Re: printer advice
Kim Holburn via linux-aus <[email protected]>
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I have an old Brother DCP-6690CW MFP which I keep because it's a great A3 scanner. If I plug a USB memory stick into it it will scan to the stick. Much simpler than messing with network scanning. On 2023/05/31 8:06 am, Russell Stuart via linux-aus wrote: > The scanners on the MFP's are a different story. Mine scans (it's a > ET-5170). But getting scanners to work has always been a struggle for > me. The ET-5170 does scan from my laptop (and phone) using the Epson > supplied close source binary. It's GUI looked very pretty on start up > but isn't particularly ergonomic, and it segfaults on occasion. In my > experience that's par for the course for vendor supplied software. If > you can find a scanner supported by SANE you can use open source > software, which will be more reliable. I couldn't. -- Kim Holburn IT Network & Security Consultant +61 404072753 mailto:[email protected] aim://kimholburn skype://kholburn - PGP Public Key on request _______________________________________________ linux-aus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to [email protected]