Thanks, all, OP here. My dad (whom the scanner is for...ain't it fun being the family IT guy?) wants a device that scans and faxes (to replace his current fax machine, which is breaking down). So I figure we're probably looking at all-in-ones, though it won't be used as a printer or copier much if at all.

He also wants it to be a laser printer, not an inkjet. He wants to drop 50 pages in it, press a button and walk away, and have a pdf automatically appear on his computer. So I assume a duplex scanner would be needed.

One thing I'm thinking would be to have the device always send scans to a dedicated share on the Linux file server so people can pick them up there. If there were a way to route PDFs of incoming faxes to the share, too, that would be cool. Of course, if there were a fax/scanner that didn't print but just put PDFs of everything on the network, that would be very cool as well.

Thoughts?

Thanks!