This isn't exactly the straightest path to the goal, but it was an unexpected little discovery.
We've got a 3-in-1 for junky stuff - quick scans, faxes, no-hassle copying. Yesterday the second one died. Canon. Junk. Two years old, always babied, twelve cent part inside kacks and away ya go, Canon "service" tells you "Buy a new one ! That thing was so oooold ! "
Someone should put them to sleep when they get to be so ooooold .
Found that Xerox now makes an ethernet-connected color laser mfp with postscript. Yay ! Except they don't sell them here. Booo. Will have to get one later.
For right now, we grabbed a cheap used HP Officejet 8500. Except for being slow as molasses to wake up and sounding like two skeletons screwing in a tin can when it runs and the driver is about 150 megabytes, it's okay. Print quality is better than the Canon. Scanner is also good.
But the sooprize is, it will scan thru a web browser. It will scan over the network to Fireflop 3.0.19 on Irix, with decent quality.
Woo ! Hoo ! Not so bad. I imagine that the whole family (8500, 8600, whatever) does this. Maybe even other HP mfp's. It might be an option for other old abandoned hardware, as well. I haven't tried it on FFlop 2. Needs javascript (maybe) and popups (for sure) so probably Dillo is out. But I bet someone could extract whatever commands are going to the HP and make a little script that would capture a scan for almost anything that has ethernet.
The printer is kind of junky but still, pretty neat.
We've got a 3-in-1 for junky stuff - quick scans, faxes, no-hassle copying. Yesterday the second one died. Canon. Junk. Two years old, always babied, twelve cent part inside kacks and away ya go, Canon "service" tells you "Buy a new one ! That thing was so oooold ! "
Someone should put them to sleep when they get to be so ooooold .
Found that Xerox now makes an ethernet-connected color laser mfp with postscript. Yay ! Except they don't sell them here. Booo. Will have to get one later.
For right now, we grabbed a cheap used HP Officejet 8500. Except for being slow as molasses to wake up and sounding like two skeletons screwing in a tin can when it runs and the driver is about 150 megabytes, it's okay. Print quality is better than the Canon. Scanner is also good.
But the sooprize is, it will scan thru a web browser. It will scan over the network to Fireflop 3.0.19 on Irix, with decent quality.
Woo ! Hoo ! Not so bad. I imagine that the whole family (8500, 8600, whatever) does this. Maybe even other HP mfp's. It might be an option for other old abandoned hardware, as well. I haven't tried it on FFlop 2. Needs javascript (maybe) and popups (for sure) so probably Dillo is out. But I bet someone could extract whatever commands are going to the HP and make a little script that would capture a scan for almost anything that has ethernet.
The printer is kind of junky but still, pretty neat.
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