Re: Re: Printer

2012-09-24 Thread Tom Balazs
Subject: Re: printer Message-ID: <20120922195817.60207997@ shlomo1.solomon> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > Tom and Guy - since you both mentioned printers that do scan when > there's no ink, I'd be happy to know what specific models. And it goes > without

Re: printer

2012-09-24 Thread Guy Gold
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > > Tom and Guy - since you both mentioned printers that do scan when > there's no ink, I'd be happy to know what specific models. And it goes > without saying that the scanning must work under Linux. > > > Mine is Brother MFC-J410W , it is a

Re: printer

2012-09-22 Thread Shlomo Solomon
Thanks to Amichai, Tom and Guy. Amichai - I agree that a laser is a better deal because of ink/toner prices. In fact I have 2 on my home network. But possibly I was not clear enough in my original question. I'm looking for a CHEAP fax/scan alternative and it seems that today even the cheapest scan

Re: printer

2012-09-22 Thread Amichai Rotman
I know Brother support Linux. I recommend Laser printers, if you don't do much printing. I now prefer Samsung printers. usually works out of the box - no additional software needed (at least in Ubuntu). I'd recommend visiting the stores near your house, check the service status (how much it costs t

Re: printer

2012-09-21 Thread Guy Gold
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > On a related note, do you know if the scanning and faxing on this (or > any other) printer works when there's no ink? My scanner died and I > thought of buying a multi-function as a replacement, since all the > scanners I found were expensiv

Re: printer

2012-09-21 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 09/19/2012 06:45 PM, Constantine Shulyupin wrote: > Which multifunctional printer for home (SOHO) would you recommend to > purchase from available currently in Israel? > Which store network? > > Thanks Mac OsX uses CUPS for printing, so, lately, pretty much all of them are supported. YMMV, of co

Re: printer

2012-09-21 Thread Shlomo Solomon
On a related note, do you know if the scanning and faxing on this (or any other) printer works when there's no ink? My scanner died and I thought of buying a multi-function as a replacement, since all the scanners I found were expensive. But I do VERY little printing and don't want to be forced to

Re: printer

2012-09-19 Thread Steve G.
Get a laser printer, HP and Brother are Linux friendly, but check available models online. I have used both with Linux. Not sure about Israel, in the US you pay for the ink more than for the printer. Especially if you don't use it much, it dries and dies anyway. And the printer is not programmed t

Re: printer

2012-09-19 Thread Omer Zak
I have good experience with Brother MFC-490CW. It combines ink jet color printing, photocopying, scanning and FAXing. There is a separate ink cartridge for each color - total 4. --- Omer On Wed, 2012-09-19 at 18:45 +0300, Constantine Shulyupin wrote: > Which multifunctional printer for home (SO

Re: printer

2012-09-19 Thread Ori Idan
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Constantine Shulyupin < co...@makelinux.co.il> wrote: > Which multifunctional printer for home (SOHO) would you recommend to > purchase from available currently in Israel? > Which store network? > I have HP OfficeJet 4500 works great with Ubuntu, I don't remember

Re: printer recommendations, CISS

2008-03-13 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Michael, > I agree with the observation that HP is the best of the major printer > manufacturers with respect to Linux. I recently purchased a Canon iP4300 and > had to make do, at first, with using one third party driver for monochrome > printing and another for color. Only lately has Ca

RESEND: SOLVED: Re: Printer problem after upgrade from Debian Sarge to Debian Etch

2007-06-03 Thread Omer Zak
NOTE: The following E-mail message was not delivered due to the problem mentioned in the recent message by Michael Vasiliev, the Linux-IL moderator. After he informed us of what happened, I am resending this message. Original message -=-=-=-=-=-=-> The problem was solved - turns out that I neede

Re: [ :-) ] Re: printer driver issue.

2004-10-25 Thread David Harel
OK, I was not aware of the story not to mention the acronym RMS. Sorry for the ignorance. Omer Zak wrote: Hello David, I apologize if you were offended by my sarcasm-sounding message. It was not my intention. My intention was only to laugh about the situation - that someone has a problem with non

Re: [ :-) ] Re: printer driver issue.

2004-10-25 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 12:11:30PM +0200, Daniel Feiglin wrote: > I don't understand the sarcasm either. Sarcasm is the cheapest form of wit. Omer did not intend to be saracastic, he only refered to Richard Stallman, who quit MIT after getting a printer with no source for the printer driver, being

Re: [ :-) ] Re: printer driver issue.

2004-10-25 Thread David Harel
Thank you for your reply but, It seems to me you confused things. The printer is physically attached to a MS machine and is shared. It works OK on the MS machine. All I want to do is use it from my Linux. I do not see what it has to do with samba server part. As it seems to me, the files I want t

Re: [ :-) ] Re: printer driver issue.

2004-10-25 Thread Daniel Feiglin
I don't understand the sarcasm either. Sarcasm is the cheapest form of wit. I have a similar setup with Win 98 SE clients using an HP 5550 on a Linux/Samba setup. (For what it's worth, I'm using SuSE 9.1, kernel 2.6.5-7.111, KDE 3.2 and Samba 3.0.2a-5.1) 1. Set up your printer under Linux using

Re: [ :-) ] Re: printer driver issue.

2004-10-25 Thread Omer Zak
Hello David, I apologize if you were offended by my sarcasm-sounding message. It was not my intention. My intention was only to laugh about the situation - that someone has a problem with none other than a printer driver!!! Several years after RMS had his printer driver problem. Anyway, the theor

Re: [ :-) ] Re: printer driver issue.

2004-10-25 Thread David Harel
I really don't understand your sarcasm. I guess you are making a fool of me but I still didn't get it. Yet I do not know how to fix the problem. Is it a driver issue or merely a setup issue I did not do correctly? Omer Zak wrote: Of course, the printer driver is having a serious problem. You'll

[ :-) ] Re: printer driver issue.

2004-10-24 Thread Omer Zak
Of course, the printer driver is having a serious problem. You'll need to found a big organization to have the world get rid of the problem. You have precedents in the form of the FSF and RMS (who had his own printer driver troubles). (I just could not resist saying this, as the GNU and GPL st

Re: Printer help (Phaser 3110) - solved

2003-09-23 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Shachar Shemesh wrote: Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Have u managed to print in 1200 DPI? with which driver? I used KDE control center with the PPD that came with the Xerox CD and installed the printer, but I'm getting at best 600 DPI.. Thanks, Hetz I tired tweaking the PPD, but it wouldn't print. My me

Re: Printer help (Phaser 3110) - solved

2003-09-23 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: On Monday 22 September 2003 23:26, Shachar Shemesh wrote: WOW, what a support forum! My printer has been non-working in Linux for MONTHS! I post a question to this forum, and within an hour and a half, I have an answer! Thanks, guys, you are the best. Here's a trick f

Re: Printer help (Phaser 3110) - solved

2003-09-23 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
On Monday 22 September 2003 23:26, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > WOW, what a support forum! > > My printer has been non-working in Linux for MONTHS! I post a question > to this forum, and within an hour and a half, I have an answer! Thanks, > guys, you are the best. Here's a trick for you (we have the

Re: Printer help (Phaser 3110) - solved

2003-09-22 Thread Shachar Shemesh
WOW, what a support forum! My printer has been non-working in Linux for MONTHS! I post a question to this forum, and within an hour and a half, I have an answer! Thanks, guys, you are the best. Enabling debug logs by changing "LogLevel" in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, I could get a detailed output of

Re: printer consumer report (and ISP consumer report - thanks)

2000-05-04 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Alex Shnitman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't know about DJ-815C, but we have DJ-820Cxi at work here and it > only does PPA and not PCL. So I'd be careful with DJ-815C. I ended up talking to HP support. 815C speaks PCL level 3. They say it is very similar to 895 (which works fine in our of

Re: printer consumer report (and ISP consumer report - thanks)

2000-05-04 Thread Alex Shnitman
Hi, Oleg! On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 12:14:59AM +0300, you wrote the following: > HP DJ-815C. My impression is, you can never tell with HP. I am sure > the printer is quite decent, but does it speak PCL? The Office Depot > guys gave me the HP support phone number - I'll try to find out. The > blood

Re: printer consumer report (and ISP consumer report - thanks)

2000-05-02 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > printing-howto-4 is the 5th page in the printing-howto you found so > useless. True, but it itself was not useful to me because it has a terse list of supported printers where I didn't find the models I was interested in. I was reading the howto on a com

Re: printer consumer report (and ISP consumer report - thanks)

2000-05-01 Thread Ira Abramov
On 1 May 2000, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > Printing-HOWTO and Printing-Usage-HOWTO didn't discuss specific > printer models. > > Well, more search revealed that there is Printing-HOWTO-4 in a number printing-howto-4 is the 5th page in the printing-howto you found so useless. > > http://www.linux

Re: printer consumer report (and ISP consumer report - thanks)

2000-05-01 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
It seems that there is no end to RTFM-ing and there is no limit to the number of ways a distro can be incomplete. I asked my question about printers after both searching the net and going through the docs on 2 RH6.* systems (6.0 and 6.2). I found nothing really useful, as Printing-HOWTO and Print

Re: PRINTER

2000-01-09 Thread Shaul Karl
Hello, If you'll end up deciding to buy a non expensive BW laser postscript printer please drop me a line. I might buy one myself in the very near future so hopefully buying 2 printers at a time might get us a better deal. In particular, I am considering the Lexmark Optra E310. I have an

Re: PRINTER

2000-01-08 Thread Ohad M. Somjen
HI, The Brother HL-1050 is a B/W laser printer that is supirior to the HP6 and runs perfectly under Linux (with LJ6 emu). no paper stuck since the paper goes straight (L) and not in circles (U). and better resolution. On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Ira Abramov wrote: > On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Tal Fainberg wrot

Re: PRINTER

2000-01-08 Thread Ira Abramov
On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Tal Fainberg wrote: > Hi list, > I need recommendation to buy a good printer(not an expansive one) that > have windows and linux (RH) drivers . > Most of printings are text(html,doc),postscript docs. if no color needed, there are excellent cheap models in the HPLJ 6 series, o

Re: PRINTER

2000-01-08 Thread Adi Stav
On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 02:38:59PM +0200, Tal Fainberg wrote: > Hi list, > I need recommendation to buy a good printer(not an expansive one) that > have windows and linux (RH) drivers . > Most of printings are text(html,doc),postscript docs. I'm using Epson's STYLUS series very happily. Good qual

Re: Printer Drivers for HP 694C

1999-10-28 Thread Nir Simionovich \(Rin Solo\)
Hi Daniel, On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Daniel Feiglin wrote: > Does anyone know where (if anywhere) you can get Linux drivers for HP > 9x printers, particularly > HP 694C. Nothing on HP's site & couldn't find anything at linuxberg. I have a 695C printer, and used the driver that comes with RedHat 6.

Re: parallel port and USB (was Re: Printer Drivers for HP 694C)

1999-10-28 Thread Dorit Ben-Shalom
>Sony VAIO (anyone in Israel got one?) My Sony VAIO 505g is my only machine (anywhere on this earth). Thanks Dorit = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the co

Re: parallel port and USB (was Re: Printer Drivers for HP 694C)

1999-10-28 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, Regarding USB development, I'm subscrbied to the USB Mailing list, and I follow it daily. The status as for today is there is support: * Mouse - works perfectly, but still breaks.. * Keyboard - works ok * Audio (USB speakers without the need of sound cards) - Can play an audio signal - but

Re: parallel port and USB (was Re: Printer Drivers for HP 694C)

1999-10-27 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > BTW - what's the status on USB for Linux ?? I recently read in PC > Magazine that most scanner manufacturers are dumping SCSI and moving > to USB. And of course modems, mice, etc have been on the market for a > while. > USB support will be included in

parallel port and USB (was Re: Printer Drivers for HP 694C)

1999-10-27 Thread Shlomo Solomon
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999 18:25:34 +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: >Note that given enough persistance and a taste for reverse engineering, >even that problem can be overcome. For example, I have a HP 720C color ..snip ... >http://www.httptech.com/ppa/ > >and to ghostscript, I now print on this prin

Re: Printer Drivers for HP 694C

1999-10-27 Thread Daniel Feiglin
Alex Rier wrote: >Hi, > >I use magicfilter & lprng packages. >It has all you need, including PS emulation. Will try. > > >Good luck, > >Alex Rier| >System Administrator | Tel: +972-52-442549 >Breakthrough Ltd.| FAX: +972-3-6356434 >http://www.breakt.co.il

Re: Printer Drivers for HP 694C

1999-10-27 Thread Daniel Feiglin
Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: >Hi, > >Some details needed here... > >Is this printer a win-printer? (if it is - it has a sticker that it Nope. > >works on Windows 98/95/NT only) - if so - you're out of luck currently. > >If not - you can use the printer configuration on your Linux >distribution to set

Re: Printer Drivers for HP 694C

1999-10-26 Thread Schlomo Schapiro
There is an addon for GhostScript called hpdj. It provides better PCL 3 support for all PCL based printer of the DeskJet series (including abnormal resolutions, greyscale IIRC even colors). Go for GhostScript first and if you don't find it there you can go to www.suse.com and download their GS pa

Re: Printer Drivers for HP 694C

1999-10-26 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote about "Re: Printer Drivers for HP 694C": > Printer Language Host-based printing with PCL 4 MS-DOS emulation > ^^^ > > This means that the windows drivers generate a bit map of

Re: Printer Drivers for HP 694C

1999-10-26 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Dorit Ben-Shalom wrote: > Any chance any of this stuff works for the notoriously > difficlut HP 3100 (all-in-one laserjet)? No, none at all. >From their web page: >http://www.pandi.hp.com:80/pandi-db/prodinfo.product_specs?product=laserjet3100 Printer Language

RE: Printer Drivers for HP 694C

1999-10-26 Thread Dorit Ben-Shalom
>I use magicfilter & lprng packages. Any chance any of this stuff works for the notoriously difficlut HP 3100 (all-in-one laserjet)? Thanks Dorit = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the

RE: Printer Drivers for HP 694C

1999-10-26 Thread Alex Rier
Hi, I use magicfilter & lprng packages. It has all you need, including PS emulation. Good luck, Alex Rier| System Administrator | Tel: +972-52-442549 Breakthrough Ltd.| FAX: +972-3-6356434 http://www.breakt.co.il | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original M