[GRLUG] want to buy a B&W printer

[Bob Kline]

As I mentioned, Canon has mostly
not been a team player with Linux.
And of course Lexmark went to court
to keep people from reloading cartridges.
The case was tossed out, but I won't
touch their stuff.

Kodak has made some overtures
toward cheaper cartridges, but so far
the industry battle lines have held pretty
well, and people continue to get gouged
pretty deeply by the cost.  Get a big office
machine and the ink containers hold a
pint of ink.  In a home printers it's a tiny
thimble full.

  -- Bob


On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Ben Rousch <brousch at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm kind of surprised by all of the Brother(ly) love on here. About 8
> years ago we had a Brother laser printer at work. It was such an
> incredible POS that I swore never to buy another one. It's been all HP
> and Canon and happiness since then.
>
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Josh Yavor <josh at ya4.us> wrote:
> > I tend to use Brother laser printers because they have great Linux
> support
> > with new drivers rolling out frequently. I've had great luck with the
> > HL-2040 and HL-2170W models.
> >
> > http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/index.html
> >
> > Josh
> >
> >
> >
> > On 08/09/2011 10:11 AM, Bob Kline wrote:
> >
> > Way too tired of the color inkjet printers
> > with the all too expensive cartridges.
> > I'd like to get a unit that only does B&W.
> > Now I know that manufacturers mostly
> > build the printers to sell the cartridges, so
> > I don't necessarily expect them to make
> > it easy for me.
> > Anyone know of such a unit?  One preferably
> > with a large ink tank or cartridge?
> > This is a home unit, so cost is an object.
> >    -- Bob
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