Paul,
That sounds like everything I want, but is a little over my wife's
price range. However, we have saved over the last 17 years worth of
printers so perhaps I can try and persuade her. Congrats on your win.
How large is the HP Officejet 8500A? I don't have a great deal of
space for this at the moment, but could manage to rearrange a space
for it?
Adam
On 27 July 2011 12:16, Paul Tansom <paul@???> wrote:
> ** AdamC <kabads@???> [2011-07-26 18:38]:
>> I'm looking at purchasing a scanner and thought I may as well go up to
>> date and get a built in printer too (my ageing HP Desktop is
>> struggling with the heavier use that wife and kids are giving it).
>>
>> My main reason for purchasing the scanner functionality is to become
>> more paper free and store documents digitally, so ideally, I'd like a
>> quick scanner which is easy to set up and can get through documents
>> quickly.
> <<snip>>
>> Does anyone have any experience of any printer/scanner that they could
>> recommend for a multi OS environment? I'm also interested in the cost
>> of the ink, so wouldn't want to get an expensive to run printer.
> ** end quote [AdamC]
>
> I've recently acquired a HP Officejet 8500A [1] which I'm very happy with. I
> think the link is the correct model, it's the A910g [2] according to the
> driver, but the model on the web panel it references model number CM756A [1].
> If I'm vague it's because I didn't pay for it, but won it :) It is quite
> pricey, but the other model (somewhat cheaper) looks pretty similar - I've no
> idea what the differences are.
>
> Anyway, I've always found HP pretty supportive on the Linux driver front, and
> this one is quite happy printing from Linux over the network. It scans quite
> happily over the network from Gimp as well (I've not played with other apps,
> but it is xsane based). The only feature lacking support is the fax, but I've
> not been too worried about that and have either done it from Windows or
> straight from the feeder.
>
> One of the big bonuses for me is the stand alone scanning, which it does quite
> happily to a network folder on my Linux server and will save as JPG or PDF.
> Multiple pages can be scanned to a single PDF. It handles duplex printing and
> scanning via the ADF and easily scans single sided sheets to double sided
> printouts.
>
> Personally I seem to be using it more to scan documents to PDF on the server
> than printing! So far I've not finished the supplied low capacity cartridges,
> which aren't mega cheap, but at least I can buy individual colours now and not
> the tri-colour one I was stuck with before.
>
> [1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Officejet-8500A--All--Enabled-Printer/dp/B003VYB718/ref=sr_1_3?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1311712483&sr=1-3
> [2] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Officejet-8500A--All--Enabled-Printer/dp/B003VYB70Y/ref=sr_1_1?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1311712483&sr=1-1
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