[GRLUG] Need to buy printer

[Matthew Lechleider]

That was the best advise you will receive.

Make sure you find a printer with cartridges that are cheap and widely 
available.

The HP cartridges are available everywhere...Target, CVS, Walgreens, 
K-Mart, Best Buy, etc..


Bob Kline wrote:
> I have an HP unit - printer, scanner -
> which I got free with my last HP PC
> system.  Watch the Office Max or
> Office Depot ads for cheap printers.
> $50 or so.
>
> But the first round of new cartridges
> could well eat up a big piece of $100.
> IMHO home printers are a racket, and
> are clearly intended to get one hooked
> on cartridges, and are subsidized
> accordingly.
>
> Cartridge World,  1717 28th Street SW,
> refills some cartridges, for 1/2 the new
> price.  So does Walgreen.  Might make
> sense to see which ones they fill before
> buying anything - that's where the real
> savings could be.
>
>    -- Bob
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:52 PM, <topher at wcsg.org 
> <mailto:topher at wcsg.org>> wrote:
>
>     My turn to ask.  :)  I haven't owned a printer for years, and
>     never felt
>     the lack.  Apparently my wife needs one now though.  It'll be
>     plugged into
>     my kids windows desktop, but I want to be able to print to it from my
>     Linux laptop.  I'm assuming I can share it out in wnidows and mount it
>     with CUPS or something.  I also want some for <$100.
>
>     Anyone have a favorite printer that fits that?
>
>     Topher
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