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
> 
> 
> 
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