Topics from the Open Printing microconference

Posted Sep 12, 2019 16:42 UTC (Thu) by kpfleming (subscriber, #23250)
Parent article: Topics from the Open Printing microconference

In order to get scanning from my Brother MFC device working I had to setup an internal FTP server and configure the printer for "Scan to FTP". No amount of fiddling with the Brother-provided drivers for SANE ever resulted in a working configuration. To be honest though this has worked out pretty well, because the scans go onto our NAS and then get moved to archive directories after renaming :-)

Topics from the Open Printing microconference

Posted Sep 13, 2019 16:25 UTC (Fri) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454) [Link] (2 responses)

A lot of "business" scanner/printers will mail scan results to configurable addresses. Just buy one of those when Lexmark or HP or whatever empties inventory and makes a sale. If it's a laser it will probably end up cheaper than a consumer inkjet that dies up every other week. IPP for printing + mail pdf for scan = driver-less no-hassle printer that will still work in ten years.

The main drawbacks are they are ugly as hell (business unbreakable gray plastic, not shiny consumer brittleware), and they tend to take more space (they don't pretend a 10-sheet paper tray is enough for your needs). They need to hide below a pretty scarf at home.

Topics from the Open Printing microconference

Posted Sep 16, 2019 19:33 UTC (Mon) by niner (subscriber, #26151) [Link] (1 responses)

Except when they don't. I happen to own such an HP laser printer/scanner. For the first year or so the online print service was the only way for me to get any printed result out of the thing despite HP offering Linux drivers on the website. Then the online service stopped working and despite me proving to support that it was a change in their online service (switch to https) that killed my printer, they did nothing to fix this. At least that spurred me to try to find a way to print locally and indeed I succeeded. By using the PPD of a different printer, not the one that was meant exactly for my model.

Topics from the Open Printing microconference

Posted Sep 20, 2019 20:48 UTC (Fri) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

My HP business MFP works fine. CUPS has no problems printing to it, although as another person said I found lpr much easier ...

But for scanning, I always use "scan to share" so there are no drivers or anything on the linux side. Just samba. Although one of my users just refuses to work and I haven't a clue why.

That user has no problems connecting from elsewhere.

Cheers,
Wol