[ale] Printers stink

[James P. Kinney III]

On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 09:20 -0400, Calvin Harrigan wrote:

> I take it that you HAVE to do color printing.  If you don't you should 
> really consider a laser printer. They have come down in price, yes they 
> cost more up front but it's cheaper per page. Doesn't suffer from head 
> blockage, dried up ink, and the host of other ink jet issues.  I bought 
> a Brother on sale at staples about a year ago for $89 on sale.  Toner 
> cartridges are about $50, prints about 5 reems per cartridge.  It's even 
> Linux compatible.  ;-)
> 
> Get the network version of the printer above and have all B&W go that 
> printer and keep a couple of the HP Inkjets on a print server (linksys 
> or something) and direct all color prints to those.


That is the plan. In fact, there is a Linux-friendly Samsung color laser
printer that I'm eyeballing. 85% of my printing needs are B/W so a a
cheap printer is just fine. They real use of the HP POS is the scan to
PDF and email it. That is quite nice. But that product line has been
dropped (to buggy to continue support on) and even the HP sponsored
HPLIP project doesn't expect to ever have full support for the 9100
series. The last firmware fix was 2004.
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