OT: recommendation for all-in-one printer?
Peter Flynn
peter at silmaril.ie
Tue Nov 3 22:17:10 UTC 2020
On 03/11/2020 19:16, M. Fioretti wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I must buy a combined printer/flatbed scanner. Requirements below. Any
> suggestion/user experience/horror story is welcome. Thanks for your time!
>
> Marco
>
> 100% Linux compatible
>
> GOOD A4 scanner (I will be use this thing much more to scan family photos
> than for printing)
>
> compact: it MUST fit in a shelf about 45cm wide, ~25cm high when
> closed (the bottom of the shelf slides forward when I need to raise
> the scanner cover)
>
> reliable
>
> no high printing requirements. I do need to print stuff, in color, but
> its text/diagrams, not pictures, and I rarely print more than
> ~30/pages per month
>
> cheap to buy and maintain (hopefully < 60/70 Euros?)
Good spec. I have always had HPs because they've always worked for me,
and they provide the hplip driver which ensures you have all the control
facilities from the printer which aren't available anyway else. HPs work
fine with CUPS and hplip, scan well with xsane, and none of them have
broken on me except through age or overwork. But they and their
cartridges are more expensive than other makes, but I've had no problems.
My gut feeling is that the cheaper the printer, the shorter the life of
the machine and its cartridges. But I have no data for that. I have had
endless problems with Brother, for some reason.
(I bought an Officejet Pro 7720 which is 31cm high, 58cm wide, and 35cm
deep, outside your spec because it also takes A3 paper, which is
important for my work.)
P
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