Of the color printers I've used at various jobs, my favorite in terms of print quality and ease of maintenance was a Xerox Phaser. I don't recall the specific model number.
Its most memorable attribute is that it didn't use toner cartridges; instead, it used solid blocks of ink. Essentially, they were oddly shaped crayons. Each color had a distinct shape to ensure that you couldn't fit the wrong color in a given slot. The thing ran like a champ, and it never suffered the kinds of problems that seem endemic on more traditional color laser printers. On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 7:19 PM, Rich Braun <[email protected]> wrote: > I swear by my Ricoh Aficio SP C410DN. Drivers for Linux/Windows/Mac work > easily, the thing is built like a tank, and each toner color has two > separate > elements: one is a bottle of powder rated for 15,000 pages, and the other > is > the roller mechanism rated for at least 3x as long. I get hardcopy for > less > than a nickel a page; haven't had to buy many supplies in the 6 or 7 years > of > ownership. > > Ricoh probably has improved its products in that timeframe, I haven't > followed > them because I haven't needed to. Just Plain Works. Tip: monitor your > supplies (with Nagios or whatever your favorite monitoring daemon is) and > order new ones before need. This printer's Ethernet support for monitoring > makes it easy, along with plugins > (http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Search/1/printer#/). > > -rich > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix Email [email protected] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / 2013 PGP-Key-ID 0x920063C6 2013 / ID 0x920063C6 / FP A5AD 6BE1 FEFE 8E4F 5C23 C2D0 E885 E17C 9200 63C6 2011 / ID 0x32A492D8 / FP 7834 AEC2 EFA3 565C A4B6 9BA4 0ACB AD85 32A4 92D8 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
