Hello, On Nov 22 18:02 Dr. Ing. Joaquin Sosa wrote (excerpt):
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:34, Haro de Grauw
wrote: Of course, if you are talking about larger machines, the "big guys" like Xerox, Ricoh, and Océ come into play. Notice that Océ was recently bought by Canon, and as others have pointed out, Canon has not been the most Linux-friendly company.
All of the proper big machines are going to have PostScript support. They are going to work with no issues on Linux, Mac, etc. Worst case you need to install the Windows driver on a Windows PC and extract the .ppd file.
The question was not only about a printer but about a multi function device (i.e. at least a printer/scanner/copier). In this case one needs a scanner driver for Linux if the device is connected directly to the Linux workstation (usually via USB), see http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Configuring_Scanners If the device is connected via network, have a look at "Scanning via Network" in http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Configuring_Scanners Regarding network connection via a small printserver box: For scanning you need a full bidirectional communication between computer and device. Usual printserver boxes provide only some kind of unidirectional data transfer from the computer to the device so that plain printing usually works but usually nothing else. As far as I know only HP Jetdirect printservers for HP devices provide additionally some SNMP stuff to get HP device status and whatever else is needed so that in particular HP's own HPLIP printer/scanner driver software can use HP all-in-one devices for printing, device status, scanning, faxing,... See http://hplipopensource.com/node/287 ------------------------------------------------------------------- HP Linux imaging and printing What network print servers are supported? Answer: Currently we have only tested HP JetDirect devices with HPLIP. No other network print servers are supported. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Also see my older mail (the URLs therein may be outdated): http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2008-09/msg00090.html I don't know to what extent Linux drivers from other manufactures work. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH -- Maxfeldstrasse 5 -- 90409 Nuernberg -- Germany HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendoerffer