15 Sep
2011
15 Sep
'11
12:06 p.m.
Ken Restivo wrote:
I don't need to print often, and when I do, I just
go into Office
Depot and use their printers (11 cents per page, not bad). But lately
I've been thinking it'd be convenient to have a printer sometimes.
So when I was last in Office Depot, I walked over to the printer
section and started looking around. And the sales guy came up and
asked me if he could help.
I said "I'm just looking for a printer that doesn't suck, and where
the cost of the ink cartridges isn't more than the printer costs".
And the sales guy said, "Well, if you invent one, let me know". And a
customer who was standing behind me turned around and said, "Yeah,
let me know too!"
That said. Is there no-one who will rid the world of printers that
suck, and whose cartridges cost more than the printer?
Does such a mythical beast as an affordable, reliable printer whose
cartridges don't cost more than the printer, really not exist?
(Also, works with CUPS on Linux, in such a way that it actually
presents useful ERROR MESSAGES, instead of just unhelpfully blinking
a light over and over with no details as to what exactly is wrong?)
I figured I'd ask this group.
We've been using HP LaserJets for ages here at home. Currently have a
LaserJet P2015D (can automatically print both sides of a sheet). They
work fine with CUPS. You get a LOT of pages out of a toner cartridge
(typical average figures are 3000 pages). I think in the last 12 years
of using laser printers, we've only had to buy 2 replacement cartridges.
They print MUCH faster than inkjets!
There are other brands out there, too. I've heard good things about
Brother laser printers. They're cheaper than HPs.
Ages back, I used a Lexmark 4039 laser printer. It was a workhorse -
never broke down even though it was old when I inherited it. Never had a
paper jam. Of course, the 4039s weren't "affordably priced" printers ...
The same employer had an HP LaserJet I (yes, the first HP laser jet
printer) hooked up to their mainframe and used it to print out daily
financial reports. Roughly 300-500 pages each day, 7 days a week. I
worked there 13 years. They'd had it for I don't know how many years
before that. A few years before I left there, it finally quit printing -
because a tooth on a small plastic wheel inside had FINALLY broken. They
could have gotten the replacement part from HP and repaired it, but they
decided it was time to get a faster laser ...
Anyway, I've like HP lasers very much since then.
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David
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