Printer Question

[Barry Premeaux]

>I have an Epson all-in-one, the WP-4530, and it's a really nice machine.
>I prints quickly, does duplex, seems not to use the ink too quickly, and
>has ethernet, usb and wireless connection. Does fax, scan, and copy,
>also. The color copy is very close to the original. It will even fax in
>color. And it will copy  a number of pages automatically from a hopper,
>altho I have never tried that. The scanner works very well, as well as a
>separate scanner I had several years earlier. XSane will scan as high as
>1200dpi with this machine.

When I bought my Epson, it wasn't the newest one on the market, which meant
that it was supported in cups.  I see that Epson has a site now for printer
(cups) and scanner drivers for the latest units on their web site.

http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/?OSC=LX

They are offering both *.deb and *.rpm files.  It's nice to see that
another company is willing to address the need for Linux support.

Out of curiosity, I see HP offers it as well.

http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/about.html

I guess I just haven't been keeping up with the changes in the printer
market.

Barry




On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Wade Smart <wadesmart at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Robert Holtzm <holtzm at cox.net> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 05:57:43PM +0000, Juan R. de Silva wrote:
> >> On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 05:51:28 -0700, Barry Premeaux wrote:
> >>
> >> I had before HP OfficeJet. It is a common consensus that HP is well
> >> supported in Linux. In my experience however the Brother drivers are
> way,
> >> way better then hplip. My HP OfficeJet did not have built-in duplex and
> I
> >> had to use hplip provided manual "duplex" option. That is printing first
> >> odd pages, then turning the pile over and printing the even pages. hplip
> >> always screwed it up giving me headache. I not only had to turn the
> whole
> >> pile over but I had to turn each page up down too. That was a nightmare.
> >>
> >> Speaking of quality of the printer itself, there is no way HP flimsy
> >> printers can come even close with the quality of my Brother MFC. Very
> >> sturdy build, reliable workhorse. I have a laser All-in-One with duplex
> >> built-in (no wireless) and, since I get it on sale, it cost me much less
> >> than the flimsy HP OfficeJet. After I've discovered for myself Brother
> >> MFCs, I'd never go back to any of HP products.
> >
> > Looking at their web site I see no inkjet printers. I have no experience
> > with laserjets. How do they work with long (weeks/months) periods of
> > inactivity?
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> My laser will sit for several weeks between use. Same as ink: turn it
> on, warm it up, print.
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