unsusbscribe On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 12:00, <[email protected]> wrote: > Send mlug mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of mlug digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: looking for a scanner and colour printer (Peter) > 2. Re: looking for a scanner and colour printer (Stefan Monnier) > 3. Re: looking for a scanner and colour printer (Stephane Bakhos) > 4. Re: looking for a scanner and colour printer (Hendrik Boom) > 5. Re: looking for a scanner and colour printer (Hendrik Boom) > 6. Re: looking for a scanner and colour printer (Stephane Bakhos) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 19:39:46 -0400 > From: Peter <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [MLUG] looking for a scanner and colour printer > To: Leslie S Satenstein <[email protected]>, Montreal Linux Users > Group <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <CADL7PvgsCL+AR+iY+sXVxgppBZ_rj6_c0=77wjkop6pj4z6...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > have been using HP products for at least 10 years on linux. hplip > comes by default with ubuntu, at least. when I use the simple scan > utility that comes by default, it just finds my scanner. My scanner > is hard wired to the LAN. I think going for a network scanner is > likely safer than USB. CUPS is pretty well known/implemented, so > anything with a network interface is likely to work out of the box. > They're all cheap now. > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 21:11:09 -0400 > From: Stefan Monnier <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [MLUG] looking for a scanner and colour printer > To: Montreal Linux Users Group <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain > >> What I want to know is, which ones work well with Linux these days, >> which are affordable, and which ones are really *good*. > > I can't tell you what's good or what's cheap, but in terms of support > for GNU/Linux, HP has been and seems to still be the king of the hill. > > Various other manufacturers provide support as well, but it seems most > of them do so with proprietary drivers. I've heard rumors that Brother > has seen the light, but haven't been able to confirm (e.g. I can't seem > to find them in Debian). > > > Stefan > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 22:33:28 -0400 (EDT) > From: Stephane Bakhos <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [MLUG] looking for a scanner and colour printer > To: Montreal Linux Users Group <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > >>> What I want to know is, which ones work well with Linux these days, >>> which are affordable, and which ones are really *good*. >> >> I can't tell you what's good or what's cheap, but in terms of support >> for GNU/Linux, HP has been and seems to still be the king of the hill. >> >> Various other manufacturers provide support as well, but it seems most >> of them do so with proprietary drivers. I've heard rumors that Brother >> has seen the light, but haven't been able to confirm (e.g. I can't seem >> to find them in Debian). > > Some of Brother's drivers are open source, other are proprietary. > I've been using a MFC-J615W and all functions work over the network. > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 22:47:36 -0400 > From: Hendrik Boom <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [MLUG] looking for a scanner and colour printer > To: Montreal Linux Users Group <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 10:33:28PM -0400, Stephane Bakhos wrote: >> >> Some of Brother's drivers are open source, other are proprietary. >> I've been using a MFC-J615W and all functions work over the network. > > That MFC-J615W -- do you ise open or proprietary drivers? 32 or 64-bit? > > -- hendrik > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 23:04:07 -0400 > From: Hendrik Boom <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [MLUG] looking for a scanner and colour printer > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 04:26:56PM -0700, Leslie S Satenstein wrote: >> I have been using Brother Products since 2004 in a linux environment >> >> Brother has a color laser scanner fax, duplex printer that is affordable.? >> You can get toner refills from a few places that stock the powder or buy >> cartridges from Bureau en Gros. > > I've got a Brother black-and-white laser printer. It's networked, and > talks the appropriate printer protocols for Linux, Windows, and Mac. It > needs no special drivers for Linux, because it uses the standard Unix > protocols over TCP. It understands postscript and pdf. > > But it doesn't do colour, nor does it scan. > > -- hendrik > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 01:12:31 -0400 (EDT) > From: Stephane Bakhos <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [MLUG] looking for a scanner and colour printer > To: Montreal Linux Users Group <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > >>> >>> Some of Brother's drivers are open source, other are proprietary. >>> I've been using a MFC-J615W and all functions work over the network. >> >> That MFC-J615W -- do you ise open or proprietary drivers? 32 or 64-bit? > > Proprietary. It's 32bit. > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca > > > End of mlug Digest, Vol 44, Issue 16 > ************************************ >
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