Re: [tlug] Printers

["Arwyn Hainsworth" <arwynh@example.com>]

On 13/05/07, Darren Cook <darren@example.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I looked at Laser printers at Bic Camera, but wasn't sure of linux
> compatibility (or rather, the only ones that explicitly said either
> linux or postscript support were big and expensive). So for the moment I
> bought another Epson cyan cartridge, at 850 yen, to get my urgent
> print-out done.
>
> The Brother HL2040 at 16,800 (plus 20% points, making it about 13,500
> yen) looks good, not too bulky, and now I'm home again I find it seems
> to have good linux support [1][2]. The built in toner will do 1500
> pages, which is 2+ years for me, and a replacement cartridge was around
> 5-6000 yen and will do 2500 pages.
>
> If they'd mentioned the linux support in the brochure I'd have bought it
> on the spot.

They do support Linux. But it seems to have a few[1] problems none the less.

[1] http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Brother-HL-2040