I work at staples in Muskegon, we sell a lot of printers. The best bang for you buck when we are talking about ink prices is either soemething (k5400 or L7000 series) that takes HP's slightly new 88 series cartridges, the XL variety gets you 2500 pages at 5% yield on the black cartridge for $36. It is also very fast, and the machines usually cost less than a laser. If you want nice pictures go with epson, I use them for everything picture. I would stay away from most brother machines. The new kodak printers are a nightmare when it comes to picture quality. Canon printers are actually quite good, most people remember the 90s when they were crap. <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Michael Mol <<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@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 Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 8:46 PM, Greg Folkert <<a href="mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net">greg@gregfolkert.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 14:36 -0400, john-thomas richards wrote:<br>
</div><div class="Ih2E3d">> > Some of us did not know that OSX uses CUPS (having no interest in OSX<br>
> > whatsoever...). The Kodak 5100 AllInOne works with OSX 10.4 or<br>
> > later... The color ink cartridge is only $14.00 and the black<br>
> > cartridge is only $9.99. My wife uses one with her new Vista laptop.<br>
> > It has amazing quality and the ink! It is sooo *inexpensive*! Perhaps<br>
> > I can use it with Linux, after all. (I do not need the scanner part<br>
> > and one does not need a PC to make copies with it.) I bought it new<br>
> > from w00t for $50. In the stores one can get it for $100.<br>
><br>
> Right from the index page: <a href="http://www.cups.org/" target="_blank">http://www.cups.org/</a><br>
><br>
</div>> CUPS provides a portable printing layer for UNIX(R)-based operating<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">> systems. It was developed by Easy Software Products and is now owned and<br>
> maintained by Apple Inc. to promote a standard printing solution. It is<br>
</div>> the standard printing system in Mac OS(R) X and most Linux(R) distributions.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">><br>
><br>
> And Windows even sorta supports it nativily... sorta.<br>
<br>
</div>Cups (and Windows') support for IPP* is awesome. Between it, VNC and<br>
OpenVPN, I was able to debug printing code while I was stuck working<br>
from home with the flu. I even found and removed a couple stale print<br>
jobs on my home computer that I'd forgotten about, using the Windows<br>
spool manager.<br>
<br>
And it's a *lot* easier to set up Windows to use a Linux printer with<br>
CUPS and IPP than it is to do so with Samba.<br>
<br>
* <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Printing_Protocol" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Printing_Protocol</a><br>
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