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

[Chad Homan]

My two cents

I had luck at my brother auto shop getting an all-in-one brother MFC
9840CDW  to work with
ubuntu as a network based printer.  Not sure if he is sending fax from
ubuntu or manually
feeding them.

The ubuntu forums have great community support in regards to hardware
devices,  you might
find what your looking for there too.

On that note, I agree with Rob.  HP's just seem to be the easiest to
integrate

Chad, CISSP


On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:

> 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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