I'm looking for any recommendations of a printer, scanner, or combo unit that will work well with Linux.
I will not consider an ink jet at all, so it must be a laser printer. I would consider a color laser, but I'm aiming for the $200 - $300 range, or cheaper. Though I might be willing to spend a bit more if the unit is REALLY good, and is "stupid simple" to set up on Linux. I just tried out a Samsung SCX-4200, with only partial success. This is a printer/scanner/copier unit. I was able to get printing working, and copying (cuz there's no computer interface needed for that), but scanning was an utter failure. So much so that I think I need to purge sane/xsane from my system outright, then reinstall them - or rebuild my box from scratch. I blogged about my experience: http://grover.open2space.com/node/160. Funny thing is that the unit is marked as "Perfectly compatible" on the linuxprinting.org site. Must be just the printing part of it. (I returned the unit...) I do not NEED a scanner/printer in a single unit. I'm willing to treat them separately. I'll rarely ever use a scanner, but do have a project in the next while that needs a bit of scanning work. Also, I need recommendations where to find said printer/scanner. Staples, Future Shop, Memory Express, all have rather limited options, and most of them are not well regarded on linuxprinting.org. Thanks for any input. Shawn _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
