On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Isaac Mushinsky wrote:
Yes, I saw that. But FreeBSD is not linux, and using multiple drivers for
the same device is more of a problem for us. HPLIP, on the other hand,
requires bare ugen, not loading ulpt or uscanner or perhaps even umass, a
very unnatural and cumbersome thing for me (I want umass, and I also
sometimes use a Nikon photo film scanner, which work via sane).
You can use umass devices with HPLIP, but you must load umass after the
printer has attached as a ugen device. Then you can attach and detach umass
devices as much as you please. You seem to imply there is a conflict
between uscanner devices, but I don't see what that conflict might be.
Uscanner will not grab the scanner function of a multifunction printer with
hplip. It doesn't appear there is a conflict of executable names either.
Thus I am looking for a network device, or if USB, then it should appear as
separate uscanner/ulpt/umass.
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 1:08 PM, herbert langhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Hi Isaac,
this is a good start:
http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting
In the 'printer' section you find a ranking and evaluation how the
printers do on unixoid systems.
Cheers
herbs
mount -t wbush /dev/whitehouse /dev/nul
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:12:52 -0400
"Isaac Mushinsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My 10-year-old deskjet being out of ink and probably not worth a
replacement
cartridge (it works, but makes some mechanical noise lately), I am
considering a reasonable replacement, preferably with scanning/copy
possibilities.
I tried to get Photosmart C4280, but while I was trying a faulty
printcap on
it, it lost its mind permanently (says 'incompatible print cartridges',
and
does not respond to the button combinations that HP support thinks
should
reset it). Besides, you can either attach it as ulpt or uscanner device,
or
play with hplip drivers as a generic device, but it seems too
confusing. It was a waste of time and money for me and I am going to
return
it.
Requirements:
1. Reasonable physical size (should not be much larger than the old
deskjet).
2. Either network/lpd or USB, scanner should be well supported by sane.
If
used via USB, it should be a compound device (i.e. printer, scanner and,
if
there, the umass device should appear as separate devices to avoid
kld-loading and unloading modules). I heard Epsons show up as compound
devices? any HP laserjets?
3. Reasonable maintenance cost (maybe a laser printer, I do not care for
color printing that much).
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