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

[Isaac Mushinsky]

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).

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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