[olug] Linux-friendly hardware question - stand-alone FAX machine

[Rob Townley]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:
>> I'm needing to purchase a stand-alone FAX machine for my home office.  I'm
>> currently looking at the Brother MFC-295CN since it also doubles (in
>> Windows) as a networked scanner and printer.  (Roughly $70 @ Amazon)
>>
>> Before I go plunking down the money, anyone have any other suggestions for a
>> FAX machine that also doubles as a network printer and scanner that is Linux
>> friendly?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Dan
>>
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>
> Oh Brother!  Do you value your sanity?
>
> i have NOT used the following printer, but have wasted a couple of
> complete months of my life with Brother over the years.  Same goes for
> HP, but at least their commercial products lasted a very very long
> time.  The following HP specifically supports Linux, is networkable,
> probably has a longer duty cycle, and all drivers are probably
> built-in to most distributions.
>
> HP part: CB867A#B1H   UPC: 8 84962 53552 3
> http://www.shopping.hp.com/store/product/product_detail/CB867A%2523B1H
> The HP shoppoing specifications specifically delineate Linux as supported.
> $99 from shopping.hp.com  HP Officejet 4500 All-in-One Printer
>
> i think this is the same product from newegg, but newegg does not
> specifically mention Linux!
> $65 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16828115633


Not exactly sure what NewEgg meant in its response, but NewEgg now
mentions Linux under "Features"  "Others".



>
>
>
> Network scanning often is not worth the effort.  Most manufacturers
> seem to make it so that you have to get a really high end scanner to
> do this well in a workgroup.  But maybe things have changed.
> Most only allow to send faxes from the pc, not receive.  Hylafax
> allows you to receive an electronic version of what was faxed in.
>
>
> HP drivers are often builtin or you need to install hplip hpijs.
> After yum install xsane and probably some other packages, a very cheap
> HP officejet 5510 AIO was scanning even though the ink was out.  No cd
> required!
>