Re: OT: ink jet printers

2021-07-14 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2021-07-14 at 12:20 +0200, Bob Marcan wrote: > Canon Inkjet cannot be used without working printing part. > Forgot the model. M-something. > It means, even empty cartridge will prevent using scanner. > You can find a lot of funny videos about that on YT. > Our family scraped 3. They was bou

Re: OT: ink jet printers

2021-07-14 Thread mcgarrett
> On July 14, 2021 at 4:48 PM Robin Laing wrote: > > > On 06/07/2021 09:57, Greg Woods wrote: > > Well, not completely OT because I do need one that will work on Fedora. > > > > I have found a number of ink jet all-in-ones that work well on Fedora, > > from Epson, HP, and Brother. The problem

Re: OT: ink jet printers

2021-07-14 Thread Robin Laing
On 06/07/2021 09:57, Greg Woods wrote: Well, not completely OT because I do need one that will work on Fedora. I have found a number of ink jet all-in-ones that work well on Fedora, from Epson, HP, and Brother. The problem is that I don't use the printer all that much, and every single one of

Re: OT: ink jet printers

2021-07-14 Thread Bob Marcan
On Thu, 8 Jul 2021 17:09:12 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jul 2021 15:54:16 -0500 (CDT) > Michael Hennebry wrote: > > > I have an HP Photosmart that scans just fine under F33. > > Actually, out of curiosity, I tried xsane again after assuming > it was hopeless for the last few years. I

Re: OT: ink jet printers

2021-07-13 Thread Richard England
On 7/13/21 4:50 PM, mcgarrett wrote: On July 10, 2021 at 5:38 PM Richard England wrote: On 7/6/21 8:57 AM, Greg Woods wrote: Well, not completely OT because I do need one that will work on Fedora. /snip/ Question #2 is, are any of the all-in-one laser printers any good and work (all func

Re: OT: ink jet printers

2021-07-13 Thread mcgarrett
> On July 10, 2021 at 5:38 PM Richard England wrote: > > > On 7/6/21 8:57 AM, Greg Woods wrote: > > Well, not completely OT because I do need one that will work on Fedora. > > > /snip/ Question #2 > > is, are any of the all-in-one laser printers any good and work (all > > functions) with Fe

Re: OT: ink jet printers

2021-07-11 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2021-07-10 at 14:38 -0700, Richard England wrote: > Gave up on inkjets due to clogging issues with low usage. Went with > HP M283cdw. Color, scanner, copier, fax, and prints from a USB > thumbdrive. Have you ever tried printing from a file on a USB drive? My HP P3015 printer also offer

Re: OT: ink jet printers

2021-07-10 Thread Richard England
On 7/6/21 8:57 AM, Greg Woods wrote: Well, not completely OT because I do need one that will work on Fedora. I have found a number of ink jet all-in-ones that work well on Fedora, from Epson, HP, and Brother. The problem is that I don't use the printer all that much, and every single one of th

Re: OT: ink jet printers

2021-07-08 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2021-07-08 at 17:09 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > The scanner also works better now since I found a maintenance manual > online and figured out how to get the top of the scanner off so > I could clean years worth of out-gassing fog off the inside of the > glass :-). I had to periodically cle

Re: OT: ink jet printers

2021-07-08 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 8 Jul 2021 15:54:16 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: > I have an HP Photosmart that scans just fine under F33. Actually, out of curiosity, I tried xsane again after assuming it was hopeless for the last few years. It actually recognized my old Epson Artisan 725 and can scan things now

Re: OT: ink jet printers

2021-07-08 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 6 Jul 2021, Tom Horsley wrote: I've pretty much given up on linux and scanning. My current all-in-one Epson Artisan 725 claimed to have a linux driver, but it never worked. I do all my scanning on a windows (the Epson is a network device) virtual machine, and save the scanned images to a

Re: OT: ink jet printers

2021-07-07 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2021-07-07 at 11:51 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > now I'm thinking I need to print a test page from time to > time to make sure it will be available when needed. CRON job of things to do; print this test page -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.31.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jun 10 13:

Re: OT: ink jet printers

2021-07-07 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2021-07-07 at 16:35 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Further to the above, if you donĀ“t actually require colour printing > (and almost no-one really does) there is no upside to getting an ink- > jet printer. Monochrome lasers are more reliable and cheaper in the > long run. I tend to ag

Re: OT: ink jet printers

2021-07-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2021-07-06 at 17:37 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 06 Jul 2021 22:31:35 +0100 > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > I have a wireless Brother laser all-in-one that I use on a daily > > basis > > and has been working since 2014 on Fedora. You just download a > > tarfile > > from their sup

Re: OT: ink jet printers

2021-07-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2021-07-06 at 22:31 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2021-07-06 at 09:57 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: > > Well, not completely OT because I do need one that will work on > > Fedora. > > > > I have found a number of ink jet all-in-ones that work well on > > Fedora, from > > Epson, HP

Re: OT: ink jet printers

2021-07-07 Thread George N. White III
On Tue, 6 Jul 2021 at 12:58, Greg Woods wrote: > Well, not completely OT because I do need one that will work on Fedora. > > I have found a number of ink jet all-in-ones that work well on Fedora, > from > Epson, HP, and Brother. The problem is that I don't use the printer all > that > much, and e

Re: OT: ink jet printers

2021-07-07 Thread James Szinger
On Wed, 7 Jul 2021 07:55:21 +0200 Peter Boy wrote: > > Am 07.07.2021 um 00:33 schrieb James Szinger : > > > > On Tue, 6 Jul 2021 09:57:47 -0600 > > Greg Woods wrote: > > > >> Question #2 is, are any of the all-in-one laser printers any good > >> and work (all functions) with Fedora Linux?

RE: OT: ink jet printers

2021-07-07 Thread J.Witvliet--- via users
See far below/ -Original Message- From: Tim via users Sent: Wednesday, July 7, 2021 9:45 AM To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Cc: Tim Subject: Re: OT: ink jet printers On Tue, 2021-07-06 at 12:32 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > If you go with a color laser, be aware that

Re: OT: ink jet printers

2021-07-07 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2021-07-06 at 17:36 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > I've pretty much given up on linux and scanning. My current all-in- > one Epson Artisan 725 claimed to have a linux driver, but it never > worked. I do all my scanning on a windows (the Epson is a network > device) virtual machine, and save th

Re: OT: ink jet printers

2021-07-07 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2021-07-06 at 12:32 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > If you go with a color laser, be aware that the toner > cartridges they send (starter toner) is only 10% > filled and you will run out very quickly. Bloody hell! How do these companies get away with such crapola? I only use an ol

Re: OT: ink jet printers

2021-07-06 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 2021-07-06 at 17:36:13 Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 06 Jul 2021 17:18:19 -0400 > Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > > This shows very, very scant HP support. Who should I believe? > > I've pretty much given up on linux and scanning. My current all-in-one > Epson Artisan 725 claimed to have a linux

Re: OT: ink jet printers

2021-07-06 Thread Peter Boy
> Am 07.07.2021 um 00:33 schrieb James Szinger : > > On Tue, 6 Jul 2021 09:57:47 -0600 > Greg Woods wrote: > >> Question #2 is, are any of the all-in-one laser printers any good and >> work (all functions) with Fedora Linux? > > I currently have an HP Color LaserJet MFP M477fdw. It prints gr

Re: OT: ink jet printers

2021-07-06 Thread James Szinger
On Tue, 6 Jul 2021 09:57:47 -0600 Greg Woods wrote: > Well, not completely OT because I do need one that will work on > Fedora. > > I have found a number of ink jet all-in-ones that work well on > Fedora, from Epson, HP, and Brother. The problem is that I don't use > the printer all that much, a

Re: OT: ink jet printers

2021-07-06 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 06 Jul 2021 22:31:35 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I have a wireless Brother laser all-in-one that I use on a daily basis > and has been working since 2014 on Fedora. You just download a tarfile > from their support page and run it to set the thing up. Both scanner > and printer work.

Re: OT: ink jet printers

2021-07-06 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 06 Jul 2021 17:18:19 -0400 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > This shows very, very scant HP support. Who should I believe? I've pretty much given up on linux and scanning. My current all-in-one Epson Artisan 725 claimed to have a linux driver, but it never worked. I do all my scanning on a windows

Re: OT: ink jet printers

2021-07-06 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2021-07-06 at 09:57 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: > Well, not completely OT because I do need one that will work on > Fedora. > > I have found a number of ink jet all-in-ones that work well on > Fedora, from > Epson, HP, and Brother. The problem is that I don't use the printer > all > that much

Re: OT: ink jet printers

2021-07-06 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Greg Woods writes: So, is there any such thing as an all-in-one ink jet printer that does not suffer from this problem if it is not used regularly? Question #2 is, are any of the all-in-one laser printers any good and work (all functions) with Fedora Linux? I think that a laser printer is

Re: OT: ink jet printers

2021-07-06 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 7/6/21 10:19 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 09:57:47AM -0600, Greg Woods wrote: Well, not completely OT because I do need one that will work on Fedora. I have found a number of ink jet all-in-ones that work well on Fedora, from Epson, HP, and Brother. The problem is that I

Re: OT: ink jet printers

2021-07-06 Thread Bob Marcan
On Tue, 6 Jul 2021 09:57:47 -0600 Greg Woods wrote: > Well, not completely OT because I do need one that will work on Fedora. > > I have found a number of ink jet all-in-ones that work well on Fedora, from > Epson, HP, and Brother. The problem is that I don't use the printer all > that much, and

Re: OT: ink jet printers

2021-07-06 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 09:57:47AM -0600, Greg Woods wrote: Well, not completely OT because I do need one that will work on Fedora. I have found a number of ink jet all-in-ones that work well on Fedora, from Epson, HP, and Brother. The problem is that I don't use the printer all that much, and e

Re: OT: ink jet printers

2021-07-06 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 07 Jul 2021 02:05:25 +0930 Tim via users wrote: > I believe some people have good luck with the Brother brand, too. My ancient Brother is going strong, and even prints nice and crisp again since I recently replaced both of the "consumable" cartridges. But it is just a printer, not an all-

Re: OT: ink jet printers

2021-07-06 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2021-07-06 at 09:57 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: > I have found a number of ink jet all-in-ones that work well on > Fedora, from Epson, HP, and Brother. The problem is that I don't use > the printer all that much, and every single one of them eventually > (after I've had it for a few months) de

OT: ink jet printers

2021-07-06 Thread Greg Woods
Well, not completely OT because I do need one that will work on Fedora. I have found a number of ink jet all-in-ones that work well on Fedora, from Epson, HP, and Brother. The problem is that I don't use the printer all that much, and every single one of them eventually (after I've had it for a fe