[gentoo-user] Re: new printer : any thoughts ?

2013-12-11 Thread eroen
On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 21:01:29 -0500 Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: My ancient printer's ink cartridge has finally dried up the mobo in my regular computer accepts only USB. I don't do much printing, but occasionally need a few pages. The local store has an HP Deskjet 2510 on sale

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new printer : any thoughts ?

2013-12-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 11:38:15 +0100, eroen wrote: I got a cheap (bw) HP LaserJet p1005 half a decade ago. It works well with the drivers from http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/ , which lets me avoid using the bloated hplip mess (I tried that when I got the printer, it didn't work with network printing

[gentoo-user] Re: new printer : any thoughts ?

2013-12-11 Thread James
Daniel Pielmeier billie at gentoo.org writes: Does anyone have thoughts or suggestions ? This thread has identified the software (driver) issues for you. Imho, all HP's work one way or another. Laser* is far superior to ink* desk*. Brother printers, are a project to get working under

[gentoo-user] Re: new printer : any thoughts ?

2013-12-11 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-12-11, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: My ancient printer's ink cartridge has finally dried up the mobo in my regular computer accepts only USB. I don't do much printing, but occasionally need a few pages. The local store has an HP Deskjet 2510 on sale this week. Does

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new printer : any thoughts ?

2013-12-11 Thread Philip Webb
131211 Grant Edwards wrote: On 2013-12-11, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: My ancient printer's ink cartridge has finally dried up the mobo in my regular computer accepts only USB. I don't do much printing, but occasionally need a few pages. Unless you want to print little other than

[gentoo-user] Re: new printer : any thoughts ?

2013-12-11 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-12-11, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: Thanks for this the other replies. The local store has on sale a Brother HL-2240D Monochrome Laser Printer, 24 PPM Mono, 2400 x 600 DPI, Duplex Printing, USB Connectivity. Any further comments from anyone?