On Tue, March 20, 2007 8:50 am, Roger Searle wrote: > However the total cost of ownership will not be zero. Kyocera FS1900. > Usually prints with the grey smears indicative of the worn drum which > needs to be replaced, cost is around $600 +GST. Aside from that it > functions perfectly and been properly maintained. Has second paper > tray, duplex unit, USB/parallel/network connections, I have the > driver/utility disks - the manuals are hiding from me right now but are > somewhere. Originally cost us around $2,000 with all the extras, is no > low end printer. We got 75,000 pages out of it (then got a big > photocopier/printer/scanner/coffeemaker thing) so drum cost adds just > under a cent a sheet. > > Looks like this (imagine the extra paper tray and duplex unit which sit > underneath making it taller by about another 50%): > > http://www.amatteroffax.com/itempagey_INVID_706738_d_FS-1900.htm > > http://ca.kyoceramita.com/KMCAGlobalpub/jsp/Kyocera/products_printers_details.jsp?pid=5043 > > Will give it to a community group or under resourced organisation, if > you support one who may be interested please contact me off list with a > sentence or 2 about them. > > Sorry, I can tell you zero about linux compatability. > > Cheers, > Roger > >
www.linuxprinting.org has a pretty good database of what works and what doesn't. In this case: http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Kyocera-FS-1900 It does seem to work if it is a FS-1900. However one of the pages you pointed to is for an FS-19000 (note the extra 0). Also the linuxprinting page says " Very low per-page expenses due to the permanent photo-conductor drum. Only consumables are toner and paper. " Whereas you say it needs a drum. Nick the confused, but who has too many printers himself! -- Nick Rout
