I recently bought a multi-function device printer scanner (HP Color LaserJet CM1312nfi MFP). Setup on openSUSE 11.1 was pretty painless with the hplip package (version 3.9.2) from packman. The original openSUSE package would core dump. Duh.
Today, I had a strange error all of a sudden:
scan/sane/soapht.c 486: unable to open device hp:/net/HP_Color_LaserJet_CM1312nfi_MFP?ip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx io/hpmud/jd.c 84: unable to read device-id
Of course, I hadn’t changed anything in my setup … until I remembered that, for security reasons, I had disabled SMNP in the web interface of the printer. Guess what, after enabling “SNMP-Lese-Schreib-Zugriff aktivieren” (“Activate SNMP-Read-Write access”), the error went away.
For the record: Most functions of the device are accessible from Linux:
- Color printing
- Scanner
- Automatic document feeder (ADF)
- Remote printing and scanning
I haven’t yet managed to make the “Scan to PC” button on the front of the device work but that’s just a minor issue for me.
The price/performance ratio is very good. The printouts look very good and the ADF could cope with all media that I’ve fed him so far (even these thin, glossy, cohesive catalogue pages; you just have to spoon feed them one at a time).
The scanner is good, but not top notch. The quality of the scans is OK, colors are pretty close to the original but the images could be sharper. The scanner uses a CCD line, so no warmup time (if you don’t have to switch on the whole machine).
If you want better quality color copies, set the resolution to 300 DPI (factory setting is a poor 150 DPI which makes thin lines really smear).
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