Question for productivity gurus: Are there any multi-functional pieces of equipment (printer/copier/scanner/fax machine, all in one) that work with Linux? My wife is busy arranging the port of a reasonably large network from Windoze to Linux, and this appears to be a major stumbling block. Local equipment vendors claim no such thing exists and that it can't be done. I fume at this (:-)) and insist that anything that can be done on a network can be done with Linux on a network. All help, comments, etc appreciated. Thanks Evan Morris evan@exclusivebooks.com +27 11 792 2777 (tel) +27 11 792 2711 (fax)
On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 11:12:41AM +0200, Evan Morris wrote: : Question for productivity gurus: : : Are there any multi-functional pieces of equipment : (printer/copier/scanner/fax machine, all in one) that work with Linux? : : My wife is busy arranging the port of a reasonably large network from : Windoze to Linux, and this appears to be a major stumbling block. Local : equipment vendors claim no such thing exists and that it can't be done. I : fume at this (:-)) and insist that anything that can be done on a network : can be done with Linux on a network. : : All help, comments, etc appreciated. You're probably out of luck. The all-in-one jobbies usually do everything via software, and thus win-drivers. However, feel free to check out <http://www.linuxprinting.org/>. The equipment you're using may be one of the multi's not listed as a "paperweight". --Jerry Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death... ...It's much more important than that!
Evan Morris wrote:
Question for productivity gurus:
Are there any multi-functional pieces of equipment (printer/copier/scanner/fax machine, all in one) that work with Linux?
unfortunately...printing support on linux/unix still leaves alot to be desired. Have you looked at using CUPS and getting the ESP PRO version? Basically, if you can get a postscript PPD file for the printer, CUPS should be able to work with it. www.cups.org good luck, Oskar
My wife is busy arranging the port of a reasonably large network from Windoze to Linux, and this appears to be a major stumbling block. Local equipment vendors claim no such thing exists and that it can't be done. I fume at this (:-)) and insist that anything that can be done on a network can be done with Linux on a network.
All help, comments, etc appreciated.
Thanks
Evan Morris evan@exclusivebooks.com +27 11 792 2777 (tel) +27 11 792 2711 (fax)
On Thursday 08 May 2003 10:12 am, Evan Morris wrote:
Question for productivity gurus:
Are there any multi-functional pieces of equipment (printer/copier/scanner/fax machine, all in one) that work with Linux?
My wife is busy arranging the port of a reasonably large network from Windoze to Linux, and this appears to be a major stumbling block. Local equipment vendors claim no such thing exists and that it can't be done. I fume at this (:-)) and insist that anything that can be done on a network can be done with Linux on a network.
The all in one requirement might break this. If you could repartition the problem, it could well be do-able. For example I use an HP Laserjet 1220 [not deskjet] and after some battles with Samba and CUPS, this prints well and photocopies. It will also scan, but I have not got round to that yet. Plus for your application it is not flat bed, which you might require. Having this unit, if I wanted to fax I would then look for Linux applications to print scanned images and do general printing to fax. [Not that I would, because I think faxes are quaint] If the network already has a machine running print services, it would only need a fax modem, plus some equivalent to the HP 1220 HTH Vince Littler
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