On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 21:20 +1000, Simon wrote: > My Canon Printer/Scanner combo recently died and apparently it's cheaper > for the warranty company to offer me a cheque for $103 rather than fix > the thing. What I'm interested in is what printer/scanner combos others > have had success with under Ubuntu. > > The cannon functioned but only just. I could only print at 600dpi.
Canon don't have a good track record of supporting FOSS. > It doesn't really matter how the scanner functions under linux as the > machine will be attached to a Windows box and I'll be printing to it via > samba. (Unless someone can explain how I can hook the printer/scanner > up to my file/print server [Ubuntu Hardy] and print *and* scan with it > from both Windows *and* Ubuntu) I have a HP Officejet J5780 which works well - with FOSS drivers bundled in ubuntu. It priced at around $180+ on staticice.com.au (comparison shopping site). I have used it connected directly to my ubuntu laptop in the past. Now it is networked via a Debian etch box so all my machines can print and scan files on it. The ADF is handy for network scanning. I haven't tried the fax on it, mainly due to me being to lazy to get under the house to run another cable for it. I would probably use hylafax for a "fax machine" anyway. Cheers Dave -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
