Could anyone please suggest me an all-in-one printer ?

DOTT.EVARISTI · 11-16-2007, 03:34 AM

Hi to everyone here !

I'm going to buy a multifunction all-in-one printer with scanner and fax 'cause my printer has told me Bye-bye,boy ! and by this way i will need less space on the table than if would still keep having them in separate way..

Coould please anyone suggest any good brand and/or good model with a very good compatibility with Linux ? I woulf use it primarly ii Fedora 7 and Suse 10.2

Bye and thank you !

cmnorton · 11-16-2007, 09:38 AM

It is my understanding that if you want to print with archival ink, do not buy HP. HP's black ink is permanent, but not the color ink. If anyone has proof otherwise, I'd love to know, because we've looked for HP archival ink and could not find it.

Canon printers print well, but can be complicated to use.

Epson and Lexmarks are pretty good printers. Canon and Epson offer archival ink.

blackhole54 · 11-16-2007, 08:34 PM

@DOTT.EVARISTI,

You might check out LQ's hardware compatibility list. Click the HCL link at the top of this page.

@cmnorton,

Thanks for the info. I didn't know there was a difference. Do you know of any links discussing the basics of archival vs non-archival ink? I couldn't find anything with a quick Google search. (Plenty of articles mentioning the term but I didn't see any discussing the issue.)

DOTT.EVARISTI · 11-23-2007, 07:58 AM

Cheers boys,i've looked at HCL too..and at the end i've bought an Epson Stylus color DX7000F..

what's the archival ink you mentioned? and the differences between normal one? i didn't even know it existed !

mipacu7 · 11-24-2007, 12:12 AM

All due respect to cmnorton, but most people don't know or care about archival ink, especially when buying a home printer. My HP PSC 1315 works perfectly on ubuntu 7.10 with HPLIP drivers over CUPS- inexpensive, prints and scans beautifully, and will print gorgeous pictures right from my digital camera with pictbridge. I think that model has been replace with the PSC 1510; all the PSC line work well.