looking for usb printer/scanner combo

Bernd Walter ticso at cicely12.cicely.de
Mon Mar 29 03:36:11 PST 2004


On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 08:41:50PM +0100, Tobias Roth wrote:
> hi
> 
> i am looking for a color inkjet printer/scanner/copier combo.
> 
> it should be cheap, supported under 5.2.1, rather small, have separate,
> cheaply available ink cartridges. it doesn't need to be fast or have any
> fancy features. price comes first, then quality.
> 
> can someone recommend a model that won't give me any trouble?

Currently FreeBSD doesn't support any of those combos sufficiently.
That is because uscanner always claims the whole device instead of just
the scanner function so ulpt can't take the printing part.
You can detach, kldunload uscanner, reattach for printing, but this is
not very practical.

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