HP All in One device support

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 04 April 2007, fredex wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 07:56:23PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Tuesday 03 April 2007, Tom Weniger wrote:
> > > On 4/3/07, Styma, Robert E (Robert) <stymar at alcatel-lucent.com> wrote:
> > > > Back in the FC3 days, I was helping a person convert
> > > > to Fedora from Window$.  They had an HP 1320 Printer,
> > > > scanner, copier.  The Linux drivers at that time could
> > > > support it either as a printer or a scanner but not
> > > > both.  I ended up attaching it to a box running Window$
> > > > and let it go at that.
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone have any recent experience connecting these
> > > > type devices to a Linux box?  Are the HP PSC devices
> > > > now fully supported?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for any advice.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Bob Styma
> > >
> > > Greetings Bob,
> > >
> > > I have been running a HP PSC 2110 for a few years with different
> > > versions of FC with no problems.
> >
> > It's also worth considering a Brother MF device.  One such was put on
> > this LAN a few months ago, and I discovered that with the drivers
> > supplied by Brother (on their website - there's no mention of linux in
> > the manual supplied)  I could remotely print and scan.  I was quite
> > impressed.
> >
> > Anne
>
> and drifting A LITTLE off-topic... I bought recently a brother laser
> printer (HL-2070N) and it works like a charm without any effort at all. I'm
> using Centos-4.4 at home. plugged in the USB cable from the printer and up
> pops a configuration dialog. accepted defaults and voila! it's been working
> ever since. (Not a MF device, I know, and they tend to be different...).

The one I mentioned had usb and ethernet connections.  It's good to see 
Brother supporting linux.  I've used HP for years, but having an alternative 
is always good.

Anne