On Mon, 14 Jul 2014 14:13:22 +0100 Richard Lyons <rich...@the-place.net> wrote:
> Hi, > > Perhaps someone here has already solved this: > > I have wasted another 20 hours trying to get sane (or anything that > scans) to see a networked Samsung CLX-4195FN. And this is s journey I > have travelled before with a B+W Brother MFP which ran for a few years > under various flavours of Debian with the help of endless playing with > the drivers provided by Brother. Samsung also provide drivers, and I > have had the machine operating under Arch and Debian Stable for some > months. But I need to run sid to have later versions of other > software, hence my current predicament. I need to replace the > Samsung with something that really will run under sid. I am looking > for a colour laser MFC (no need for fax). It must be networked > (ethernet is fine, though wifi would be ok), and modestly priced -- > small business model, say in the £200-400 range. > > I see that HP and OKI both claim to offer Linux drivers, for example. > The sane-project.org website never has the current models, however, > so I would like to hear any positive experience others have had > before buying another expensive failure. > > TIA > > richard If I'm reading your post correctly, you have no problem printing to this printer, only scanning. Perhaps you can do what I did... My Brother MFC8810DW multifunction is Linux compatable, and I even got the thing to scan from my computer a couple times. But it was so darn difficult I gave up and simply scanned to a thumb drive plugged into the printer's USB, and then sneakernetted the thumb to my computer. Yeah, it's a 1976 solution, but I don't spend time getting sane to work, and for the amount I scan, it's not particularly a burden. If that works, maybe you can keep the printer you have now. SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140714104557.6706d...@mydesq2.domain.cxm
