[GRLUG] Printers

[Jordan Hudson]

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 :)

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Tim Schmidt <timschmidt at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Jordan Hudson <jodanlime at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I have never personally owned a brother, but I am not a fan of 2 part
> > cartridge systems generally, and the drums are a little costly, you
> should
> > factor that into the cost per page. Also, I was merely speaking from the
> > return amount we get, its usually more on brother machines. That being
> said,
> > the 5250 printers have had less returns than all other brother printers
> we
> > have stocked in the last 2 years. I own a samsung ML2010 and have not
> had a
> > problem, works with any OS and cost per page is 2.5 cents, with the
> samsung
> > or less with a generic cartridge.
>
> I was worried about the two cartridges at first.  In practice, it
> means refilling the toner cartridge amounts to cutting a sticker and
> pulling a cap out of a dumb piece of plastic with no moving parts, and
> the drum has lasted far longer than Brother recommends they be used
> for (resetting the page count on the drum is a simple button-press on
> the printer).  I've done the math, and I'm getting MUCH cheaper pages
> than even generic refilled cartridges.
>
> As far as the Samsungs go, I've got a family member with a Samsung
> SCX-4100 and it's a nightmare under Linux - despite the cute penguin
> on the box.  Binary drivers that replace system binaries with SUID
> deity-knows-what and barely work on anything newer than Debian 2.2 or
> RH 5.2.  Horrendous.
>
> HP has some low-cost lasers that require computer-side magic to upload
> firmware blobs to the printer to get them to function.  Not sure how
> automatic that is these days, but when I had to set up a Laserjet
> 1012(?) it was pretty nasty.
>
> --tim
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