Adam I can probably answer the second part regarding wireless but would be interested in reading responses to the first part from others because I too have to go down a similar path shortly - we have a Samsung ML-2010 Laser Printer on my wife's Windows 7 PC that works fine (providing her PC is on) as a network printer in CUPS on all my (Gentoo) Linux machines but I also have a Canon USB scanner that does not seem work at all in Linux - Canon are renowned for being exceptionally closed source when it comes to drivers for their hardware.
For the wireless side of things, I would have thought that would be irrelevant to the Linux machines since the printer will make its own connection to your wireless router and from a Linux perspective just appear as another network printer that's the same as a wired Ethernet one would be. So I think the only thing you need to check on, from a printing perspective, is that CUPS supports that particular printer. Not sure I can help much with the scanner side of things but, again, I assume part of it is ensuring that SANE supports it first. But like I said, I will be watching replies here intently as I need to get a new printer and scanner setup soon also! Regards Peter On 26 July 2011 18:38, AdamC <kab...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm looking at purchasing a scanner and thought I may as well go up to > date and get a built in printer too (my ageing HP Desktop is > struggling with the heavier use that wife and kids are giving it). > > My main reason for purchasing the scanner functionality is to become > more paper free and store documents digitally, so ideally, I'd like a > quick scanner which is easy to set up and can get through documents > quickly. > > I've been looking on Amazon and have just realised that most printers > are now wireless. We have Linux machines and windows machine in the > house, so I'd like it to talk to all machines over the network but am > not sure how I'd go about configuring the machine on Linux through > wifi. > > I've looked at this one: Brother DCP-J315W [0] which is well within my > budget and seems to have good reviews. Does anyone have any experience > of setting up Brother wireless printers with ubuntu? Is it easy? Are > there any pitfalls I should be prepared for? Does anyone know if this > scanner/printer works through a wireless connection? > > I've checked the SANE website but didn't find this particular > printer/scanner. [1] > > Does anyone have any experience of any printer/scanner that they could > recommend for a multi OS environment? I'm also interested in the cost > of the ink, so wouldn't want to get an expensive to run printer. > > Thanks in advance > > Adam > > > [0] > http://www.amazon.co.uk/Brother-DCP-J315W-Wireless-Multifunction-Printer/dp/B0041X9NQ4/ref=sr_1_6?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1311698761&sr=1-6 > [1] http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#Z-BROTHER > -- > -- > You back your data up on the same planet? > http://www.monkeez.org > PGP key: 0x7111B833 > > -- > Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk > Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire > LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------- >
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