What is a good printer/all-in-one?

2008-03-25 Thread Isaac Mushinsky
My 10-year-old deskjet being out of ink and probably not worth a replacement cartridge (it works, but makes some mechanical noise lately), I am considering a reasonable replacement, preferably with scanning/copy possibilities. I tried to get Photosmart C4280, but while I was trying a faulty

Re: What is a good printer/all-in-one?

2008-03-25 Thread herbert langhans
Hi Isaac, this is a good start: http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting In the 'printer' section you find a ranking and evaluation how the printers do on unixoid systems. Cheers herbs mount -t wbush /dev/whitehouse /dev/nul On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:12:52 -0400 Isaac Mushinsky [EMAIL

Re: What is a good printer/all-in-one?

2008-03-25 Thread Isaac Mushinsky
Yes, I saw that. But FreeBSD is not linux, and using multiple drivers for the same device is more of a problem for us. HPLIP, on the other hand, requires bare ugen, not loading ulpt or uscanner or perhaps even umass, a very unnatural and cumbersome thing for me (I want umass, and I also sometimes

Re: What is a good printer/all-in-one?

2008-03-25 Thread Lars Eighner
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Isaac Mushinsky wrote: Yes, I saw that. But FreeBSD is not linux, and using multiple drivers for the same device is more of a problem for us. HPLIP, on the other hand, requires bare ugen, not loading ulpt or uscanner or perhaps even umass, a very unnatural and cumbersome

Re: What is a good printer/all-in-one?

2008-03-25 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Lars Eighner wrote: On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Isaac Mushinsky wrote: Yes, I saw that. But FreeBSD is not linux, and using multiple drivers for the same device is more of a problem for us. HPLIP, on the other hand, requires bare ugen, not loading ulpt or uscanner or perhaps even umass, a very