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Re: Your Thoughts on Printer Replacement




On 18/09/2021 7:05 am, Dan Ritter wrote:
Charles Curley wrote:
Requirements:

* I print rarely, and I do use color. The carts on the L7700 tend to
   go bad before they empty, Inkjet or laser? Or other?

* Buster and Bullseye should both support any recommendations. I don't
   use Windows.

I've had good results with HP over the years, and they support Linux
well.

Reccomendations?
I have standard recommendations. In your case, I would ask: do
you need a printer?

If it's convenient for you to go to a local print shop, it will
be cheaper to use their high quality printers. It looks like
there are five places like that in town. (I looked at your web
page.)

If you print in black/white more often than you need color, you could
still use a local print shop or get things mailed to you for those
occasions - photos and posters, especially, but basically any document.

In that case, get a monochrome laser printer. I recommend a
Brother with all of the following features:

- BRScript/3 (their PostScript emulator)
- ethernet jack
- duplex

Prices start at about $100.

Other people can direct you to reliable color laser printers.

-dsr-

I agree totally on using laser over inkjet. The cost per page and print speed are far superior for laser.

Worse is inkjet life. They inevitably clog or jam after only a few hundred pages.

I do find that labels and envelopes usually don't fare well in cheap lasers. That is the advantage inkjets have. I worked around this by buying a cheap thermal label printer on aliexpress and wrote a linux driver for it. My cost per small label is 0.5c and large 2c. My toner cost per laser page is around 0.5c so maybe 1c per page for life of printer (fuji-xerox)


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