Re: [tlug] Printers

[Rainer Schuermann <rainer@example.com>]

As my standard home office "heavy duty" printer I have a HP Business 
Inkjet 1100D which came at below 100 Euro. It is sufficiently fast, 
completely reliable, has four ink cartridges and separate printing 
heads and, as a bonus, prints on both sides; ink consumption is very 
reasonable. Using it for almost three years now and so far the best 
printer I ever had.
Works like a charm with cups / foomatic / hpijs in my Linux network, the 
one Windows machine (Japanese laptop of my wife...) talks to the print 
server box directly (no samba) without any hickups.

Rainer


On Saturday 12 May 2007 02:43:58 Darren Cook wrote:
> I hate printers. [Rant moved to the P.S.] I'm wondering if my "poor
> luck" is because I get a colour inkjet every time. Perhaps I should
> instead get a dedicated b/w laser printer, and one of those dedicated
> colour photo printers. (Our main need for colour is 30 nengajo once a
> year; our main need for b/w is my work, on the order of 30-50 A4
> pages a month.)
>
> I'd welcome any advice and experience reports on brands, models, etc.
> It/They will be connected to a fedora core 4 printer server, using
> samba, for both windows and linux clients.
>
> As my pile-of-steaming-Epson refuses to print out something fairly
> urgent unless I feed it another cartridge (see rant) I guess I need
> to buy a b/w printer this weekend.
>
> Darren
>
>
> P.S. I've been through all the manufacturers over the years and every
> time I have been dissatisfied. My current printer is Epson (PX-V500)
> which is highly irritating for telling me I have no ink in a
> cartridge when I can shake it and hear there is still plenty left.
> Even worse, is that it currently refuses to print out a black/white
> page because it is *nearly* out of *cyan* ink. This is after putting
> a new black ink cartridge in.
>
> So I'm at the stage of do I really want to spend another 850+ yen for
> a cyan cartridge or do I want to spend 10-20,000 yen on a low-stress
> printer and 1000 yen on a sledgehammer to hit the Epson with. The
> purse says one thing, my heart another...