-rc5)

Re: New scanner/printer combo

2009-10-24 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Gene Heskett writes: The other 3 choices were Lexmark (over my dead body) HP but the ink colors suck, cannon (no reason, just general principles) and all the 500 USD color laser stuff. If in fact there actually is scanner support from linux in any of these MultiFunctionDevices, I would be

Re: New scanner/printer combo

2009-10-24 Thread roland
On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:45:40 +0200, Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com wrote: Gene Heskett writes: The other 3 choices were Lexmark (over my dead body) HP but the ink colors suck, cannon (no reason, just general principles) and all the 500 USD color laser stuff. If in fact there

Re: New scanner/printer combo

2009-10-24 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 00:02 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: The other 3 choices were Lexmark (over my dead body) HP but the ink colors suck, cannon (no reason, just general principles) and all the 500 USD color laser stuff. If in fact there actually is scanner support from linux in any of these

Re: New scanner/printer combo

2009-10-24 Thread Partha Chowdhury
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 09:25:00AM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: My HP C5180 works perfectly both for scanning and printing, plus I have it network-connected so other people can also use it. It installed trivially with hplip. I have no problem with the print quality but I'm not doing

Re: New scanner/printer combo

2009-10-24 Thread Wendell Nichols
Partha Chowdhury wrote: On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 09:25:00AM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: My HP C5180 works perfectly both for scanning and printing, plus I have it network-connected so other people can also use it. It installed trivially with hplip. I have no problem with the print

Re: New scanner/printer combo

2009-10-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 24 October 2009, Louis Lagendijk wrote: On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 23:43 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; My truly ancient Epson C82 finally refused to respond to the head cleaning paddles yesterday, so I went out and got a new Epson NX515 combo scanner printer. It signs on as:

Re: New scanner/printer combo

2009-10-24 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:25:00 -0430 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: My HP C5180 works perfectly both for scanning and printing Yep, I'm afraid the only choice is HP products and hplip (which has support for virtually all the HP all-in-one devices, but be sure to check the hplip compatibility list or

Re: New scanner/printer combo

2009-10-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 24 October 2009, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 00:02 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: The other 3 choices were Lexmark (over my dead body) HP but the ink colors suck, cannon (no reason, just general principles) and all the 500 USD color laser stuff. If in fact there

Re: New scanner/printer combo

2009-10-24 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 11:13 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: My HP C5180 works perfectly both for scanning and printing, plus I have it network-connected so other people can also use it. It installed trivially with hplip. I have no problem with the print quality but I'm not doing photo work. I

Re: New scanner/printer combo

2009-10-24 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 11:13 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:25:00 -0430 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: My HP C5180 works perfectly both for scanning and printing Yep, I'm afraid the only choice is HP products and hplip (which has support for virtually all the HP all-in-one

Re: New scanner/printer combo

2009-10-24 Thread Louis Lagendijk
On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 11:10 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 24 October 2009, Louis Lagendijk wrote: Problem 2 is that the scanner doesn't even check in as shown above. OTOH, I also have an Epson 1250u that works flawlessly, but it would be nice to get rid of one rather high

Re: New scanner/printer combo

2009-10-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 24 October 2009, Louis Lagendijk wrote: On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 11:10 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 24 October 2009, Louis Lagendijk wrote: Problem 2 is that the scanner doesn't even check in as shown above. OTOH, I also have an Epson 1250u that works flawlessly, but it

Re: New scanner/printer combo

2009-10-24 Thread Jim
On 10/24/2009 12:11 PM, Louis Lagendijk wrote: On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 11:10 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 24 October 2009, Louis Lagendijk wrote: Problem 2 is that the scanner doesn't even check in as shown above. OTOH, I also have an Epson 1250u that works flawlessly,

Re: New scanner/printer combo

2009-10-24 Thread Robert Nichols
Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 24 October 2009, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: My HP C5180 works perfectly both for scanning and printing, plus I have it network-connected so other people can also use it. It installed trivially with hplip. I have no problem with the print quality but I'm not doing

Re: New scanner/printer combo

2009-10-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 24 October 2009, Jim wrote: On 10/24/2009 12:11 PM, Louis Lagendijk wrote: On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 11:10 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 24 October 2009, Louis Lagendijk wrote: Problem 2 is that the scanner doesn't even check in as shown above. OTOH, I also have an Epson 1250u

Re: New scanner/printer combo

2009-10-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 24 October 2009, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 24 October 2009, Jim wrote: On 10/24/2009 12:11 PM, Louis Lagendijk wrote: [...] These drivers from http://avasys.jp/eng/linux_driver/ are not of the greatest, so keep check for Gutenprint-cups drivers they do very good drivers. Do

Re: New scanner/printer combo

2009-10-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 24 October 2009, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 24 October 2009, Jim wrote: On 10/24/2009 12:11 PM, Louis Lagendijk wrote: On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 11:10 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 24 October 2009, Louis Lagendijk wrote: Problem 2 is that the scanner doesn't even check in

Re: New scanner/printer combo

2009-10-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
Louis Lagendijk wrote: On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 11:10 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 24 October 2009, Louis Lagendijk wrote: Problem 2 is that the scanner doesn't even check in as shown above. OTOH, I also have an Epson 1250u that works flawlessly, but it would be nice to get rid of one

New scanner/printer combo

2009-10-23 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; My truly ancient Epson C82 finally refused to respond to the head cleaning paddles yesterday, so I went out and got a new Epson NX515 combo scanner printer. It signs on as: (Fedora 10, kernel 2.6.32-rc5) = Oct 23 20:27:15 coyote kernel: [598891.940960] usb 1-4:

Re: New scanner/printer combo

2009-10-23 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Gene Heskett writes: Greetings; My truly ancient Epson C82 finally refused to respond to the head cleaning paddles yesterday, so I went out and got a new Epson NX515 combo scanner printer. Problem 2 is that the scanner doesn't even check in as shown above. According to SANE's database,

Re: New scanner/printer combo

2009-10-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 23 October 2009, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Gene Heskett writes: Greetings; My truly ancient Epson C82 finally refused to respond to the head cleaning paddles yesterday, so I went out and got a new Epson NX515 combo scanner printer. Problem 2 is that the scanner doesn't even check in