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

[Ernie]

Hi All,
and thanks for the replies that I had.
Eventually I decided to get an HP All-in-One and went totally mad and bought the HP 
Photosmart eStation C510! its a wireless device with a USB connector as well.

As you said Matthew, Ubuntu supports it well.  Set up was easy and I was doing standard sort 
of printing and a couple of photo inno time at all.  Then on to the scanner.  Perfect!
However (well, no not really) I'm still playing with the undock-able, screen.  They call it 
a 'Zeen' It's just too clever for its own good. Seems to be a cross between an ipad/ipod 
sort of thingy.  Not that I know anythin(!) about hand held (Phones-ugh!) devices.
So I've got it to tell me whenever I can receive emails, tell me the weather, browse on the 
Internet etc.  All seems to work well on my wi-fi network at home.  Haven't yet taken it 
anywhere else that I know has wifi, (Starbucks) as I don't yet know what the battery life is 
like.

Of and I can see the ink levels and do normal administration of the printer and scanner from 
it.

What made me decide on it was that we had just decided to pop inti a local Curry's PC World 
- just to have a look around, and we found that there was a visiting chap from HP, who was 
very helpful.  He seemed to understand what I was asking (Ubuntu /Linux etc) well, at least 
it wasn't the blank stare you often get from the 'salesman' at those sort of establishments.


This printer, by the way has 5 separate ink cartridges, though only 3 colours, a black and 
another - which looks like a sort of dark gray.
Oh and ther's an SD slot in the Zeen, which I haven't tried yet.  You can print across the 
Internet.........  Oh wow!  can't wait to try it ;-)
Ernie


On 03/02/11 12:48, Matthew Phillips wrote:
> 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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