What laser printers do you like?

kentborg at borg.org kentborg at borg.org
Wed Jul 12 12:30:30 EDT 2006


I recently bought an HP all-in-one thingie from newegg.com.  It cost
more than you want to spend but it is a B&W laser printer with
supposedly affordable cartridges (I haven't bought one yet), ethernet
and postscript, but no duplexer.  Because it is postscript and
ethernet Linux just plain *works*, no driver guff of any sort.  (I
told Ubuntu the approximate model, but I suspect that didn't matter
much.)

Also, in the same desk space, it is a copier and fax machine (flatbed
and sheetfeeder).  The fax machine does not come with a voice handset.
Maybe someday Linux will recognize it as a scanner.

I keep it off most of the time, the warm up time is not bad.  Maybe
15-seconds waiting for the scanner fluorescent bulb to get to full
brightness.  I turn it off when I am done, I don't know if it times
out the bulb.

-kb




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