[Klug-general] Printers

[Mike Rentell]

Further to what I wrote earlier, I've just remembered that it helps to 
have the epkowa.conf file in /etc/sane.d if you want to use the scanner 
part of a multifunction output device. It took me a week or two to learn 
that trick.

MikeR

 >I had a similar thought last year and eventually settled on the Epson 
Stylus Photo RX520. It does all you want, including separate colour CMYK 
cartridges. Even cheap replacement cartridges work very well.
 >
 >Under CUPS this printer isn't listed, but the RX510 is listed and that 
works fine.
 >
 >It isn't small but forget Chinese hokum and put it where it works  :-)
 >
 >MikeR
 >in Folkestone


Mike Evans wrote:
 > I'm thinking of getting one of the HP multifunction printers. 
(Printer/Scanner/Copier all in one.)  Anyone got any experience with 
them and Linux or any reason I should buy something else.
 >
 > One of my key criteria is that it should fit in the cupboard under my 
desk along with my shuttle PC.  The new ones have the advantage that 
they are pretty much self-contained within the dimensions of the unit, 
unlike my current Epson printer, which has a sheet feeder sticking up 
and out at the back.  This means it has to sit on my desktop and destroy 
my Feng Shui.  (More importantly eating up valuable desk space.)
 >
 > I wonder about the merits of getting one with separate colour 
cartridges as opposed to black and then colours combined.  The HP colour 
laser at work has separate units for each of the colours - but I note 
that it always demands that all three are replaced at the same time. 
That can't be can it?  It makes me think unkind thoughts about HP.
 >
 > Mike
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