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On Wednesday 06 June 2007 22:17, christopher.berry1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Posted by "berry christopher" <christopher.berry1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Dear All, > Just to let you know that I am happily scanning. I read that HP was more > likely to be Linux friendly than Epson so I surfed some more and found a > site where it was claimed that the HP (All-in-one) Photosmart 3170/3180 > worked immediately in Ubuntu! I purchased the 3180 from my local > supermarket (guess where) this afternoon for the princely sum of £39.99, > popped it on and in less than 30 seconds Gimp was wanting to Acquire an > image which it duly did and then printed! In Vista the whole procedure of > setting up - I kid you not - took a little over a quarter of an hour! All I > have to do is to find a suitable OCR programme that works to my needs and I > shall cast off Vista - in which I still can't 'Update' or get onto > www.microsoft.com - but who cares now! A happy Grandad Berry! > -- Good to hear that Grandad :) Complete with scanner for under forty quid and Linux friendly! Our HP scanner sadly does not work - well, I believe there is a sane driver for it now, but it is still very poor, black and white, low res only. Mark -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html