From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0DA63138334 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2018 10:08:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EBEFDE0ABB; Mon, 12 Nov 2018 10:08:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.hosts.co.uk (smtp.hosts.co.uk [85.233.160.19]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6F130E0A65 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2018 10:08:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [81.153.82.232] (helo=[192.168.1.82]) by smtp.hosts.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim) (envelope-from ) id 1gM98c-0004dh-6K for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2018 10:08:11 +0000 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Scanners, sane and driver support question To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <4e275bf5-6093-26d9-77c1-eb8a44a4befe@gmail.com> <8f38cc6b-7c6e-a687-652d-09f82135667a@youngman.org.uk> <4f4860b3-a162-0e60-4634-e46026554480@gmail.com> <1648970.HUY2mqVmEJ@andromeda> <32776694-520c-ddda-eb41-3dddd9e1de16@gmail.com> <20181112083659.61f733cc@digimed.co.uk> From: Wols Lists Message-ID: <5BE95109.4040102@youngman.org.uk> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2018 10:08:09 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20181112083659.61f733cc@digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 01162b0c-df67-44f6-81cd-86652a80ef9d X-Archives-Hash: b77e09dba2f23e42a827e1df6dc7c89d On 12/11/18 08:36, Neil Bothwick wrote: > I bought an HP_Color (their spelling, not mine!) LaserJet MFP M476dw a > few years ago. It does duplex printing and scanning and just works. A > full set of toner cartridges isn't cheap, but they last well. Looking at the front of mine, it's a Color LaserJet Pro MFP M477fdn. Nice beast, but a full set of cartridges costs more than the printer did! I went for that over its cheaper brother because when I factored in the extra life of the starter cartridges, that seemed to cover the extra cost. So far it looks good. Just two niggles - this machine is well out-of-date so CUPS doesn't seem to know about this model, and for some reason I've set up scanning for three accounts successfully, but the fourth just doesn't want to work :-( Again, went for HP because they seem solid and reliable. Used to have a Dell, but it was a "get a free printer if you buy 3 sets of cartridges". Very good deal but the first one broke before it used all its cartridges, and its replacement (fortunately, used the same cartridges) broke shortly after it had run through all the cartridges. So I thought "sod it, go for an HP with maintenance etc". Cheers, Wol