[ale] looking for a reasonably priced color laser printer

[Michael Trausch]

Would there be some reason HP brands wouldn't be? Cost is typically the only
reason I shy away from their laser printers.

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That is, a phone-like mobile device. :)
On Jan 19, 2011 9:40 AM, "arxaaron" <arxaaron at gmail.com> wrote:
> If HP brands would be under consideration, I just got an ad
> email from Delta Computers with a page of (mostly) HP printers
> on OFF LEASE, many of them color, in the $100 to $200 price
> range.
>
> Their email is all jpegs or I would have just forwarded it.
> email me private [subject Delta Printers] if you want me to
> foward you a copy of the advert.
>
> peace
> aaron
>
>
> On 2011/01/18, at 10:40 , Jim Kinney 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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