[aklug] Re: Multi-OS scanner/printer

Tim,
 At work I use an HP8500 to scan and print over the network. Greg is
correct, you are making a wise choice to stick with HP, their support
is great for Linux machines.
 If you use the HPLIP tool:

# hp-setup -i

 You can choose option 2 for a network printer, and then set it up for
printing and scanning.
 Fortunately, once you do this, you do not need a USB cable to scan,
as you can set xsane to scan over the network by editing this file:

# nano /etc/sane.d/pixma.conf

You can look up the backend that you need, I'll check when I get to
work tomorrow for which one I use, as HP 8500's are not "supported"
backends, but still work just fine. Essentially, you punch in a
backend://ipaddress:portnumber for your scanner and then save the
file. Reboot the computer (or restart the sane service) and you can
scan over the network to a standalone all-in-wonder hp scanner/printer
with xsane. Works like a champ at my work, using Debian Wheezy.
-Weston

On 1/11/15, Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com> wrote:
> * 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.
> --
> Tim
> tim at tee jay forty nine dot com or akwebsoft dot com
> http://www.akwebsoft.com, http://www.tj49.com
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Received on Sun Jan 11 18:36:20 2015