Printer advice

[gene heskett]

On 7/20/23 14:49, Robert Heller wrote:
> At Thu, 20 Jul 2023 18:56:43 +0100 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> Hi Jerry,
>>
>> On Thu, 20 Jul 2023 at 18:49, Gerhard Magnus <magnusg3000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>          The last HP printer I had "with free ink!" gave me so much grief
>>> and
>>> frustration I almost took a hammer to it before I took it to Free Geek
>>> for recycling. Then I googled "HP printers are crap" and found out I was
>>> far from alone.
>>>
>>   I don't know what their inkjet printers are like but my old HP LaserJet
>> M1132 MFP works fine.
> 
> Ink Jet printers are generally crap.  I don't know about the latest generation
> of "tank" type ink jet printers, but the ink-cart types are far more expensive
> to operate, due to the high (effective) cost of the ink-carts.  (And if you
> don't print often enough, the carts will dry up, making them even more costly
> for people who print infrequently ("dammed if you do, dammed if you don't").
> 
> HP *used* to make quite decent *Laser* printers.  Maybe they still do, but
> their inkjet printers are generally cheap junk.
> 
> *Laser* printers have always been cheaper to operate -- the cost per page for
> the toner is orders of magnitude cheaper than for Ink Jets. I will never buy a
> Ink Jet printer every again, they are too much hassle to deal with and costly
> to operate. I bought a Brother B&W Laser printer in 2010 and it is *still*
> working, although I am thinking of "retiring it" (selling it) and getting a
> color laser printer. I paid about $240 (at Amazon) for it in 2010 and I am
> eying a Lexmark color laser printer available from Amazon for $226. Since
> laser printers are typically Postscript, they work out-of-the-box under Linux.
> Inkjets can be a bitch to get working under Linux (even/esp HP).
> 
Lexmark is personna non grata here. My last contact with lexmark was a 
flat denial of any warranty if it had ever been connected to a linux 
box. Anybody that addicted to the windoze koolaid is used for target 
pratice on my ppty.
>>
>> But I don't print a lot of stuff these days.
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>>
>> Ian
>>
>>
> 

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