[Wylug-discuss] Printer recommendations wanted...

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 24 March 2011 10:08:02 Smylers wrote:
> Jim Jackson writes:
> > Anyone recommend a robust small office printer mainly for b/w printing
> > but also ok for colour photo prints, that plays well with Linux.
> 
> Hi Jim. My dad bought an HP B109n last year and was very happy with it:
> http://j.mp/HP_B109n
> 
> My Ubuntu laptop prints to it just fine -- it scanned for printers on
> the network, found the printer, picked an appropriate driver, and was
> printing in seconds. Amusingly, this was much less hassle than getting
> it working from my parents' Windows laptop, which required installing
> software from the supplied HP CD (and probably rebooting too).
> 
> Features include:
> 
> * It's fast, for an inkjet, especially when just printing black. I was
>   really impressed (though it may just be that it's years since I bought
>   a new printer and they're all pretty speedy these days).
> 
> * Output is sufficiently high quality; it doesn't look overly
>   'inkjetty'.
> 
> * There are separate cartridges for each of the 4 inks, so you don't
>   have the waste of throwing away yellow and magenta ink just because
>   you've run out of cyan.
> 
> * Wi-fi connectivity, so can be positioned anywhere and doesn't require
>   a particular computer to be turned on for it to print.
> 
> * Works as a primitive A4 photocopier. It has buttons for this; doesn't
>   involve a computer.
> 
> * Can scan to SD card or memory stick, (again no computer involved).
> 
> Theoretically it can scan to a computer too, but that isn't something
> I've tried, and may not work from Linux. Dad picked it solely for its
> printing abilities; it just happened to come with a scanner. I think it
> was a 'Which?' Best Buy.
> 
> A very similar model -- seems to be the same but without wireless -- has
> some poor reviews on Amazon, but they all seem to be related to the
> scanning and the Windows software; they may well be true, but aren't
> relevant if you're just using it as a printer and from Linux:
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/HP-B109/dp/B003DK9KQE/#customerReviews
> 
> There may well be a newer model which supersedes it.
> 
My HP7180 is wifi-connected, and that too has no problem with Linux.  I've not 
found anything that doesn't work, except that I haven't tried using the built-
in scan-to-computer, as I can't imagine how it would know which computer on 
the LAN to send the output to :-)  I can confirm, though, that, using the 
wireless connection, I can scan from the GIMP.

Anne
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