[TriLUG] printer suggestion?

[Roy Vestal]

Welp, I'll put in my plug for old hardware. I grabbed an old HP LJ III (1991 mfg date) from the trashcan at work. It needed a set of pickup rollers, $50.00. Next, I was able to purchase a HP JetDirect from Jason T. at a HamFest <shameless plug> at a great price </shameless plug> and for the price of a new deskjet, or the price of my dads ink cartridges (all-in-one), I have a laser printer that is shared acrossed my network for ANY OS.

If you only need B/W, then you may want to look at this instead of a deskjet. I've found that for my printing needs, ink cartridges dry up before I use them up. Toner for a laser is just shaved black plastic (0.07 microns, smaller than a cigarette smoke particle, 0.20 microns) lasts longer. Even now, you can get DSL/Cable modem routers with a print server as a part of the router.

Granted at my job, I have to look at the TCO, total cost of ownership.

The nice thing about CUPS and LPR, I can get both to print to a jetdirect. If you choose networking the printer as a standalone, please stick with the HP JetDirect products. Much easier setup.

Just MHO,

Roy V.

On Fri, 23 May 2003 09:51:25 -0400
Maria Winslow <maria.winslow at windows-linux.com> wrote:

> The color printers sometimes don't do as good a job with black and grayscale - 
> how about this one? And it's nice if you can do without a print server box.
> 
> Maria
> 
> On Friday 23 May 2003 09:26 am, Tarus Balog wrote:
> > Maria Winslow said:
> > > Thanks a lot - this is the information I needed. I agree that HP
> > > printers are  best, but the model I had isn't made anymore.
> >
> > I faced the same problem a few weeks ago, and decided on an HP Deskjet
> > 6127. For about $225 you get a color Inkjet printer with built-in Ethernet
> > that is pretty fast to boot. Since I run Linux, OSX, Windows and Solaris
> > in the office, I wanted a printer that would be easy to use with all of
> > them. So far I haven't been disappointed.
> >
> > -T
> 
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The box said "Install Windows 2000 or better", so I installed LINUX!
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