[ILUG] HP C6180 inkjet printer/scanner/&tc - comments?

[Brian Foster]

 I'm looking into replacing my still-defunct Epson inkjet
 with an HP inkjet (based mostly on comments in this e-list).
 both colour and excellent text (print) quality are mandatory.
 (ATM, that rules affordable lasers.)

 the unit which has currently caught my eye is the HP C6180,
 for four-ish reasons:  it's currently on sale locally (for
 what works out to be essentially the USA price (but only
 until the end of this week!)), it has separate cartridges
 for each colour, it is also a scanner, and a (quick) search
 suggests both the printer and scanner work with Linux (at
 least over USB, which is how I will be connecting to it).

 that same quick search suggests the negative comments fall
 into two categories:  crap Windross and/or WiFi software
 (don't care);  and inflated speed claims (HP says 32(?)ppm,
 real world says slow to start up and then prints c.12ppm
 (another don't really care)).

 does anyone have any comments or suggestions, good, bad,
 or otherwise?  (it will be connected, via USB(-1), to a
 SUSE 9.2 box.)

cheers!
	-blf-
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