[ale] looking for a reasonably priced color laser printer

[Geoffrey Myers]

arxaaron 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.

Looking to purchase not lease.  Is that a monthly lease?  Too much for 
my budget.

> 
> 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 
>> <mailto: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
>>     <mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>     > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Michael Trausch
>>     <mike at trausch.us <mailto: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
>>     <mailto: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 <mailto: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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Until later, Geoffrey

"I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent
the government from wasting the labors of the people under
the pretense of taking care of them."
- Thomas Jefferson