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Hewlett Packard PSC 1200 series
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Date of last review
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5
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29508
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08-08-2005
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Average Price
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Average Rating
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80% of reviewers
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$77.00
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7.8
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Description:
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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 :)
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Keywords:
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hp psc printer scanner photocopyer
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Connection Type:
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USB
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04-15-2004, 03:32 AM
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Registered: Jan 2004
Distribution: Kubuntu 10.04 (Dell Linux-preinstalled laptop + a desktop); Maemo 5 (N900 phone computer)
Posts: 116
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $80.00 | Rating: 9
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.4.22-10mdk
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Mandrake 9.2
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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.
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07-07-2004, 12:47 AM
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Registered: Jul 2004
Distribution: SUSE Linux Professional 9.2
Posts: 30
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.4.22-1.2115.nptl
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Fedora Core 1
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hp psc1210
In Fedora Core 2 and Mandrake 10 drivers are included, and the printing and scanning works flawlessly.
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08-06-2004, 08:21 PM
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Registered: Nov 2003
Distribution: Mandriva LE 2005
Posts: 3
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Would you recommend the product? no | Price you paid? (in USD): $88.00 | Rating: 1
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.4 & 2.6
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Mandrake 9.1 - 10.0 - 10.1
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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.
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06-17-2005, 03:04 PM
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Registered: Jun 2005
Distribution: Arch Linux
Posts: 11
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $90.00 | Rating: 9
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.11.12
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Slackware 10.1
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No problems with installation, good howto on hp site.
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08-08-2005, 10:36 AM
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Registered: Nov 2004
Distribution: Debian Unstable
Posts: 77
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $50.00 | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.12.3-k7-local-9
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Debian Unstable
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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
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HP's unix heritage really shows.
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