On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 02:15:52PM +0200, Boaz Rymland wrote:
> - having good printer drivers under Linux. Fairly easy to find. > - working scanner functionality under Linux is highly desirable. Look up the SANE pages. Pay special attention to features you want or need. For example one scanner I had was supported by SANE, but not for low resolution black and white scans. You could do a photograph fine, but scanning documents took forever. You had to scan them as high res photos and then convert them to black and white with gimp or a similar program. > - independent fax capability Another detail to check. Some can be used as an independent fax, some can also be used as fax modems. > - shared printing: I need to be able to print to it from windows and > linux. I don't mind how this is achieved (setting linux as a printer > server, network presence of the printer, etc) as long as its easy > (enough) to install and maintain. There are two ways to do this. CUPS is your friend. You can drive it from your Linux system and use SAMBA to share the printer. Or you can print directly to it from Windows using "Internet printing". (IPP?) The other way is to put the printer on the windows computer and print to it with SMBprint (part of the SAMBA package). CUPS will work nicely with it for Linux printing. > - under 1000nis (will this be a problem?... at least not much more than > this limit). Lots of them for that price. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (07)-7424-1667 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 Visit my 'blog at http://geoffstechno.livejournal.com/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
