Re: [LAU] OT: printers

On Wednesday 14 September 2011 21:35, Ken Restivo wrote: Well, the fact that you said "ink cartridges" probably means you're not interested in this, but we got a Brother HL-2140 laser a couple years ago from Newegg for 60 bucks and the generic toner available for it is about 25 bucks. We have it set up on our Linux server and access it from our Linux laptops through CUPS, and we've printed thousands of pages without a problem. It was totally plug and play under Ubuntu Hardy, so it's been around a while. Newegg has a newer model with duplex for 80 bucks as I type this, but it seems to have been a sale that ends tonight. I have no idea if the new ones still use the same driver. But it is black and white, and a laser, so not as energy-efficient as an inkjet. We got an HP Officejet 4500 g510n (they really need to rethink their naming scheme) all-in-one, mostly for scanning but do what little color printing we need to do on it. We had to mess around with it a bit to get it working on Ubuntu 9.10, but 10.04 and up seem fine. We're able to print to it and scan from it over wifi without hooking it up to a computer. A full set of first-party ink runs about 40 bucks, but we're still on our first set so I can't comment on how long they last.