Greg Woods writes:
So, is there any such thing as an all-in-one ink jet printer that does not suffer from this problem if it is not used regularly? Question #2 is, are any of the all-in-one laser printers any good and work (all functions) with Fedora Linux?
I think that a laser printer is going to be the best bet here, and I'm wondering the same thing, actually. I'd settle down for only a scanner, since my laserjet m118dw worked out of the box, after pointing hplip in its direction. But an all-in-one would work too.
I did some searching over the weekend, and there's some conflicting information on HP's multifunction devices. HP's site:
https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing/supported_devices/index This seems to suggest that hplip can configure most of their MFP with sane. However, over at sane: http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#Z-HEWLETT-PACKARD This shows very, very scant HP support. Who should I believe?I've been unable to find anything else on the intertubes that talks about the trials and tribulation of such an endeavor. And I do not see Fedora's hplip package install anything that might suggest a sane driver. Maybe when it sees a supported scanner or MFP it dumps something, somewhere, where sane sees it.
Maybe HP's stuff works so well, that there's no reason for anyone to say much about it, it just works.
Another data point that raises a shadow of suspicion on the quality of hplip's documentation: according to HP's web site my M118dw is a color laser printer. That's news to me, and to the best of my abilities I've yet to locate any color cartridges inside the chassis.
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