Re: all-in-one ink printer : looking for recommendations

2008-03-16 Thread Boaz Rymland
Hi, Thanks all for the replies. I can summarize my pearls of wisdom here: - I learned that HP has very good Linux support. With the popularity of HP in our country (like Subaru/Mazda in cars almost), I think I'll go for an HP. - HP drivers for Windows can indeed be a pain. I've heard

Re: all-in-one ink printer : looking for recommendations

2008-03-16 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, - HP drivers for Windows can indeed be a pain. I've heard feedback from someone I work for that their HP printer (not sure which model) drivers needed 300MB(!) of free disk space to install. That's what I call abusing, but hey - Windows users should not be surprised too much, I

Re: all-in-one ink printer : looking for recommendations

2008-03-16 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 09:51:15AM +0200, Boaz Rymland wrote: - HP drivers for Windows can indeed be a pain. I've heard feedback from someone I work for that their HP printer (not sure which model) drivers needed 300MB(!) of free disk space to install. That's what I call abusing, but hey -

Re: all-in-one ink printer : looking for recommendations

2008-03-16 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
That's not really true. The 300mb package includes all sorts of extras including scanning programs, web publishing, OCR, etc. AFAIK, you can't seperate them from just the printer drivers. Actually you have basically 2 options: 1. You can download the basic package driver from HP's web

Re: all-in-one ink printer : looking for recommendations

2008-03-13 Thread Dotan Shavit
HP OfficeJet 5610 I'm very happy with it. # On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Boaz Rymland wrote: Hi, I'm looking into buying an all-in-one printer. I'll probably go for ink printer since I don't print too much and printing color output would be useful. The required/preferred specs are: -

Re: all-in-one ink printer : looking for recommendations

2008-03-13 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
On 3/12/08, Boaz Rymland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm looking into buying an all-in-one printer. I have had an HP (6213, I believe - I am not next to it so i can't check) for quite some time. I'll probably go for ink printer since I don't print too much and printing color output

all-in-one ink printer : looking for recommendations

2008-03-12 Thread Boaz Rymland
Hi, I'm looking into buying an all-in-one printer. I'll probably go for ink printer since I don't print too much and printing color output would be useful. The required/preferred specs are: - having good printer drivers under Linux. - working scanner functionality under Linux is highly

Re: all-in-one ink printer : looking for recommendations

2008-03-12 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 02:15:52PM +0200, Boaz Rymland wrote: - having good printer drivers under Linux. Fairly easy to find. - working scanner functionality under Linux is highly desirable. Look up the SANE pages. Pay special attention to features you want or need. For example one scanner

Re: all-in-one ink printer : looking for recommendations

2008-03-12 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 12/03/2008, Boaz Rymland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm looking into buying an all-in-one printer. I'll probably go for ink printer since I don't print too much and printing color output would be useful. The required/preferred specs are: - having good printer drivers under Linux.

Re: all-in-one ink printer : looking for recommendations

2008-03-12 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 14:15 +0200, Boaz Rymland wrote: Hi, I'm looking into buying an all-in-one printer. I'll probably go for ink printer since I don't print too much and printing color output would be useful. Avoid Epson Stylus CX3200 and similar printers. While all of its functions

Re: all-in-one ink printer : looking for recommendations

2008-03-12 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 12/03/2008, Omer Zak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Avoid Epson Stylus CX3200 and similar printers. While all of its functions work under Linux, it was designed to waste ink. Each power cycling wastes some ink. Also, its ink cartridges contain a chip preventing them from refilled. If

Re: all-in-one ink printer : looking for recommendations

2008-03-12 Thread Oron Peled
On Wednesday, 12 בMarch 2008, Boaz Rymland wrote: Hi, I'm looking into buying an all-in-one printer. ... If you can share some of your experience that would be great! Generally, all HP printers are supported in Linux. I currently have an Officejet-6313 and before that had an PSC series one

Re: all-in-one ink printer : looking for recommendations

2008-03-12 Thread Amos Shapira
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:00 AM, Ori Idan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am working with HP psc2210 I am not sure if they manufacture it now but I am sure there are other models in the psc series. As much as I know all these models are supported under Linux. It has a fax/scanner The scanner works