[CentOS] getting rid of hp c3180

Tue Jul 11 19:47:47 UTC 2017
Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu>

On Tue, July 11, 2017 2:20 pm, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> I have a hp photosmart C3180 all-in-one and am well and truly sick of it.
> It seems like every time I go on another printing binge,
> I need yet another print cartridge.
> hp-clean doesn't help.
> IIRC this use it or lose it "feature" is common to inkjets.
>
> What should I replace it with?
> If I want a non-cloggging printer,
> is laser jet the way I need to go?
> I'd like to do color occasionally,
> but might not want to pay the price for a color laser.

I would go with inexpensive HP color laser printer. Laser printers can sit
for long time without use, without degrading, once you need it, it will
work. HP is the ones I would recommend - so far I didn't see HP printers
broken, or out of supplies which are not manufactured anymore (stay away
from Xerox in any event: I had to throw away several color laser Xerox
printers because Xerox stopped making toners for them, and Xerox did all
to thwart "aftermarket" compatible supplies).

The only disadvantage of laser printer compared to ink is if you need to
print high quality photographs: ink of different colors blends, whereas
powder in laser printer doesn't. But all on all if you are not picky,
photographs printed on laser printers look great too. Only people with
special needs will be unhappy with laser and will go with ink for
photographs.

I hope, this helps.

Valeri

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Valeri Galtsev
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