[ale] Epson ET-4550 Printer Drivers on Linux?

[Neal Rhodes]

Thanks.  Well, my situation - officially my wife and I have retired from
our consulting business.   Practically we will continue to handle
dribbles of client issues for several years and do a few hours of work.
And we have to do taxes. 

We now have a collection of 6 printers in the house, including 1
all-in-one, NONE of which work at present.  (all have mysterious
hardware issues.)  To replace the color toner cartridges in the Dell
3100-cn and the drum which it just decided needed replacing is about
$380.  And then it might, or might not, actually print.    

We figure on needing to print perhaps 300-500 pages a year for the next
5 years.   Thus a single all-in-one which does good color printing seems
to make the most sense.   With the new larger ink capacity in the below
units they both seem like they would provide 5-10 years of ink.   The
Brother is half the cost of the Epson and provides 1/4 of the ink.    We
don't much care about speed. 

Buying another laser seems like an unnecessary expense at this point. 

On Wed, 2017-01-25 at 01:11 -0500, Solomon Peachy wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 09:20:33PM -0500, Neal Rhodes wrote:
> > We are looking at either an Epson ET-4550 eco-tank printer or a Brother
> > MFC-J5830DW . 
> > 
> > My recollection is that the Brother drivers installed in Centos 6
> > without drama.   It looks like the Epson has a generic driver for
> > linux.  
> 
> Brother lasers are drama-free.  They Just Work.  Epsons are a little 
> more complicated though.
> 
> I'd not consider an inkjet and a laser to be in the same class; what do 
> you intend to use this printer for?
> 
>  - Solomon


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