<p>I have two printers an HP photosmart for graphics / photo.<br>
And, a Minolta Konica color laser jet for text and and low resolution graphics. Picked up the Minolta at 50% off at Office Depot $300.00 USD. After 5 years of the signficant other printing off sheet music and my business proposals for customers I finally had to replace the black toner. Both printers have worked flawlessly under CentOS: 4, 5 & 6, Ubuntu desktop and when I finally got around to setting up a dedicated WiFi print server Ubuntu server edition.</p>
<p>Bubble jet printers are like razors they give away the handles and.make the profits off the replacement blades. </p>
<p>Of course living in Hawaii everything is more expensive, three years in Pearl Harbor made California seem cheap.</p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 15, 2011 3:06 AM, "david" <<a href="mailto:gnome@hawaii.rr.com">gnome@hawaii.rr.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> Ken Restivo wrote:<br>>> I don't need to print often, and when I do, I just go into Office<br>
>> Depot and use their printers (11 cents per page, not bad). But lately<br>>> I've been thinking it'd be convenient to have a printer sometimes.<br>>> <br>>> So when I was last in Office Depot, I walked over to the printer<br>
>> section and started looking around. And the sales guy came up and<br>>> asked me if he could help.<br>>> <br>>> I said "I'm just looking for a printer that doesn't suck, and where<br>
>> the cost of the ink cartridges isn't more than the printer costs".<br>>> <br>>> And the sales guy said, "Well, if you invent one, let me know". And a<br>>> customer who was standing behind me turned around and said, "Yeah,<br>
>> let me know too!"<br>>> <br>>> That said. Is there no-one who will rid the world of printers that<br>>> suck, and whose cartridges cost more than the printer?<br>>> <br>>> Does such a mythical beast as an affordable, reliable printer whose<br>
>> cartridges don't cost more than the printer, really not exist?<br>>> <br>>> (Also, works with CUPS on Linux, in such a way that it actually<br>>> presents useful ERROR MESSAGES, instead of just unhelpfully blinking<br>
>> a light over and over with no details as to what exactly is wrong?)<br>>> <br>>> I figured I'd ask this group.<br>> <br>> We've been using HP LaserJets for ages here at home. Currently have a<br>
> LaserJet P2015D (can automatically print both sides of a sheet). They<br>> work fine with CUPS. You get a LOT of pages out of a toner cartridge<br>> (typical average figures are 3000 pages). I think in the last 12 years<br>
> of using laser printers, we've only had to buy 2 replacement cartridges.<br>> They print MUCH faster than inkjets!<br>> <br>> There are other brands out there, too. I've heard good things about<br>> Brother laser printers. They're cheaper than HPs.<br>
> <br>> Ages back, I used a Lexmark 4039 laser printer. It was a workhorse - <br>> never broke down even though it was old when I inherited it. Never had a <br>> paper jam. Of course, the 4039s weren't "affordably priced" printers ...<br>
> <br>> The same employer had an HP LaserJet I (yes, the first HP laser jet <br>> printer) hooked up to their mainframe and used it to print out daily <br>> financial reports. Roughly 300-500 pages each day, 7 days a week. I <br>
> worked there 13 years. They'd had it for I don't know how many years <br>> before that. A few years before I left there, it finally quit printing - <br>> because a tooth on a small plastic wheel inside had FINALLY broken. They <br>
> could have gotten the replacement part from HP and repaired it, but they <br>> decided it was time to get a faster laser ...<br>> <br>> Anyway, I've like HP lasers very much since then.<br>> <br>> -- <br>
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