Recommendations for "All-in-One" device?

[Danny Pansters]

s/gphoto/sane/

Duh :)

On Sunday 27 March 2005 00:53, Danny Pansters wrote:
> On Saturday 19 March 2005 13:29, Brian J. McGovern wrote:
> > I'm currently in the market for an "All-in-One" device for the home
> > network, mostly for the fax functionality (it'll be replacing an Canon
> > scanner and Okidata 810e laser printer). Before anyone suggests their
> > favorite FreeBSD Fax modem/app, I'll let it be known that I've been told
> > that the expectation is that we'll have a "normal" looking/working fax
> > machine for the house ;)
> >
> > I've searched the mailing lists for "All-in-One", and tried searches on
> > printers, scanners, copiers, and faxes individually with no real good
> > hits.
> >
> > I'm somewhat curious about the HPs, but wanted to get people's
> > experiences with different devices, and what works/doesn't work with
> > FreeBSD.
>
> A bit late, but I remembered seeing this question when I was just about to
> start setting up our Officejet replacement: a HP photosmart 2610
> all-in-one.
>
> We're using it as a network printer/scanner now, it's not connected through
> USB to one box but it can be. It has stand alone fax and scan/copy
> capability. Setup was easy: Install the hpoj and hpijs ports, and cups and
> sane. I used the cups web interface (and the info provided with hpoj or
> from linuxprinting) to set it up (as a client this time, not as a server
> which it was before when the old OfficeJet was connected to this box with a
> parralel cable). Url/Device is a socket: without hpoj/hpijs, with hpoj its
> a ptal device. In the Driver section you should be able to pick your HP
> model. That should be all.
>
> With KDE I can now print to it (as network printer via ptal), scan from it
> with Kooka (via ptal via gphoto), and I'm sure faxing will also work.
> Stand-alone you can just use the flatbed scanner for input, and the printer
> tray for output.
>
> This is an inkjet, with laserjet printing you may not need or want hpijs
> but I think you probably would anyway. It looks like an officejet only
> smaller and a bit slicker. It also supports CF and other cards (from
> cameras), the ptal driver (and the windows version) should present those as
> local scsi disks, but I haven't really sorted that out yet. The
> printing/scanning quality is great. The hpijs and hpoj come from HP BTW.
>
> The thing cost us ~ 340 Euro's, which would be ~ 450 USD. I wanted a
> network capable printer (it has its own console but also a web interface),
> it's just easier to use in a network. If it lasts as long as the officejet
> (I think ~ 7 years) its worth the buck I guess.
>
> HTH,
>
> Dan