Hi folks, I thought i'd just share a success story with some new hardware we bought. The device is an HP OfficeJet Pro L7380. RRP is $299 but we picked one up for considerably less than that on eBay.
After doing all of the usual unfastening of tape from every nook & cranny in the device, and running the printer alignment, we plugged it into my wife's desktop machine, running Ubuntu hardy (8.04 LTS). CUPS found the device and installed a queue for it automatically, XSane started immediately, gave two warnings about the device being busy, and after that worked perfectly with zero configuration. Everything we've done with the machine has worked really well so far: scan quality is great, printing is fast, and copying works as advertised (we haven't tried faxing or batch scanning with the document feeder yet). And all of this was without ever having to install a driver disk! Well done Ubuntu and the Free Software community, and well done HP for making a device that works perfectly out of the box with CUPS & SANE! I've always been a fan of HP printers, and this experience has reinforced my fanboyism. Paul P.S. A very helpful resource for me in selecting an MFP model was http://hplip.sourceforge.net/supported_devices/ -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
