[Nottingham] Choosing a Printer

[Dylan Swift]

FWIW I bought an Epson Stylus SX610FW last year. All in one printer,
scanner, fax, etc with 4 separate cartridges. I had to download drivers
from the Epson web site for my laptop (Fedora 14), but the scanner works
beautifully (It has sheet feed too!).

I was surprised to learn that scan to pdf & scan to network did not mean
what I thought it did. I expected the printer to generate a pdf from a scan
and then mail it to me - as our old Lexmark does at work. Instead I need to
run the scanning program on my desktop and scan the documents in. Once
finished the scan is converted to pdf and saved locally.

Setup was straightforward and it has an Ethernet port. It also supports
wireless but you need to buy a dongle for that. It's quiet and quick and I
would definitely buy another if this one died.

HTH
Dylan

On 21 March 2012 09:39, Paul Tew <binarybod at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 20 March 2012 23:39, Jason Irwin <jasonirwin73 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 27/01/12 19:27, Paul Tew wrote:
>> > I just bought a little HP Officejet 4500 the other day and I'm chuffed
>> > to bits with it. The HPLIP drivers work fine on my Sabayon KDE set-up in
>> > fact they are easier more intuitive and as far as I can see, more
>> > functional than the Windows drivers that it came with (although
>> > admittedly I haven't used these as much as the Linux ones)
>>
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> Now that we have exciting things like "floors" and these other new-wave
>> house features, I can once again try and find a printer.
>>
>> Is this the one you have?
>>
>> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Officejet-4500-All-Printer-Print/dp/tech-data/B00381KG1Q/ref=de_a_smtd
>> (Amazon list a couple of variants)
>>
>> Do you use it networked, or via USB?
>>
>> Took a look at the 6410 and 6500 too, but they are more expensive.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> --
>> Jason Irwin
>>
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>
> Hi Jason,
>
> That's the one, though I think mine goes by the cumbersome full title of
> 'HP Officejet 4500 g510n'. I don't do an awful lot of printing, scanning or
> faxing but it all seems perfectly functional through the HPLIP drivers and
> applications.
>
> As I said, I have a sabayon, the hplip driver is in the standard
> repository for this distro as I suspect it is for most other distributions.
>
> Paul
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