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The S 400 is a small and comparatively cheap printer, sufficient for small jobs at a home computer. It comes with parallel (and, it I remember correctly, optionally with USB) port connector(s).
Black and white and color (CYM) printouts are possible. For older distros one had to use the S3000 or BJ600 drivers, for the details go to http://www.linuxprinting.org/ they have detailed instructions.
While unknown to the internal printer databank of SuSE 8.1 it has its own driver with SuSE 9.0 (and I guess the other more modern distros). I have not tried the driver from http://www.turboprint.de/english.html which are said to be fast(er) and produce high quality color prints, so take your pick.
Quality of color-printing is good (for my untrained eyes) I have no idea whether good enough for photos, but it is relatively slow. Black and white is faster but a long way from break neck speed.
Summary: reasonably priced little gadget with color abilities for the odd few pages produced at home.
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printer ink bubble color
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Parallel (USB optional)
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03-17-2004, 01:04 AM
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Registered: Apr 2003
Distribution: openSuSE 12.3_64-KDE, Ubuntu 12.04, Fedora 17, Mint 14, Chakra
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 0
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Addendum: The WinNT 4.0 printer driver has a setting which lets the printer start on demand.
That is, after activating that setting one can let the printer be switched off (but the power cord connected ;)) and it will start up on request i.e. when a job is in a queue even from Linux. I have not found (and not really searched for) that feature under Linux.
More Information: I discontinued using the S400 due to permanent problems with the ink. If one doesn't use the printer on a daily basis but rather ervery other week the ink will dry in the jets and even the intensive cleaning routine doesn't clear it (I had to remove the head and soak it in solvents). After several times clogging now the head seems to be damaged (don't know whether that is so or just a erroneous error message). So now I bought a laser printer -- the toner won't dry up on me for sure ;).
P.S.: Can't sell or even donate the thing ... "Just throw it away" is the universal answer :(.
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