Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?
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 Ethernet, not WiFi), and of course Linux-friendliness. Back in the day, the consensus was anything but Lexmark. Has this changed? Thanks, Rony -- Ubi dubium, ibi libertas (where there is doubt, there is freedom) ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?
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 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 Ethernet, not WiFi), and of course Linux-friendliness. Back in the day, the consensus was anything but Lexmark. Has this changed? -- One does not make peace with enemies. One makes peace with former enemies. My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which I may be affiliated in any way. WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
OOPS, I meant MFC-490CW (Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?)
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 meant Brother MFC-490CW. -- I am the Cochlear Corporation of the Borg. All resistance is futile. Deaf Culture is irrelevant. YOU SHALL BE IMPLANTED. My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which I may be affiliated in any way. WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: OOPS, I meant MFC-490CW (Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?)
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, something which I didn't find with any other vendor. see this: http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/support.html תודה, חץ בן חמו חץ ביז- שרותי פרילאנס לניהול ותחזוקת שרתי Linux ופתרונות וירטואליזציה. טלפון: 054-5297156 אתם מוזמנים לבקר אותנו בבלוג היעוץ שלנו 2013/8/18 Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il: 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 meant Brother MFC-490CW. -- I am the Cochlear Corporation of the Borg. All resistance is futile. Deaf Culture is irrelevant. YOU SHALL BE IMPLANTED. My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which I may be affiliated in any way. WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?
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 http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?
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 network connectivity (pref. via Ethernet, not WiFi), and of course Linux-friendliness. Back in the day, the consensus was anything but Lexmark. Has this changed? Thanks, Rony Linux prints using CUPS. This is Common Unix Printing System. It is written by Apple, and is the way Mac OS X prints as well. Due to the increased popularity of Mac machines lately (justified or not is a discussion I won't go into right now), things should be fairly good all round. Shachar ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?
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 connectivity (pref. via Ethernet, not WiFi), and of course Linux-friendliness. I got myself a new printer/scanner for exactly the same reason a few weeks ago. I don't know where anything but HP comes from. I got another HP, and just like the previous one it worked right out of the box, no issues whatsoever. Other makes should also be fine, but I'd regard HP as among the best in the pack, practically guaranteed to work without any configuration effort, and they have a wide range of models to suit every need. E.g., I don't need a fax and I found that a printer/scanner without a fax was quite a bit cheaper. And models often come in pairs with and without Wi-Fi - if you don't need Wi-Fi it will also be noticeably cheaper. Ink will likely dominate your long term expenses, anyway. I am not even sure mine's got an Ethernet port and I am too lazy to check. I just plugged it into a USB port of one of my computers and started a CUPS server on it, and I can print from anywere (check the firewall rules on the server though). Make sure to find out whether the box includes a USB cable - mine didn't, but I reused the one from the old printer. One thing to check is whether the printer turns itself off when idle. My new printer does - apparently the idea is that it's a personal device that is nearby, and you are supposed to press a button when you need to print or scan. It's no problem for me, but if your house is large your mileage may vary. Literally. At some point you'll need to go to the printer to pick up the pages, anyway, but having to do it each time before clicking Print still looks kinda silly. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] Command-line utilities: Tips and tricks (part II) -- Eli Billauer
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 the middle of the command line without having to
scroll to it every time.
% grep $smtp_id *(om[1,5])
to grep the 5 most recent log files.
I suppose bash has its own syntax for that but I don't know what it is.
Daniel
(naturally, I don't use these in scripts #!ed to plain sh)
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Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?
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 LaserJet-5L (yes, in the 90's) -- still with old 'lpr' - Later two HP-DeskJet's -- forgot which exact models - Than an All-In-One (HP-PSC-1210, USB connection) - Currently an All-In-One HP-OfficeJet-6313 (Using Ethernet) In terms of Linux support: - HP maintains HPLIP support since ~2005 - All is FOSS (GPLv2, BSD, MIT) - As a result, it's included in all major distributions. - So it works out of the box. - It supports all functions: - Printing (via CUPS) - Scanning (via a SANE plugin, so you can scan directly from LibreOffice, Gimp, etc.) - Faxing (scanning + some glue FOSS code in python). - Reading ink-levels, calibrating, etc. - If you encounter bugs, your distro developers can actually do something about it. Here are HPLIP bugs for Fedora/RHEL: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=hplip I am an happy user of the Brother MFC-490W printer-FAX-scanner-copier. * Can you enlighten us where did you get the drivers? (for ALL functions). * I did google'd and found deb/rpm BINARIES for this printer in Brother's site. * Are there FOSS-licensed sources? (not hidden behind click-walls) -- this is the only interesting question. Bye, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron Software is like Entropy: it's hard to grasp, weighs nothing and obeys the Second Law of Thermodynamics, i.e. it always increases -- Norman Augustine ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] Command-line utilities: Tips and tricks (part II) -- Eli Billauer
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 having to
scroll to it every time.
wait, can you explain this?
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