[GRLUG] Printers

[Joe Vanderstelt]

I know it's Inkjet but I picked up a Brother MFC-440CN for $70 at
staples. It's network ready which solved my printer from windows
problem,  over the network Scanner, and Fax. All-in-All a nice home
printer. I use it for small printing jobs and take my photos to
meijer's.

I'm really starting to like brother.

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Tim Schmidt <timschmidt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Jordan Hudson <jodanlime at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > 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.
>
>  I think this is the second time I have to heartily disagree with
>  Jordan on Brother laser printers (if it wasn't you last time, I
>  apologize).  I own one, and we have 4 here at Middleville Tool & Die.
>  I own an HL2070N and all 4 here are 5250DNs.  All great printers.  The
>  2070N has more paper curl than I care for, but you can't get a cheaper
>  cost per page anywhere.  Period.  And no other printer at it's price
>  point has equivalent features.  Ditto for the 5250DN's features.
>  Reliability simply hasn't been an issue - after more than a year of
>  printing near the duty cycle.
>
>  There are faster printers, there are more featurefull ones, but if you
>  want a good linux-compatible printer, cheap, you won't do wrong with a
>  brother.
>
>  The same cannot be said of many recent lasers from HP, Samsung (at least).
>
>  --tim
>
>
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