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Old 10-24-2005, 10:02 PM   #1
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Looking for a nice linux compatible printer.


I've browsed around linuxprinting.org and I've seen plenty of linux compatible printers. What I don't know is how well all of them use ink. Every printer I have ever owned has had the ink dry up if i don't print a couple pages a week. Not to mention now that I've become a linux user I've seen them listed as paperweights on linuxprinting.org.

Color printing isn't required, I rarely ever need color. It must have an ethernet jack as i'm planing for ip printing. I'd prefer a laserjet over an inkjet. I wish to keep this to under $500 dollars as well. Has to be listed as perfect on linuxprinting.org, I'm not going to spend my money on a printer that doesn't have full support on linux. It's like buying a action figure with a missing arm, most of the functionality is there but not all of it.

I don't print very often but when i do i print like 15-30 pages a job. I have occasional under 15 pg print jobs but they are scarce. The rest of my family doesn't print much either. My mom's the only "heavy" printer around, printing off like 3-8 pages a job with about 10 jobs a day, most of which she throws out because she found mistakes. I keep telling her to proof read before you print. I bet if I make her cough up the dough for ink cartridges she'll have an incentive to proof read. Anyways...

I've got these laserjets in mind:
HP LaserJet 1220
HP LaserJet 1320
Brother HL-5170DN
Brother HL-7050N
ML-2151NPS

And these inkjets:
HP DeskJet 6840
HP Business Inkjet 1200

Anyone know if these are any good or know of better ones? Thanks.
 
Old 10-25-2005, 04:31 AM   #2
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I did some window shopping a while ago and the Kyocera FS-1020DN looked quite attractive. Some nice points:

Duplex printing (save a LOT of paper).
Postscript emulation (so should avoid any driver problems)
Supposed to be economical on toner (forget the exact comparison).

I thought it was also a linuxprinting recommendation, but the site seems to be off the air at present.

Network printers seem overpriced in general, so I would be wanting to get some other features not available on low-end mono lasers. Duplex/Postscript/Economy seems like a good combination.
 
Old 10-25-2005, 01:32 PM   #3
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I've been fairly happy with my HP LaserJet 1012, except that there is a bug in the printer where I have to reboot it every now and then (prints single page with "Unsupported PCL personality"). It would be a fatal flaw if it wasn't so cheap!
 
  


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