[NBLUG/talk] Printers

[Robert Hayes]

PLEASE encourage your Mother to throw it out the window. It feels SO
GOOD. Profanity, if she's so inclined, acts as a cathartic too.
Those people at HP should be brought up on charges for crimes against
the environment for all the printers they've sent to landfills. And
thrift stores.

That having been said I have been delighted with my Brother DCP-7065
DCN. It is a laser printer and scanner, works flawlessly on linux when
plugged in. It can also be hooked up via ethernet to a wireless router
and act as a network printer, although to my experience it will not scan
in this configuration. I have it hooked up both ways simultaneously.

This model does not include fax capabilities. The next model up has fax
available for an additional $100 or so.

Here's the kicker: Watch the prices on Amazon. Use camelcamelcamel. I
purchased mine for either $70 or $99 I don't recall.

Oh- and the toner cartridges are available third party at ~$20 and print
up to 2500 sheets. Niiice.

Good luck. Tell Mom to look below before she throws. Wouldn't want to
hit the car. Or the cat. Or the UPS man.




On Wed, 2015-03-04 at 19:29 +0000, cecrops at sandwich.net wrote: 
> My mother's printer must be one of those HP models with the circuitry rigged to
> refuse to print anything after a time period and claim she is out of ink even
> though she does not use it that often, and it says the replacement cartidges she
> got in a 4-pack of replacement cartidges are all out of ink, and she's about ready
> to throw it out a window. So being the techie in the family, I'll be recommending
> and probably buying a new printer. 
> 
> Looking into printers is a good opportunity to get up to date on the status of
> printing protocols and Linux compatibility where I don't know anything about the
> subject other than the fact that cups replaced lpr a while ago, and zeroconf looked
> like the new network discovery standard ten years ago but everyone stopped talking
> about it.
> 
> This looks like the protocols information that I was looking for. 
> http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-2.0/network.html
> 
> 
> Questions:
> 
> 1. Can someone recommend a good and affordable general-purpose printer/scanner combo
> that doesn't chip the cartidges and rip you off? 
> 
> 2. Are there any printer vendors that are known to NOT be Linux compatibile and
> should be avoided if Linux compatibility is an issue?
> 
> 
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