[olug] Linux-friendly hardware question - stand-alone FAX machine

[Dan Linder]

Rob,
Thanks for the pointers.  Ironically, my experiences with Brother printers
has been the opposite of yours apparently.   My Brother HL-2700CN is about 4
years old and has never given a single problem.  It's easy to setup on the
network, presents itself in about a half-dozen network printing protocol
standards, and came with refillable toner cartridges.  Sadly my experiences
with HP printers has been mixed.  I agree that they are bullet-proof, but my
experiences with the price-per-page of their ink cartridges have let me
down.

I don't think that network scanning will be that much of a big deal, just
wanted to see if there were any scanner brands to stay away from (assuming
the FAX scanner and the stand-alone scanners are similar).  Again, my
experience with an older HP USB scanner under Linux was not very good
(proprietary hardware not supported by SANE).

I might just bite the bullet and get it to play the guinea pig and report
back findings...

Stay tuned.

Dan

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 14:37, Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com> wrote:

> Oh Brother!  Do you value your sanity?
>
> i have NOT used the following printer, but have wasted a couple of
> complete months of my life with Brother over the years.  Same goes for
> HP, but at least their commercial products lasted a very very long
> time.  The following HP specifically supports Linux, is networkable,
> probably has a longer duty cycle, and all drivers are probably
> built-in to most distributions.
>
> HP part: CB867A#B1H   UPC: 8 84962 53552 3
> http://www.shopping.hp.com/store/product/product_detail/CB867A%2523B1H
> The HP shoppoing specifications specifically delineate Linux as supported.
> $99 from shopping.hp.com  HP Officejet 4500 All-in-One Printer
>
> i think this is the same product from newegg, but newegg does not
> specifically mention Linux!
> $65 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16828115633
>
>
>
> Network scanning often is not worth the effort.  Most manufacturers
> seem to make it so that you have to get a really high end scanner to
> do this well in a workgroup.  But maybe things have changed.
> Most only allow to send faxes from the pc, not receive.  Hylafax
> allows you to receive an electronic version of what was faxed in.
>
>
> HP drivers are often builtin or you need to install hplip hpijs.
> After yum install xsane and probably some other packages, a very cheap
> HP officejet 5510 AIO was scanning even though the ink was out.  No cd
> required!
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