[ILUG] Printer recommendations

[Chris Higgins]

On Fri, 5 Aug 2005 09:43:05 +0100
Niall O Broin <niall at linux.ie> wrote:

> The kids' inkjet being very unwell, and my old laser being about the 
> same, I'm in printer shopping mode. I'm looking for a low end colour 
> laser.

http://www.linuxprinting.org - normally pretty good at finding the printer
you want.. 

HP have done huge stuff with their Linux support... we have a couple of
HP printers and they work just perfectly. We even have desktop scanning
from one of the multifunction lasers ( everyone has xsane installed, and it's
net-configuration pulls from saned on a server with a usb connection to the
printer  - plonk a document on the flatbed, and scan to your desktop ;-)


>  Current front runner is the Dell 3100cn (because the cheaper 
> 3000cn is Windows only) which is very reasonably priced, and is 
> currently on a 20% off promotion, so I can get it with 3 year NBD on 
> site warranty for a little less then the HP 2550 which people also 
> recommend.

The HP2550 is the one recommended on the linuxprinting.org site.

The only other advice I'd give - is go for a printer that has multiple
separate ink tanks... dont' go for the all in one's - or you end up
throwing away half full tanks just because you've used all the
cyan or blue... 

Anyway - why are you looking for a printer  ? Have we finally
found something that emacs can't do for you ? Tsk tsk :-)

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Chris Higgins
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