Fantastic printer / scanner / photocopier with windows operating systems. Installing and getting the thing to work on linux however has been a challenge and is still not over. Printing quality is super though and having the ability to scan and copy within the one item of hardware is a god send.
Seems so far to get this to work you will need updated drivers for linux, and possible kernel changes. I bought redhat 9 with a book called beginning redhat linux 9, which have annoyingly left out the kernel souce files. which kinda leaves me stuck unless i download a different kernel version with its source files.
overall the printer is good and well worth buying if you can get it working on linux. Good luck :)
My particular one is the "psc1210" (what's with the lower-case letters in the model numbers nowadays?)
Just bought it today, so take this with a grain of salt.
Worked out of the box. Ignore the instructions about "how to use with Windows/Mac OS" and just turn it on and hook up. Then go to PrinterDrake in Mandrake Control Centre.
It correctly identified the printer and that it is also a scanner. It warns not to use the usual "ScannerDrake" for this. Was able to print, and XSane was able to scan okay.
Only reason for not 10/10 is that I haven't used it extensively yet, so being cautious.
Would you recommend the product? no | Price you paid?: $88.00 | Rating: 1
Kernel (uname -r):
2.4 & 2.6
Distribution:
Mandrake 9.1 - 10.0 - 10.1
9.1 did not find the printer, could not configure printer or scanner.
10.0 did not find the printer. It configured the scanner but when I tried to scan it said no scanner on system. Ditto on 10.1. I was hoping to throw windows in the garbage with 10.0 but it appears USB support is still lagging at ML.
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $50.00 | Rating: 10
Kernel (uname -r):
2.6.12.3-k7-local-9
Distribution:
Debian Unstable
I bought a PSC 1215 and the hardest part was to unpack it and connect the cables. (I'm not 100% certain of what sets the 1215 apart from the rest of the 1200 series. I think it might support slighly bigger print cartridges or have the upgraded firmware from 1315?)
After running the selftest I basically did "apt-get install hplip" and it was up and running. Printing works flawlessly and the scanner surpasses my needs.
Informative web page at "http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/index.php
".
HP's unix heritage really shows.
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