I haven't done anything scanner-wise yet, but I just got an HP Laserjet 1200se, which is doing great: 1200dpi, postscript compatible, parallel or USB (haven't bothered with the USB). Running under potato 2.2r3, I use lpd and magicfilter; I modified psonly600-filter by changing all instances of 600 to 1200, and it works great. Took all of 10 minutes to get it working.
ap ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Henry House wrote: > On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 02:17:43PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [...] > > I was considering one of those combo units with the printer and scanner > > together - preferably flat bed scanner, so I can do photocopying if > > really needed. > > I have no experience with these. I'm rather suspicious of them though --- too > trendy. > > > What experiences do people have with these? I have been looking at the > > HP ones but the scanner drivers seem heavily in development. > > I have used two scanners, both scsi: Epson Perfection 636 (used, ~$70) and HP > ScanJet IIp (very old). Both worked without trouble using Sane. > > > Is it advisable to stick with laser printers so that you have ps > > capability straight off? > > Most lasers are not PS, unless they are from Apple or Xerox. HP lasers are > generally well-supported and of good quality. I will neven again buy an > inkjet because they wear out quickly and the output does not look as nice as > laser output. (I don't care about color, either.) > > -- > Henry House > OpenPGP key available from http://romana.hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc >