[ale] looking for a reasonably priced color laser printer

[Greg Clifton]

HP's great ,but probably depends on the mileage. If these printers are not
refurbished, they will likely need feed rollers and perhaps a fuser soon,
and that gets expensive.

BTW, Gotapex.com had a link to Tigerdirect for the Samsun CLP-315W
(wireless) for $139.99 + shipping this morning.

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Michael Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:

> Would there be some reason HP brands wouldn't be? Cost is typically the
> only reason I shy away from their laser printers.
>
> --
> Sent from my HTC Vision (G2), running Gingerbread.
> 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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