Hi, Update on the 1430: It's older than I thought - I bought it in '03 so it's probably not going to be much use to anyone.
On that note - check Staples. They have the ML-2510 for $49.xx until Tuesday. I had to drive to Okotoks to get one (for the wife & kids) but that's not really that far from my place. It's basically the 2009 model of the 1430 - and it's hard to beat that price. My replacement printer is a Brother HL-4040CDN. It's a big bast*rd - close to 70lbs and takes up a fair chunk of that table. I'll need to find a new place for my scanner. Being network enabled (Cat-5) it brings me closer to decommissioning one of my older computers. I think I just need to move the scanner, media server and DHCP/DNS server over and I should be close to done. The consumables for the Brother cost more than the Kyocera. There was close to a $500 difference between the cost of the two printers - that's enough to buy two sets of high-yield cartridges for the Brother off the internet. I think by then it's at the end of it's usable life (to me anyways) so I should come out even hopefully. According to this: http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Brother-HL-4040CDN it works perfectly. I haven't had time to check it with Linux yet (Windows works fine). I should have time to play with it tonight. Cheers, J.J. On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 18:07 -0700, Graham Monk wrote: > Hi John, > > Did you replace it with the Kyocera you previously discussed? > If so, how are you finding it? > > Graham > > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 1:15 PM, John Jardine > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've just purchased a new printer to replace my B&W Samsung ML-1430. If > > you know anyone that can put this to use please contact me off-list. > > I'll be happy to bring it to the CLUG meeting on the 4th. > > > > The printer is Linux compatible - I've been using it for a few years and > > only had to copy the PPD file to each computer. > > > > Don't know if this matters to anyone but: > > Ram: 8MB > > Page Count: 11,649 pages > > OS Version: 1.01 05-28-2002 > > Engine Version: 4.2.5 > > SPL Version: 1.13 04-01-2002 > > > > I honestly don't know how much toner remains in the cartridge - but it's > > non-zero because I just printed a test page to get the above info. > > > > Cheers, > > J.J. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
