[MLUG] mlug Digest, Vol 44, Issue 16

[Marco A. Bravo]

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>   1. Re: looking for a scanner and colour printer (Peter)
>   2. Re: looking for a scanner and colour printer (Stefan Monnier)
>   3. Re: looking for a scanner and colour printer (Stephane Bakhos)
>   4. Re: looking for a scanner and colour printer (Hendrik Boom)
>   5. Re: looking for a scanner and colour printer (Hendrik Boom)
>   6. Re: looking for a scanner and colour printer (Stephane Bakhos)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 19:39:46 -0400
> From: Peter <peter at bsqt.homeip.net>
> Subject: Re: [MLUG] looking for a scanner and colour printer
> To: Leslie S Satenstein <lsatenstein at yahoo.com>,        Montreal Linux Users
>        Group <mlug at listserv.mlug.ca>
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> have been using HP products for at least 10 years on linux.  hplip
> comes by default with ubuntu, at least.  when I use the simple scan
> utility that comes by default, it just finds my scanner.  My scanner
> is hard wired to the LAN.   I think going for a network scanner is
> likely safer than USB.  CUPS is pretty well known/implemented, so
> anything with a network interface is likely to work out of the box.
> They're all cheap now.
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 21:11:09 -0400
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier at iro.umontreal.ca>
> Subject: Re: [MLUG] looking for a scanner and colour printer
> To: Montreal Linux Users Group <mlug at listserv.mlug.ca>
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>> What I want to know is, which ones work well with Linux these days,
>> which are affordable,  and which ones are really *good*.
>
> I can't tell you what's good or what's cheap, but in terms of support
> for GNU/Linux, HP has been and seems to still be the king of the hill.
>
> Various other manufacturers provide support as well, but it seems most
> of them do so with proprietary drivers.  I've heard rumors that Brother
> has seen the light, but haven't been able to confirm (e.g. I can't seem
> to find them in Debian).
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>        Stefan
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 22:33:28 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Stephane Bakhos <nuitari-mlug at nuitari.net>
> Subject: Re: [MLUG] looking for a scanner and colour printer
> To: Montreal Linux Users Group <mlug at listserv.mlug.ca>
> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1110222232360.20543 at anvil.nuitari.net>
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>>> What I want to know is, which ones work well with Linux these days,
>>> which are affordable,  and which ones are really *good*.
>>
>> I can't tell you what's good or what's cheap, but in terms of support
>> for GNU/Linux, HP has been and seems to still be the king of the hill.
>>
>> Various other manufacturers provide support as well, but it seems most
>> of them do so with proprietary drivers.  I've heard rumors that Brother
>> has seen the light, but haven't been able to confirm (e.g. I can't seem
>> to find them in Debian).
>
> Some of Brother's drivers are open source, other are proprietary.
> I've been using a MFC-J615W and all functions work over the network.
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 22:47:36 -0400
> From: Hendrik Boom <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com>
> Subject: Re: [MLUG] looking for a scanner and colour printer
> To: Montreal Linux Users Group <mlug at listserv.mlug.ca>
> Message-ID: <20111023024736.GA12230 at topoi.pooq.com>
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> On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 10:33:28PM -0400, Stephane Bakhos wrote:
>>
>> Some of Brother's drivers are open source, other are proprietary.
>> I've been using a MFC-J615W and all functions work over the network.
>
> That MFC-J615W -- do you ise open or proprietary drivers? 32 or 64-bit?
>
> -- hendrik
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> Message: 5
> Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 23:04:07 -0400
> From: Hendrik Boom <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com>
> Subject: Re: [MLUG] looking for a scanner and colour printer
> To: mlug at listserv.mlug.ca
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> On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 04:26:56PM -0700, Leslie S Satenstein wrote:
>> I have been using Brother Products since 2004 in a linux environment
>>
>> Brother has a color laser scanner fax, duplex printer that is affordable.? You can get toner refills from a few places that stock the powder or buy cartridges from Bureau en Gros.
>
> I've got a Brother black-and-white laser printer.  It's networked, and
> talks the appropriate printer protocols for Linux, Windows, and Mac.  It
> needs no special drivers for Linux, because it uses the standard Unix
> protocols over TCP.  It understands postscript and pdf.
>
> But it doesn't do colour, nor does it scan.
>
> -- hendrik
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> Message: 6
> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 01:12:31 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Stephane Bakhos <nuitari-mlug at nuitari.net>
> Subject: Re: [MLUG] looking for a scanner and colour printer
> To: Montreal Linux Users Group <mlug at listserv.mlug.ca>
> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1110230110140.20543 at anvil.nuitari.net>
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>>>
>>> Some of Brother's drivers are open source, other are proprietary.
>>> I've been using a MFC-J615W and all functions work over the network.
>>
>> That MFC-J615W -- do you ise open or proprietary drivers? 32 or 64-bit?
>
> Proprietary. It's 32bit.
>
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