I have not found reason for HP support service for the printers or
computers using Linux. The printer portion works fine, but gave it up
for a brother laser a year ago. I got tired of replacing dried up ink
cartridges. The scanner is also plug and play using the scanner utility
in Linux.

Not needing Fax I can't say, but if you can scan something there is no
reason you couldn't send it. I have used acfax to get weather fax so
Linux is quite capable of most of this stuff.

The Kodak printer can be made to work on Linux, but the quality of print
is better using Windows. My feeling on printers? Don't buy from
manufactures that state they don't support Linux, it's just that
simple. Hackers workarounds for these items are less than satisfactory.
You wouldn't buy Toyota parts for a BMW, and I bet Toyota would tell you
they don't support BMW. Why would anyone expect Linux users to be
tolerant of companies that don't produce product for our community?

One more note. If a companies web site says it supports Linux, the
drivers are likely in the kernel and are likely plug and play. Many
times special software supplied with a product is not supported on
Linux, but who would install a program from disk not tested by the
distros developers/testers anyhow?

Bottom line, Hp printers work out of the box, at least most of them. If
you are tired of dried up ink cartridges, by a laser printer, I like my
brother. If I had to do color I could buy a cartridge for the all in one
HP printer that contains the scanner I do use regularly.