Does any manufacturer of printers or scanners provide drivers/software for Linux ?

I have an HP psc 750 multifunction printer. I was able to set it up during the Mandrake install process.

HP and Epson are your best bets.

For my HP PSC 2110 I had to download and install the hpoj drivers freely available from HP.
After that it was smooth as butter.

One word of caution, stay away from Lexmark products.

I can help you here.
I have an Epson 660 Perfection, which is actually a snapscan.
Works perfectly.
They all work well with scanimage, but not with a GUI.
If you need more advice, I'll send you an email.
I wrestled with this for hours

Does any one no were i can find drivers and a program to run my IJ750 Compaq printer and my UMAX Astra 3400 scanner

What kind of interface does the UMAX scanner use. USB & SCSI probably are supported, but parallel scanners usually are not supported by SANE.

UMAX Astra 3400 uses USB port
has anyone come up with the driver to make it work under linux?

thx

go here for your scanner needs. i just got my umax 3400 to work. slackware acutally has a sane package as part of the distro.

http://www.xsane.org

use both an HP 812c printer and an HP 2175 all-in one printer scanner copier...and both installed under Mandrake 9.2....

To Goin Easy9: does your multifunction device work under Mandrake?? I did get my K60 Printer scanner fax copier to print, in the end, but scanimage cannot find the scanner. No way. So I use the Epson scanner. Are you saying you can scan with your HP as well as print?? Which conf do you use in etc/saned? Can you give me the command line?
Thanks!

Hi Pedroski

being a newbie to linux...i let the mandrake installer (i use 9.2) do the installation for me....i have both printed and scanned with the device...although i seem to be having problems with the flash reader in the printer ....on bootup ikeep getting messages saying the a removable mass storage device has either been added or removed...one of the LQ members pointed me in the direction of flash reader in the printer...but i still haven't figured out the problem....

if you have more experience than me at the terminal command line...and can point me to a file that actually contains the name of the driver...i will be more than happy to give it to you....i've already looked with lsmod and in dmesg.....but can't identify the driver

Tom

Well, I'm no expert either, so we're both in the same boat. I finally got the printer going by updating Red Hat 9.2 to Fedora, then running ptal-init setup. That set up shuts down the Linux HP drivers, probes the ports, then sets up a new (psuedo??) device as far as I can tell, called mlc:usb:HPOfficeJet_K60. Because you then see that in the redhat printer config, and I clicked on it as the connection. Test page came out, to my astonishment! Whatever, the printer works, but the scanner isn't even sniffed at, although I read that it should work with hpijs driver and hpoj.
I don't quite know where ptal comes into this, as the drivers from hp are the aforementioned hpijs and hpoj. But they never got it going alone, not until I ran ptal-init.
Maybe someone who understands this better will read this and explain the details. If you get anything new on this, I'd be grateful for any tips! See you!

to freychef
was your psc 2110v a all-in-one printer?
if so, are you able to get it's scanner working?

I'm using Mandrake 9.1 and I just installed my HP 3400C scanner from the mandrake control center by clicking on the scanners button. It found my (usb) scanner, identified it correctly and installed it. without having to download a thing.

Hi Pedroski

I'll keep this thread in my e-mail....if i find out anything new, i'll let u know...i'd like to know what driver is actually setup also....because of the intermittant problems with the flash reader, and the swap partitions

Tom