[plug] Printer-Scanner-Copier

[Milan Pospisil]

On 6/15/06, Gavin Chester  wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 19:59 +0800, Matt Kemner wrote:

> > > snip<

> > Anything HP tends to have great Linux support.
> >
>
> fwiw, I can only echo that advice about sticking with HP.  E.g., I'm yet
> to put it to the test, but my son has a HP PSC 1410 multi-function and
> when we googled on it the reports were that printing was good, but
> scanning iffy.  The reports didn't talk about using SANE for the
> scanner, but that should solve the problem.  The other thing showing in
> its favour was that I found both FC4 and SuSE 10.1 had a driver for his
> device, so everything should be okay :-/   As Matt said, check
> linuxprinting.org for whatever device you're considering, but be
> prepared for a bit of configuration :-).  BTW, you might expect that
> some of the device options avail in windoze won't be avail in linux :-(
>
> Gavin

Thanks for the advice. I have looked at HP PSC1610 and HP
Photosmart2570, both suppose to work with Linux after some tweaking.
I guess looking for something just plug and play might be a bit
optimistic expectation, ATM...

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