Multi-function printer anyone?

English Hardware
1

I need a multi-function printer for my yoga laptop running openSUSE Tumbleweed. I’ve not got access to masses of choice where I am in Crete so it’s all a matter of finding what’s available and checking the specs.

Currently I’m looking at

  • Epson eco-tank L2351
  • HP smart-tank 515

Anybody out there got either of these up and running with Tumbleweed?

I’m not too worried about the printer driver side of things but I have an old Epson scanner back in the UK that I never could get to work with Linux and Epson never seemed to want to know about Linux so I’m wary of spending the money on the Epson and either never getting it to scan or having to run a Windoze VM whenever I need to do some scanning.

1 Like
2

For HP, the important thing is the version of HPLIP; running 3.21.10, I find there are drivers for the smart tank 500, 510 and 530. Based on previous experience, I would expect the 510 to work with the 515 but there may be a later version of HPLIP with a specific driver for the 515.

3

I am being recommended a Canon Maxify GX6050. But I ask myself how to be sure of driver support. The list of Canon drivers under YaST or Cups does not seem to include the GX6050. I’m running OS Leap 15.4 on Desktop and Laptop. Must I worry about that?

4

FWIW, I did find this page…

Towards the bottom of the page, there are links to RPM package archives (printer and scanner packages) supporting this model.

1 Like
5

Wow. My searches were fruitless. MANY THANKS.

1 Like
6

Brother is another option. I have a brother laser printer installed on my Dell Precision desktop. It works flawlessly.

7

I finally went with the Epson eco-tank L2351 and it works fine over WiFi.

For the Scanner function - I installed Epson’s Scan2 downloaded from the website - which also seems to work with Skanlite.

For the Print function - I downloaded and installed the CUPS driver and used used YaST to configure it, although, when I came to set it up on the wife’s old 32bit Debian machine I just added a printer in CUPS, which was dead easy - easier than YaST in fact.

Fortunately my in-laws had the duplex version of this printer so I took my laptop over and tested it on that machine before buying

1 Like
8

glad to see it is solved

Epson eco-tank
it is what i use

but you need to install the linux driver from the Epson web site

9

Was your old scanner an XP-245 or 247? If so, RPM files are available should you desire them. I have always considered – due to this – EPSON’s support to be adequate for Linux, so your experience somewhat worries me if you refer to a later model.