Ixthusdan Posted July 10, 2003 Report Share Posted July 10, 2003 I am considering putting one of these in my home office for ease of use. (My wife does not like bouncing from one piece of hardware to the next and using different software programs as much as I do! :lol: ) I have been considering Epson units. Does anyone have one of these machines going with linux? Model stylus cx5200 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeeDubb Posted July 11, 2003 Report Share Posted July 11, 2003 I have an all in one printer scanner copier that I like realy well, but it has it's drawbacks. Pros: $99 600dpi scanner (adequite for anything short of professional photographic work) printers very fast on draft prints very well on high one touch photo copying Cons: it is a biatch to set up. (Well, it's not actualy that hard, just WAY more complicated than most printers, if you go with it, I'll help you out though) not a stand-alone fax, so you will need a modem and third party software to fax, but that's realy not such a big deal. HP psc1210 If you're going onto a windows box, seting up the rpinter is a breeze, and like I said, I'd be happy to help you with the setup if you need it, or you could just find my printer threads in the hardware forum, the answers are all there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted July 11, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2003 HP is good. I have been looking at Epson because I can get their models as refurbs for cheap! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bratag Posted July 11, 2003 Report Share Posted July 11, 2003 Got one of these - bout 125 bucks - does up to 3200 - will do almost everything you require - worked just great with sane/xsane for me - also there is some SW from epson you can use on linux (though you have to download it from another site). Hope this helps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted October 29, 2003 Report Share Posted October 29, 2003 Cons:it is a biatch to set up. (Well, it's not actualy that hard, just WAY more complicated than most printers, if you go with it, I'll help you out though) not a stand-alone fax, so you will need a modem and third party software to fax, but that's realy not such a big deal. I just bought the PSC 1210v and I just popped the ink cartridges in, hooked it up to the usb and plugged it in. Then ran printerdrake and it works fine. Don't know what the 'biatch' part would be...lol. Although, I have/had no idea that it can work as a fax with a modem (how?). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeeDubb Posted October 29, 2003 Report Share Posted October 29, 2003 Let me guess, you're using mandrake 9.2?? When I posted that, I was using mandrake 9.1 whitch, as you may or may not know used a slightly older version of hpijs, the HP inkjet server and also a slightly older and not compatible version of the hpoj driver, whitch is what enables the scanning. So, then, you had to let printer drake configure it, whitch would of course, not let you print. Then you had to manualy remove about 6 packages, and compile the latest CVS of hpoj and the latest tarball of hpijs, configure the printer from the console with 'ptal-init setup' and then set it up in cups, either through the command line or web admin tool. If at any point you tried to have MCC help with any of this, you were out of luck and had to start over. That's why I said it was a biatch. Of couse, with 9.2, life is beautiful. Set-up is all automatic and it works perfectly first time. As for the faxing, that's both simple and obvious. Any computer with a modem, printer and scanner can be used as a fax machine. There are a number of fax programs whitch can send a scanned image and almost all faz reception programs can print. Haveing a multi function device just means you can do it with less junk on you desk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rimmer Posted October 31, 2003 Report Share Posted October 31, 2003 i have the hp 2110 and there is no trouble the only trouble is that once you have configure it through printer drake you have to restart the printer for scanner works that its kind of weird but it works flawlessly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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