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

[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 thing for me (I want umass, and I also
> sometimes use a Nikon photo film scanner, which work via sane).

You can use umass devices with HPLIP, but you must load umass after the
printer has attached as a ugen device.  Then you can attach and detach umass
devices as much as you please.  You seem to imply there is a conflict
between uscanner devices, but I don't see what that conflict might be. 
Uscanner will not grab the scanner function of a multifunction printer with
hplip.  It doesn't appear there is a conflict of executable names either.

>
> Thus I am looking for a network device, or if USB, then it should appear as
> separate uscanner/ulpt/umass.
>
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 1:08 PM, herbert langhans <herbert.raimund at gmx.net>
> wrote:
>
>> 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" <itz at mushinsky.net> wrote:
>>
>> > 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
>> printcap on
>>> it, it lost its mind permanently (says 'incompatible print cartridges',
>> and
>>> does not respond to the button combinations that HP support thinks
>> should
>>> reset it). Besides, you can either attach it as ulpt or uscanner device,
>> or
>>> play with hplip drivers as a generic device, but it seems too
>>> confusing. It was a waste of time and money for me and I am going to
>> return
>>> it.
>>>
>>> Requirements:
>>> 1. Reasonable physical size (should not be much larger than the old
>>> deskjet).
>>> 2. Either network/lpd or USB, scanner should be well supported by sane.
>> If
>>> used via USB, it should be a compound device (i.e. printer, scanner and,
>> if
>>> there, the umass device should appear as separate devices to avoid
>>> kld-loading and unloading modules). I heard Epsons show up as compound
>>> devices? any HP laserjets?
>>> 3. Reasonable maintenance cost (maybe a laser printer, I do not care for
>>> color printing that much).
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