I do agree with you that samsung SCX4100 (and all samsung AIO) are nightmares for anything under windows. Mine is a plane jane printer and I have to do nothing, Ubuntu and fedora both find it automagically. I didn't know you could reset the drum on a brother....you may have changed my mind on 2 part systems :)<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Tim Schmidt <<a href="mailto:timschmidt@gmail.com">timschmidt@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Jordan Hudson <<a href="mailto:jodanlime@gmail.com">jodanlime@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I have never personally owned a brother, but I am not a fan of 2 part<br>
> cartridge systems generally, and the drums are a little costly, you should<br>
> factor that into the cost per page. Also, I was merely speaking from the<br>
> return amount we get, its usually more on brother machines. That being said,<br>
> the 5250 printers have had less returns than all other brother printers we<br>
> have stocked in the last 2 years. I own a samsung ML2010 and have not had a<br>
> problem, works with any OS and cost per page is 2.5 cents, with the samsung<br>
> or less with a generic cartridge.<br>
<br>
</div>I was worried about the two cartridges at first. In practice, it<br>
means refilling the toner cartridge amounts to cutting a sticker and<br>
pulling a cap out of a dumb piece of plastic with no moving parts, and<br>
the drum has lasted far longer than Brother recommends they be used<br>
for (resetting the page count on the drum is a simple button-press on<br>
the printer). I've done the math, and I'm getting MUCH cheaper pages<br>
than even generic refilled cartridges.<br>
<br>
As far as the Samsungs go, I've got a family member with a Samsung<br>
SCX-4100 and it's a nightmare under Linux - despite the cute penguin<br>
on the box. Binary drivers that replace system binaries with SUID<br>
deity-knows-what and barely work on anything newer than Debian 2.2 or<br>
RH 5.2. Horrendous.<br>
<br>
HP has some low-cost lasers that require computer-side magic to upload<br>
firmware blobs to the printer to get them to function. Not sure how<br>
automatic that is these days, but when I had to set up a Laserjet<br>
1012(?) it was pretty nasty.<br>
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