RE: Cheap printer?
FWIW
Got into a tangle on another mailing list regarding inks, but here goes
anyway.
I buy Amazon inks for my Epson Stylus 800 and had no problems until I tried
bulk ink and refilling cartridges. Print quality went south and is recovering
with a return to new cartridges, but still not up to snuff.
Ditto for a friend of mine with a Canon.
Bill Barnes
>===== Original Message From Harald Thingelstad <thingels@powertech.no> =====
>On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Vicente Torres wrote:
>...
>> So, I must return it and buy another printer.
>> Wich one would you recommend to me?
>> It must be cheap; I do not want to use color on my printings
>> and it must work fine with linux.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>
>First: What kind of a cheap printer do you want?
>The inkjet printers are known to be cheap to buy, but they charge a leg
>and an arm for the ink.
>Some manufacturers are known to sell their printers with a net *loss*,
>earning their money on ink alone. Let's say you have to change the
>cartridges twice a year, for keeping them from drying out alone, and I
>guess you have paid the printer over again in two years!
>
>Nope, if you're not interested in colors, buy a laser. The cartridges are
>perhaps even more expensive, but they last many times longer.
>
>You can, of course, get refiller ink for both types, and this makes inkjet
>printers look a little brighter. Be sure to find a place where you
>actually can *buy* this sort of stuff, as I'm sure original ink pays the
>shops better and the printer manufacturers shun no means of telling you
>unoriginal ink might destroy your printer. ("Fat chance!", in many cases.)
>Anyway.
>Buy the next cheapest you can get, the absolute cheapest ones tend to be
>money out your window.
>
>Second:
>What type of printer?
>Check the compatibility lists.
>This means, the "Hardware HOWTO" in your HOWTO archive. If you don't have
>any, install the necessary package(s).
>
>Harald
>
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>No more advanced than before.
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>
>
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