Printing under Ubuntu

[Dave Hall]

On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 21:11 +1000, Daniel Mons wrote:
> Bevin Watson wrote:
> > Unless you want to spend a whole bunch more money, you won't be able to
> > scan from anything but the machine directly attached to the printer.
> 
> If the Scanner part is supported by SANE...
> http://www.sane-project.org/sane-supported-devices.html

Yep.  I have networked quite a few scanners over the years.  sane
support for networking scanners is excellent (and simple to do once you
remember where the howto is) :)

<OT>
It would be cool if there was a GUI tool for managing scanners and
sharing them.  system-config-printer is great for cups and printers,
something like this for sane and scanner is what I am thinking of.  (I
am happy using the command line, but I hate having to always read a
howto for things which seem to me should just work out of the box).
Adding avahai integration at the same time makes sense too :)

btw this shouldn't be taken as a "i want this yesterday for
free" whinge, it is simply a wishlist item that I can't be bothered
filing on LP as it is soooo user unfriendly.
</OT>


Cheers

Dave