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

[Dan Linder]

The 295 does have a scan-to-USB-stick that I actually use more than
the other scan-to-___ features.  My opinion is that I have to walk
over to the scanner to load the page(s), I might as well save it
locally too.

I'll play with the scan-to-PC features under Ubuntu tonight to see what I get.

Dan

On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 22:33, Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dan,
>
> Thanks for letting me know.  That is encouraging news.
> in the past, i had to install hundreds of megabytes of bloat in order to
> ScanToPC which i never understood because i just want to save to a file
> share or sftp share or otherwise use a well known communication protocol.
> My eyefi card and cell phone can save to a file share, why can't all
> networked scanners.  On the faxing side, T.38 still does not seem to be
> well known in the faxing industry but at least it would be a standard
> protocol.
>
> On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 16:45, Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com>
>> wrote:> Dan, how is that Brother holding up?>> Do you send faxes or
>> scans over the network with it?
>> Both of my Brother printers (the HL-2700CN color laser, and the
>> MFC-295CN inkjet fax/scanner/printer) are doing great.
>>
>> I finally replaced the original ink cartridges in the 295, bought a
>> set of 12 cartridges (three of each color) from an Amazon re-seller
>> for about $20 total.  I was suspect of the quality based on the price,
>> but they have good color and that was 6+ months ago and I'm still on
>> the first set.  It's now a fraction of the TCO when it comes to my
>> past HP InkJet printers.
>>
>> Both printers are easy to setup as network printers under Ubuntu.  The
>> network scanner and print-to-FAX with the 295 hasn't been
>> re-configured since I did a full re-install of 11.10.  From memory, I
>> believe both the scanning and print-to-FAX worked, but I'll have to
>> re-configure them to confirm.
>>
>> (For those interested, the print-to-FAX and network scanning under
>> Windows 7 works quite well.  I don't do much of either of those, but I
>> have done network scanning and it's easy and quick.)
>>
>> Dan
>>
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