[Gloucs] Printer, scanner and All-in-one's

[Matthew Phillips]

HP printers are well supported on ubuntu by installing hplip
http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/screenshots.html

sudo apt-get install hplip hplip-gui hplip-cups hplip-data

I currently use a HP Photosmart C5180 all in one (wired network printer)
Scanner can be accessed via web interface or directly via front panel. Scans
can be saved to memory card which is then accessed using smb as it presents
itself as a network share.
Printing works just fine.
It also has a extra 6x4 paper tray for the decent printouts.

It has 5 colour cartridges and a large black. I bought it from tesco over 2
years ago for about £50. I'm sure there are now better models out for
cheaper....

Let us know what you decide on.

Matt


On 3 February 2011 12:41, Ernie <ernie at linfoot.plus.com> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
> Having been to only a few meetings in the past, I appreciate there are a
> lot of people who
> are willing to help with their advice etc.
>
> Sadly I having been able to get to as many meetings as I had hoped, due to
> a variety of
> seemingly feeble excuses!  Maybe this year...........
>
> Anyway, Can I have some advice from the group regarding Printers, scanners
> and All-in-one
> devices that work well with Linux - particularly I would like to hear from
> anyone who is
> running Ubuntu 10.4.
>
> My Canon S820 (its a photo printer with 6 separate ink tanks) is now
> showing an error
> message which indicates that its 'Waste Tank is almost full' and it looks
> like its going to
> be as costly as a new one :-(
>
> Also my current scanner is an old parallel port printer which runs on
> Windows 98 (and that's
> almost the only reason for using that OS now.,
> So I thought it might be worth investigating the current state of the
> market with regards to
> Compatibility with Linux.
>
> Ideally I'd like a photo printer with separate (5?) ink colours Max A4
> size, and a scanner
> with a transparency system. I've got loads of really old family negatives,
> of varying sized,
> not just 35mm!
>
> I'd love to hear from anyone with their experiences (and problems) of
> printing and scanning on this great Operating system.
>
> Just one word of warning, Although I've been involved with computer since
> about 1991, and
> Linux for about 2 years I still regard myself as relatively inexperienced
> with Linux, so any
> replies, Please, keep it simple
>
> Thanks for reading this far..
> All the best
> Ernie Knagg
>
>
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