New scanner/printer combo

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Sat Oct 24 15:13:18 UTC 2009


On Saturday 24 October 2009, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 00:02 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> The other 3 choices were Lexmark (over my dead body) HP but the ink
>> colors suck, cannon (no reason, just general principles) and all the
>> 500 USD color laser stuff.  If in fact there actually is scanner
>> support from linux in any of these MultiFunctionDevices, I would be
>> rather pleasantly surprised.
>
>My HP C5180 works perfectly both for scanning and printing, plus I have
>it network-connected so other people can also use it. It installed
>trivially with hplip. I have no problem with the print quality but I'm
>not doing photo work. I would probably go for another HP next time,
>despite the horrendous cost of the ink cartridges.
>
>poc
>
That is great, but while a neighbor has one of those, I didn't see one on the 
display shelves yesterday.  Probably that model is out of the supply 
pipelines today.

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