Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

2013-08-22 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 1:31 AM, E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il wrote: 2013/8/19 Gilboa Davara gilb...@gmail.com: snip beyond the blood-like ink prices /snip I'm pretty sure blood is actually cheaper then ink here in Israel (the price of one serving [a half a liter I think] of

Re: OOPS, I meant MFC-490CW (Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?)

2013-08-20 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
I have to concur with Hetz, I have gone through absolute hell with non-hp printers and their support of drivers. HP at least has an officially supported OSS driver project and drivers that generally function The best is to use linuxprinting.org to check if the printer has good (preferably

Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

2013-08-20 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/8/19 Gilboa Davara gilb...@gmail.com: snip beyond the blood-like ink prices /snip I'm pretty sure blood is actually cheaper then ink here in Israel (the price of one serving [a half a liter I think] of blood product for a hospital is about 178 NIS)

Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

2013-08-19 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il wrote: [SNIP] I would say that today it's anything but HP - unless things changed [/SNIP] I must admit that my experience couldn't be any different. I've got a large number of HP printers both at work and at home, most of them MFP (multi

Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

2013-08-19 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On 8/19/2013 10:35 AM, Gilboa Davara wrote: Beyond the obvious (cups, x/sane), HPLIP toolbox more or less mirror's the HP Window toolbox minus the all the bloatware and in most cases the printer simply works out of the box. If you download the CORPORATE windows drivers for your HP printer you

Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

2013-08-19 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: If you download the CORPORATE windows drivers for your HP printer you get it without the bloatware. True, but even the HP corporate drivers tend to be big, slow and have a fairly complex installation

Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

2013-08-19 Thread ronys
Hi, Thanks to all for your replies. Based on them and reviews, I've decided on an HP Officejet Pro 8600+ (710 NIS, picking it up this evening). Will let the honorable forum know if I find any surprises with this, for better or worse. Cheers, Rony

Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

2013-08-19 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
I would also recommend checking Google Cloud print. You can install it on any Linux server (even headless), and then you can use it from anywhere. See here: http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=enanswer=2906017 תודה, חץ בן חמו חץ ביז- שרותי פרילאנס לניהול ותחזוקת שרתי Linux ופתרונות

Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

2013-08-18 Thread ronys
Greetings, My trusty HP all-in-one has finally gone to the great bit-bucket in the sky after one of the scanner lid hinges broke, and I'm looking for a replacement. This is for home use: Color printing is required by family members. Other than that, I'd like network connectivity (pref. via

Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

2013-08-18 Thread Omer Zak
I would say that today it's anything but HP - unless things changed for the better during the last two or so years. I am an happy user of the Brother MFC-490W printer-FAX-scanner-copier. --- Omer On Sun, 2013-08-18 at 10:29 +0300, ronys wrote: Greetings, My trusty HP all-in-one has

OOPS, I meant MFC-490CW (Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?)

2013-08-18 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 2013-08-18 at 10:41 +0300, Omer Zak wrote: I would say that today it's anything but HP - unless things changed for the better during the last two or so years. I am an happy user of the Brother MFC-490W printer-FAX-scanner-copier. OOPS, I

Re: OOPS, I meant MFC-490CW (Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?)

2013-08-18 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
I have it the other way around. I really like the HP All in one and their hplip Linux package which does almost anything that the Windows drivers do - and more (yay, Python scripting ;) ). Furthermore, HP is only company which actually DO give support for their Linux drivers with the printers,

Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

2013-08-18 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 18/08/13 10:41, Omer Zak wrote: I would say that today it's anything but HP - unless things changed for the better during the last two or so years. Please elaborate. Shachar ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il

Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

2013-08-18 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 18/08/13 10:29, ronys wrote: Greetings, My trusty HP all-in-one has finally gone to the great bit-bucket in the sky after one of the scanner lid hinges broke, and I'm looking for a replacement. This is for home use: Color printing is required by family members. Other than that, I'd like

Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

2013-08-18 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
ronys ro...@gmx.net writes: My trusty HP all-in-one has finally gone to the great bit-bucket in the sky after one of the scanner lid hinges broke, and I'm looking for a replacement. This is for home use: Color printing is required by family members. Other than that, I'd like network

Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

2013-08-18 Thread Oron Peled
On Sunday 18 August 2013 10:41:38 Omer Zak wrote: I would say that today it's anything but HP - unless things changed for the better during the last two or so years. Really? Let's debunk this baseless paragraph... * I'll start with personal and therefore anecdotal experience: - HP