[plug] Printer-Scanner-Copier

[Milan Pospisil]

On 6/15/06, Alex Nordstrom  wrote:
> Thursday, 15 June 2006 21:30, Gavin Chester wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I use the 1410. No problems scanning (Sane through Gimp or Kooka) or
> printing (Cups). (OCR'ed some scanned text just fine too.) Really easy
> to set up (as I recall, install aptitude install hplip and configure
> everything through the KDE Control Centre).

OK, that sounds good. BTW which distro are you using?

> Avoid Lexmark, and not just for the sake of compatibility.

Yes, I have heard about that too and from several different sources...  :-(

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