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Hasn't pretty much every copier sold in the past 20 years essentially been an MFP anyway? And isn't it fairly obvious that once you're bringing in a scanner and
by mseebach 10y ago
Hasn't pretty much every copier sold in the past 20 years essentially been an MFP anyway? And isn't it fairly obvious that once you're bringing in a scanner and a printer anyway, you might as well expose them on the network as separate devices? (I use the scan-to-email function of the office "copier" fairly frequently myself, I print a bit too, but I practically never copy anything directly)
- SixSigma 10y agoyour email system might thank you if you used scan-to-SMB instead :)
- cptskippy 10y agoI've never seen that work, the I've manages was to save to USB and I was surprised it allowed that at all. Email works flawlessly every time.
- brazzledazzle 10y agoWhat? It's really simple. First figure out what version of SMB/CIFS you're using and if that's compatible. Then figure out if you have packet encryption enabled and if that's compatible. Then figure out if the compatibility issue you're still experiencing is due to the volume being served by a non-Windows appliance or server. If it's Windows dig through group policy settings applied and start toggling them on and off desperately until you're ready to explode. Then after days or weeks of packet captures and support calls find out it was a known issue and get a firmware patch from the MFP manufacturer. Easy.
- discreditable 10y agoI just went through all of that when upgrading our file server to 2012 R2. Would not recommend. SMTP is easier but has its own problems (such as file size limits).
- vetinari 10y agoWorks like charm - put in server ip address, share, username, password and it nicely puts every scan there. (We used Konica-Minolta machine and Synology NAS - i.e. Samba 4).
- brazzledazzle 10y agoI've had it go both ways. I've found it easier in the past if someone already compromised security by disabling signing. But that was a long time ago in another life. Things have probably changed a lot since.
- discreditable 10y agoScan to SMB is a pain. We had to have our copier company come out to upgrade the firmware on all of the devices when we moved to Server 2012. Even then, we have to enable SMB 1.0 for the feature to work.
- dv_dt 10y agoWhat drives me crazy is why are there always new drivers for printers? At this point isn't there more than enough compute power in the devices to supply a consistent abstract interface?
- i80and 10y agoThat "consistent abstract interface" is called PostScript. The last printer I bought was a Xerox PostScript printer, and with a few minor caveats, it's been lovely not having to putz with drivers.
- dv_dt 10y agoI've shopped for too many printers where all PostScript support means is you can shove PS into their front end driver.
- wmf 10y agoWere those Ethernet or USB? AFAIK PostScript + Ethernet has always meant an internal RIP with no driver needed.
- dv_dt 10y agoAt this point, I don't recall - I've gone over to only buying network capable printers as they do tend to be better about their drivers (still need somthing usually) - but the ones I've been looking at lately seem to speak some dialect of PCL.
- _JamesA_ 10y agoThe same is true with "PCL3 GUI". It's like the "Win-modem" fiasco all over again.
- rahimnathwani 10y agoYou mean like winprinters (aka GDI printers): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Device_Interface#GDI_printers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Device_Interface#GDI_...