On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 10:12:49PM -0400, Rob wrote: > On Wednesday 14 September 2011 21:35, Ken Restivo wrote: > > I said "I'm just looking for a printer that doesn't suck, and where the > > cost of the ink cartridges isn't more than the printer costs". > > Well, the fact that you said "ink cartridges" probably means you're not > interested in this, but we got a Brother HL-2140 laser a couple years ago > from Newegg for 60 bucks and the generic toner available for it is about 25 > bucks. We have it set up on our Linux server and access it from our Linux > laptops through CUPS, and we've printed thousands of pages without a > problem. It was totally plug and play under Ubuntu Hardy, so it's been > around a while. Newegg has a newer model with duplex for 80 bucks as I > type this, but it seems to have been a sale that ends tonight. I have no > idea if the new ones still use the same driver. > > But it is black and white, and a laser, so not as energy-efficient as an > inkjet. We got an HP Officejet 4500 g510n (they really need to rethink > their naming scheme) all-in-one, mostly for scanning but do what little > color printing we need to do on it. We had to mess around with it a bit to > get it working on Ubuntu 9.10, but 10.04 and up seem fine. > > We're able to print to it and scan from it over wifi without hooking it up > to a computer. A full set of first-party ink runs about 40 bucks, but > we're still on our first set so I can't comment on how long they last. You > can find "remanufactured" (meaning refilled) ones for a little less, but I > don't think I've seen generic ink for it yet. I don't think I'd print my > family photos on it or anything, but my old standby Epson has really fallen > hard for the "charge more for the toner than the printer" model the last > few years. So, any port in a storm. > Thanks to everyone for replies! Yes, a laser would be a much better solution, since I only print black-and-white anyway most of the time. However, I hadn't even considered lasers, since the last laser printer I bought (and not with my own money) was like $5000 (in the early 1990s). But I guess they've come down a lot in price. A laser for US$60? That's awesome, and right in my price range. Thanks all. I'll have a look at some of the low-end lasers you mentioned, from HP, Lexmark, Brother, etc. Thanks! -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
