Greg Woods writes:
So, is there any such thing as an all-in-one ink jet printer that
does not
suffer from this problem if it is not used regularly? Question #2 is, are any
of the all-in-one laser printers any good and work (all functions) with
Fedora Linux?
I think that a laser printer is going to be the best bet here, and I'm
wondering the same thing, actually. I'd settle down for only a scanner,
since my laserjet m118dw worked out of the box, after pointing hplip in its
direction. But an all-in-one would work too.
I did some searching over the weekend, and there's some conflicting
information on HP's multifunction devices. HP's site:
https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing/supported_devices...
This seems to suggest that hplip can configure most of their MFP with sane.
However, over at sane:
http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#Z-HEWLETT-PACKARD
This shows very, very scant HP support. Who should I believe?
I've been unable to find anything else on the intertubes that talks about
the trials and tribulation of such an endeavor. And I do not see Fedora's
hplip package install anything that might suggest a sane driver. Maybe when
it sees a supported scanner or MFP it dumps something, somewhere, where sane
sees it.
Maybe HP's stuff works so well, that there's no reason for anyone to say
much about it, it just works.
Another data point that raises a shadow of suspicion on the quality of
hplip's documentation: according to HP's web site my M118dw is a color laser
printer. That's news to me, and to the best of my abilities I've yet to
locate any color cartridges inside the chassis.