Re: [Geek] Linux question

August West wrote:
Does anyone know of a scanner/printer combo machine that works with
Linux?

Ideally, as out-of-the-box as possible, cos I:m geting lazy (or to
busy) in my old age. I'm running Ubuntu 5.10, on an HP zd8000
laptop. One wrinkle of this machine is that while it has both USB and
FireWire, it has no serial or parallel ports


Check the SANE website.

http://www.sane-project.org/

You can check and see if a scanner is supported (by
model) here.

http://www.sane-project.org/cgi-bin/driver.pl
.

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