Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

2013-08-18 Thread ronys
Greetings, My trusty HP all-in-one has finally gone to the great bit-bucket in the sky after one of the scanner lid hinges broke, and I'm looking for a replacement. This is for home use: Color printing is required by family members. Other than that, I'd like network connectivity (pref. via

Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

2013-08-18 Thread Omer Zak
I would say that today it's anything but HP - unless things changed for the better during the last two or so years. I am an happy user of the Brother MFC-490W printer-FAX-scanner-copier. --- Omer On Sun, 2013-08-18 at 10:29 +0300, ronys wrote: Greetings, My trusty HP all-in-one has

OOPS, I meant MFC-490CW (Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?)

2013-08-18 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 2013-08-18 at 10:41 +0300, Omer Zak wrote: I would say that today it's anything but HP - unless things changed for the better during the last two or so years. I am an happy user of the Brother MFC-490W printer-FAX-scanner-copier. OOPS, I

Re: OOPS, I meant MFC-490CW (Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?)

2013-08-18 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
I have it the other way around. I really like the HP All in one and their hplip Linux package which does almost anything that the Windows drivers do - and more (yay, Python scripting ;) ). Furthermore, HP is only company which actually DO give support for their Linux drivers with the printers,

Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

2013-08-18 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 18/08/13 10:41, Omer Zak wrote: I would say that today it's anything but HP - unless things changed for the better during the last two or so years. Please elaborate. Shachar ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il

Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

2013-08-18 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 18/08/13 10:29, ronys wrote: Greetings, My trusty HP all-in-one has finally gone to the great bit-bucket in the sky after one of the scanner lid hinges broke, and I'm looking for a replacement. This is for home use: Color printing is required by family members. Other than that, I'd like

Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

2013-08-18 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
ronys ro...@gmx.net writes: My trusty HP all-in-one has finally gone to the great bit-bucket in the sky after one of the scanner lid hinges broke, and I'm looking for a replacement. This is for home use: Color printing is required by family members. Other than that, I'd like network

Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] Command-line utilities: Tips and tricks (part II) -- Eli Billauer

2013-08-18 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Amos Shapira wrote on Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 08:46:02 +1000: And the list goes on and on. Some of the odd corners of shell syntax are quite useful in interactive usage. For example: % (){ foo $1 bar } 24 to run a command several times (recalling it from history) and change some parameter around

Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

2013-08-18 Thread Oron Peled
On Sunday 18 August 2013 10:41:38 Omer Zak wrote: I would say that today it's anything but HP - unless things changed for the better during the last two or so years. Really? Let's debunk this baseless paragraph... * I'll start with personal and therefore anecdotal experience: - HP

Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] Command-line utilities: Tips and tricks (part II) -- Eli Billauer

2013-08-18 Thread Michael Shiloh
On 08/18/2013 02:08 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: Some of the odd corners of shell syntax are quite useful in interactive usage. For example: % (){ foo $1 bar } 24 to run a command several times (recalling it from history) and change some parameter around the middle of the command line without