Hi! I would like to hear what printers go good w/our operating system.
While back, I should have checked w/y'all like I'm doing now but I just went ahead and bought a Konica-Minolta PagePro 1350W. Now that W at the end of 1350 is a huge word that means WINDOWS! grrrr! It's a great printer 21pgs/min etc but it doesn't like linux at all and their tech spt will tell you as much. I googled round while back...there is some stuff there w/it and windows but I have had no luck. I got it sold for what I pd. 150 bucks and now I want something good that we know works really well w/linux..
Whatcha all think?
thx
John Rose
rado wrote:
Hi! I would like to hear what printers go good w/our operating system.
While back, I should have checked w/y'all like I'm doing now but I just went ahead and bought a Konica-Minolta PagePro 1350W. Now that W at the end of 1350 is a huge word that means WINDOWS! grrrr! It's a great printer 21pgs/min etc but it doesn't like linux at all and their tech spt will tell you as much. I googled round while back...there is some stuff there w/it and windows but I have had no luck. I got it sold for what I pd. 150 bucks and now I want something good that we know works really well w/linux..
Whatcha all think?
Anything that supports postscript should be fine. Most HP printers are also fine, though some of the lower end new models are troublesome. I am using all of the following without incident:
HP LaserJet 4ML HP LaserJet 2100 HP Color LaserJet 2550 HP Color LaserJet 4500
There's a pretty good list of what works here:
http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi
Cheers,
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 17:04 -0400, Chris Mauritz wrote:
Anything that supports postscript should be fine.
AOL. For me, any half-decent printer should be able to interpret PostScript, it saves a lot of trouble.
For home use I needed a printer that can do a lot of good text printing at a low price, so I bought a second-hand HP Laserjet 5 for 50 Euro through EBay.
-- Daniel
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 17:04 -0400, Chris Mauritz wrote:
rado wrote:
Hi! I would like to hear what printers go good w/our operating system.
While back, I should have checked w/y'all like I'm doing now but I just went ahead and bought a Konica-Minolta PagePro 1350W. Now that W at the end of 1350 is a huge word that means WINDOWS! grrrr! It's a great printer 21pgs/min etc but it doesn't like linux at all and their tech spt will tell you as much. I googled round while back...there is some stuff there w/it and windows but I have had no luck. I got it sold for what I pd. 150 bucks and now I want something good that we know works really well w/linux..
Whatcha all think?
Anything that supports postscript should be fine. Most HP printers are also fine, though some of the lower end new models are troublesome. I am using all of the following without incident:
HP LaserJet 4ML HP LaserJet 2100 HP Color LaserJet 2550 HP Color LaserJet 4500
There's a pretty good list of what works here:
Thx all that replied to this...I finally got a Brother HL2040 refurbished and took extended warranty for 115 shipped
Brother, in their spec sheet says it's good to go w/linux so we shall see!
thx
John Rose
--- rado rado@rivers-bend.com wrote:
Hi! I would like to hear what printers go good w/our operating system.
While back, I should have checked w/y'all like I'm doing now but I just went ahead and bought a Konica-Minolta PagePro 1350W. Now that W at the end of 1350 is a huge word that means WINDOWS! grrrr! It's a great printer 21pgs/min etc but it doesn't like linux at all and their tech spt will tell you as much. I googled round while back...there is some stuff there w/it and windows but I have had no luck. I got it sold for what I pd. 150 bucks and now I want something good that we know works really well w/linux..
Whatcha all think?
thx
John Rose
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If you have to pay for the toner out of your own wallet I'd go with Brother. Can't beat $70 to print 6700 pages. Just make sure a high yield toner is available for the model. (The difference between low and high yield toner is usually $10, but almost twice the output on hy)
Brother HL5140 + 3 hy toner catridges = ($450 + $paper)/20,000 sheets (lifetime of drum) => price per sheet, plus $electricity of course.
HL5140 emulates PCL6.
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