[GRLUG] linux friendly print/scan server device?

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 13:59 -0400, megadave wrote:
> Just to clarify:
> I'm not looking to buy a new $600 printer/scanner.
> I'm looking to buy a $30 box to connect to an existing printer/scanner
> via USB, and to my network via wired Ethernet.

At that price point there is no solution.

For ~$50-75 you can get USB-over-IP 'device servers'.

Like
<www.amazon.com/StarTech-Port-Device-Server-USB4000IP/dp/B0024G48MY>

I've talked to people who have used these successfully to control
industrial battery chargers; but your network needs to be really well
put together and the software is twitchy.

I haven't used them first-hand.

> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Adam Tauno Williams
> <awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 13:49 -0400, megadave wrote:
> >> *BUT* I can't seem to identify one of these types of devices for which
> >> the scanning function is either compatible with SANE-net, or even
> >> allows scanning from a web browser - everything seems to support
> >> scanning only with the included proprietary windows-only tool (some
> >> support Macs too).
> > I have a Brother MFC-9970CDW;  it will scan to SMTP or FTP and possibly
> > other targets.  It works great.  And you get a scanner with a document
> > feeder.
> > And it support IPv6.
> > <http://www.brothermall.com/MFC/ProdDetail?Model=MFC9970CDW>