[mdlug] Cups printer/scanner

[Michael Newman]

Hello everyone,

I am new to the area and the group and have been really enjoyed the  
topics of the last few weeks, and I need a bit of advice from you  
experts as I am moving my work experience of Linux to my personal  
network and day-to-day computing.

Yesterday was black Friday, and looking at sales we saw quite a few  
printers that were really great. My home network is all connected to  
base ubuntu server 7.10 and my current lexmark x7100 series, which  
worked great on my old Windows network that I am desperately getting  
rid of, doesn't have any support according to internet searches.

I know there are drivers that work with hp printers, but do the  
scanners work well too? How do they work in a shared environment? What  
level of difficulty work it take to install this on my network? Has  
anyone done this with an hp printer? Lastly, but not least, anyone  
have any recommendations of a linux compatable scanner/printer/copier  
that prints photographs (high quality).

Thanks,

Michael Newman