All-in-one Colour Laser

[John Moniz]

On 01/10/2014 12:06 PM, Stewart C. Russell wrote:
> On 14-01-10 11:11 AM, John Moniz wrote:
>> What about scanning? I suppose I still have to worry about drivers for
>> that function?
> Brother pretty much rely on x86/x86_64 binary drivers for printing and
> scanning. That might be a problem for you if you're not running x86 systems.
>
> I find it easier to scan to my AIO's SD card (I have an Epson WorkForce
> WF-7520 large format inkjet) which appears on the network as a Samba
> share. While there are scanner drivers for SANE for this, they're not
> very smart: duplex pages, for instance, appear upside down. The PDFs
> retrieved from the network share are all right-way-up.
>
> I've found the duplex scanning and network storage very handy, and
> if/when I have to replace the Epson, they'll be high on the list.
>
> It's at times like this I wish that the Linux Printing Database still
> worked. It's got lots of broken links since it joined the L*n*x
> F**nd*t**n (name redacted to prevent certain list-members from exploding).
>
> cheers,
>   Stewart
Stewart, you are doing all of your printing on an inkjet?
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