[ale] looking for a reasonably priced color laser printer

Greg Clifton gccfof5 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 18 12:23:12 EST 2011


I have a Samsung CLP-315, it is a pretty low cost device w/o duplex feature
but it handles Windows XP, Vista, 7, Ubuntu 10.10, and OSX 10 (Tiger,
Leopard & Snow Leopard) without difficulty. Bought it just over a year ago
at OD during after Thanksgiving sale for ~ $85 if memory serves. Recently
bought a new black toner cartridge on NewEgg for ~ $45 delivered, I think.

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> They have a few clunkers. If it's on the brother linux page, it works great
> or at least well enough for daily use. I got a cheap multi-function brother
> system for my daughter and with a few driver installs from that site she had
> a working multi-page sheet-feed scanner into XSane for convert into PDF or
> jpg, tiff, png. OpenOffice can do a scan into easily. The only thing it
> didn't do that we wanted was determine page count on the fly. Apparently the
> process make a multi-page pdf in one operation instead of multiple images,
> count, then make pdf.
>
> The printing looks great. It's a cheap inkjet but they have individual
> tanks for about $12/color ($18 for black - much larger).
>
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Michael Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
>
>> Maybe they've changed. Last I has any experience with them it was
>> difficult as hell to get one to work right on i386, and not possible at all
>> for PowerPC.
>>
>> --
>> Sent from my HTC Vision (G2), running Gingerbread.
>> That is, a phone-like mobile device. :)
>> On Jan 18, 2011 9:57 AM, "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Michael Trausch <mike at trausch.us>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> The only thing I have against Brother devices is they they rarely use a
>> >> standard PDL and thus only have drivers for the architectures Brother
>> >> supports.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Yeah but they use "BRScript" which is a rename postscript. They got
>> tired of
>> > having to pay a license fee for an open technology that's 30+ years old
>> just
>> > to use the name "postscript".
>> >
>> >> --
>> >> Sent from my HTC Vision (G2), running Gingerbread.
>> >> That is, a phone-like mobile device. :)
>> >> On Jan 18, 2011 9:39 AM, "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > Brother makes a nice color laser that is very linux friendly. I have
>> a
>> >> > HL-4070CDW model. It's in cups _and_ Brother has an extensive Linux
>> >> drivers
>> >> > page here:
>> >> >
>> http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/index.html
>> >> >
>> >> > Toners are reasonably priced and drums are replaced separately.
>> C=color,
>> >> > D=duplex, W=wireless (I only use the wired network connection). It's
>> been
>> >> > very reliable.
>> >> >
>> >> > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 7:15 AM, Geoffrey Myers <
>> >> lists at serioustechnology.com
>> >> >> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> I have a minolta color laser that has just bitten the dust. I'd like
>> to
>> >> >> replace it with another color laser that is linux friendly.
>> Suggestions
>> >> >> would be appreciated.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> --
>> >> >> Until later, Geoffrey
>> >> >>
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>> >> >> the pretense of taking care of them."
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>> >> > James P. Kinney III
>> >> > I would rather stumble along in freedom than walk effortlessly in
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