I'm running an HP Photosmart 3210 (basically, a consumer version of the same printer). All my boxen talk directly to the printer. That is, I don't have any system dedicated as a printer server. I've found that HP's opensource drivers as packaged for Suse (10.0, 10.1) work quite well for both printing and scanning. I will need to review my config at home tonight to provide some specific recommendations. For example, I know I had to uncomment a section of the SANE config to get scanning working on any system in which I wished to scan. For printing, I just treat it like any old HP jetdirect and follow the CUPS configuration wizard to set it up. > -----Original Message----- > From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org > [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Randy Clarksean > Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 1:26 PM > To: tclug > Subject: [tclug-list] Print Server / Firewall, Etc. > > First .. thanks for the KVM emails this past week. You > helped me narrow in on some hardware that will work for what I need. > > I will be moving my office shortly and I want to "clean up" a > number of messy network issues that have created themselves > over time ... laziness or hurrying to get something to work > ... I need to streamline some things. > > One is a print and file server. > > Concern: I want to be able to run my HP OfficeJet 6310xi > All-in-One via the printer server ... and ... have the > ability to scan documents, etc. > to a computer, whether it be a Linux or Windows box. It is a > USB connection ... or can be connected via the network itself > (I believe that its capabilities are limited for Linux when > hooked up on the network connection). > > Hooking it straight to a Linux box ... appears to have > limited some of its capabilities already. The scanning of > documents is flakey ... and sometimes does not work at all. > > Anyone have any experience to share with me about print > servers and the ability to actually take full advantage of > all features from one of these all in ones? Maybe I am doing > something wrong ... fancy that :-) > > Thanks in advance. > > Randy > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >