[aklug] Re: Multi-OS scanner/printer

* Greg Madden <gomadtroll@gci.net> [150111 16:00]:
> On Sunday 11 January 2015 2:07:42 pm you wrote:
> > Hi All :
> >
> > My wife wants a scanner and I felt that a wireless printer/scanner
> > would be the way to go.
> >
> > I think most on this list have had more experience with such units
> > than we have so, I'd welcome what you might think of the following:
> >
> > http://www.amazon.com/HP-5530-Wireless-Color-Printer/dp/B00DGHO3NY/ref=sr_1
> >_37?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1421016522&sr=1-37&keywords=scanner+linux
> >
> > We use ubuntu 12.04, xubuntu 12.04, and Mac OS 10.7
>
>
> HP has good support for their multifunction devices, I think the two I set up
> were the officejet 8500 models. Printing worked fine on wireless..scanning
> takes a USB connection..scanning was not supported on wirelesss. I use Debian
> and both HPCUPS & HPLIP are installed.
>
> ps, I would never spend 79.99 on a printer, way to cheap to be useful :-)
  Thanks for the feedback.

  Thus far, *for our purposes*, we have gotten good usage out of
  printers for even less than 79.99.

  However, I'm not qualified to make that same assessment on the
  scanning function.

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Tim 
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