Printing under Ubuntu

[William Grant]

Dave Hall wrote:
> 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) :)

It'll be a lot easier in 8.10, as Debian recently uploaded a version of
SANE which supports Avahi!

But it's not hard to do it now - I set up a new HP multifunction device
here a few days ago, and it was only a couple of lines of config to
share it throughout the house.

-- 
William Grant

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