Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

Gilboa Davara gilboad at gmail.com
Mon Aug 19 10:35:13 IDT 2013


On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Omer Zak <w1 at zak.co.il> wrote:
>[SNIP]
> I would say that today it's "anything but HP" - unless things changed
>[/SNIP]

I must admit that my experience couldn't be any different.
I've got a large number of HP printers both at work and at home, most
of them MFP (multi function printers) and beyond the blood-like ink
prices, HP's Linux support is top notch - no matter what distribution
is being used.
(We have Fedora, Ubuntu, SUSE and Slackware).
Beyond the obvious (cups, x/sane), HPLIP toolbox more or less mirror's
the HP Window toolbox minus the all the bloatware and in most cases
the printer simply works out of the box.

FWIW I've I currently have / use 4 different HP printers:
- LaserJet 1212MFP (Works just fine as a printer and scanner, fax
firmware is problematic).
- OfficeJet 6700 (Two days old. No comments thus far).
- OfficeJet 5784 (4.5 [!] years old, Amazing [!!!!] printer. being
replaced by 6700 due ink prices).
- OfficeJet 4580 (3 years old, Good printer, slowish scanner,
problematic auto-feeder).

Hope it helps,
- Gilboa



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