Re: Contemplating new MFC color laser printer purchase
Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 02 April 2016 09:52:58 deloptes wrote:
>
>> Gene Heskett wrote:
>> > Does anyone know if the scanner in a Dell H625cdw MFC is recognized
>> > by xsane?
>>
>> http://www.sane-project.org/sane-backends.html
>>
>> I do not think so.
>>
>> I bought Epson 33/330 and I've been using it with the Epsons iscan
>> tool (v.2.30) over 3y now. It works great for me.
>
> I have never been able to make iscan work here, at least in earlier
> versions as its been 3 years or more since the last time. xsane Just
> Works(TM) with an NX515 I bought several years ago, and whose nozzles
> clogged in 2 weeks. Staples said I had to send it back to Epson, but I
> recalled I had been spending $150 bucks for ink every 90 days to keep
> the previous epson ink squirter working just because the only way I
> could keep the nozzles clean was to have amanda print its backup report
> every night, using up the ink.
>
I did some research before buying the 30-330 and it payed off. If you print
a lot it's cheaper to use laser - especially such one, that can use the
black when low or empty color cart. I don't print a lot in color, so B/W
laser and separate color ink are just best solution.
I did also some research on multi function devices (scaner/fax/printer), but
only the more expensive are reliable and usable under linux (perhaps also
under windows).
> So I voted with my wallet, and bought a Brother HL-3170CDW color laser,
> but it never worked really well, and has now died, drum error for all 4
> drums, which my C.E.T. mind says is a high voltage failure, but the
> brother techs won't hear of it, saying I need to replace all 4 drums at
> $150/copy. Drums rated for 15,000 pages each, and have nominally 3700
> pages of use? Thats 600 bucks when I can buy a new one now for $250? The
> thought of buying one for parts crossed my mind, briefly.
>
> Tain't gonna happen, and Brother refuses to talk warranty.
>
That's sad. At least we have consumer protection laws in Europe. They
usually take care of such cases. Did you do some research before buying it?
I found out that it is hard to find out what works good in the past years. A
lot of new models changing frequently, so when you have reliable feedback
the device is no longer for sale. I feel overruled by the industry. It's
not only printers and a like - dishwasher, washing machines - crazy!
> I could gain some desk space with the all in one, if it would work.
Just spend some more time in researching before buying. It will pay off
later. I usually check prices against functionality and start googling
linux+vendor+model+problems or issues, compare with recommendations etc.
>
> This MFC claims it works with ubuntu 12.04, so I am tempted to load up
> xsane on my elderly lappy and take it to Staples to see if they have one
> on display, and can the xfce install on it see the scanner. The printer
> claims to handle all the common protocols including pdf-1.7 so I don't
> think it will be a huge config problem.
>
http://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/19/SLN284830/en
Don't know if it will work in debian without adjustments as they provide
only rpms. One would need at least do alien upon it.
The printing won't be an issue I guess, but if you want to use it via USB or
so might be. The scanner would work also, because you could mail or
whatever the scanned files to. It seems to have this modern whatever
technology called to print from the phone to it, so ... looks like all is
supported there. It seems to be a good piece of hardware. I like Dell - the
notebooks. For the printers my preference is with HP - though I don't have
any idea if quality in this segment is still the same as it used to be
before.
I googled fast on this Dell printer but could not find anything related to
Linux.
>> It states however that it can be used by sane as well.
>>
>> This might be of interest (I think it depends on what model you buy)
>
> If I buy an epson, which is not likely unless I could still buy a C82. I
> used it to print a couple weddings I shot, selling the color prints,
> they were that good. But that was then, this is now.
Times are changing and the industry also. We can only follow. The worse
thing is that it is not about quality anymore, but the margin. And here
it's hard to follow, because we provide that margin and get crap.
I've been looking recently into the newer HP devices. They also have multi
function once at reasonable price.
I don't know - it looks like you won't get reply here by someone using this
device. I would buy one that more than 2 reported to be working without
issue for at least 1y.
regards
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