[iBook] All in one printer/fax/copier for Mac?

[Fred Stevens K2FRD]

I had (still have) an HP 1300 series all-in-one printer-copier-scanner. The printer worked very well, the copier worked OK, the scanner had low resolution. The scanner went into error mode, would have to be reset frequently. Shortly thereabouts, the printer did the same. After about six months, the whole thing went into error mode and wouldn't come out of it. Part of the problem may have been I fed it through an inverter (I'm a fulltime RVer) which produced a square sine wave which, I've since found, certain peripherals don't like. I needed higher resolution anyway, so I bought a replacement scanner with higher resolution and a new printer and now carry my old Canon IC420 copy machine. I kept the 3-in-1 to play around with it some day; I'm not convinced it can't be made to work off a generator rather than the inverter.


At 7:05 -0600 17/03/2006, Tom Legare wrote:
>The HP all-in-one's work well if you have a direct USB connection, but they network horribly with Macs if you try to put them on wireless or a print server.  For a direct USB connection, there are no problems.
> 
>The HP Director is software that loads at startup and always resident in the background so you can bring it forward at any time to do a fax/copy/scan.
> 
>I prefer to separately load scanning software when I need it, not to have it always running.
> 
>Tom

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