On Wednesday, 12 בMarch 2008, Boaz Rymland wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking into buying an all-in-one printer.
> ...
> If you can share some of your experience that would be great!
Generally, all HP printers are supported in Linux.
I currently have an Officejet-6313 and before that
had an PSC series one (can't remember the number,
it was an all-in-one-but-no-fax model):
* Both worked out of the box:
- Scanning through sane (xsane, kooka in KDE, gimp sane plugin etc.)
- Printing through cups (obviously)
* The drivers are all in the hplip packages.
* It also contain some handy utilities like:
- hp-setup: Helps detect the device settings and add it
to cups and sane.
- hp-toolbox: A GUI utility (has a command line mode as well) to show
other minitools (which can be used stand alone as well) for printer
parameters, scanning, ink-level reading, faxing etc.
* The old printer had only USB connection. The new one can be connected
via USB or ethernet. I connected it to my local switch and can
access/configure it via a web interface as well.
* Almost forgot, it has some slots for various camera cards (XD, MMC, etc.)
If the printer is connected via USB, they can be accessed as mass-storage
devices. I didn't had much use for this feature so I chose the network
based connection.
* One thing I noticed on my previous printers from HP (didn't happen to
the new one yet...) is that when they get a bit old, pages tend to get
stuck in the feeder very often. I stopped using an old Laserjet (1100)
after I got to the point when I had to manually feed page by page.
Hope it helps,
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