ubuntu-ca Digest, colour printers

[Gordon Dey]

I really liked my Lexmark c520 (staples.ca: c522). It plugged into the network, 
spoke ipp therefore cups, out of the box). It had a web interface, snmp, apple 
talk (untested), understood NTP, DNS, and could send email you if it had 
trouble. You name it. Price was good, $350 cdn. The colour prints (CMYK) were 
great--overall, a great colour printer for linux. Worked like a dream.

Why past-tense then?

First of all, the printer seems *really* sensitive. The NIC on the first one 
died 3 days after installation.  Then 9 months later, second one hung on 
power-up. Email to support folks lead to the magic 3-fingered salute, and that 
lead to a understanding something internal to the printer mechanism died--I 
have to ship it to lexmark on my dime. Embedded computer still works fine :(

Secondly, the replacement cartridges (of which I wound up having bought a set), 
lasted less than the originals (200 vs 800 pages) yet, cost more than the price 
of the whole doggone printer new (about $480 for CMYK set!)

So, for less then the cost of one cartridge, I bought a whole new (with 
cartridge) samsung ml2xxx printer and it's been working since. Not colour, but 
cost effective.

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> Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 04:11:55 -0800
> From: J&L <j_lp at shaw.ca>
> Subject: buying a new printer for color printer for Ubuntu 7.04 and
> 	7.10
> 
> Hi My name is John Papineau and I support and promote Ubuntu in Canada 
> in the B.C area in the Town of Nelson  and surrounding area. I would 
> like to Know if anyone know were I can buy new printer that will work 
> with Ubuntu 7.04 and 7.10 . I have been setting up individual with