On Wednesday 20 May 2009 01:56 pm, Chris Thomas wrote: > I've had inkjet printers from HP, Epson, Cannon and others. I have > tried 3rd party ink supplies in each one and have had one or both of > these problems: 1) low yield per cartridge 2) blacks are not dark > enough. So I started to not get the 3rd party ink and only go with > the printer manufacturer's ink.
That's what I do, but read on... > A few years ago, I went with a color > laser printer. Now I don't have to worry about ink and the toner > seems to last forever. I can print 1000s of pages with one toner > cartridge instead of 100s with an ink cartridge. A few years I wanted to buy an all-in-one; I'd just moved back from an office to my home, and needed to conserve space. Prior to that I'd had all separate units: color inkjet, monochrome laser, inkjet fax, color scanner. When I started looking I couldn't find a reasonably priced all-in-one with good specs that ran with Linux. I ended up buying the HP Officejet Pro L7680 All-in-One. It's an inkjet printer using the new HP88xl cartridges (four cartridges, one for each primary color, one for black) that's supposed to be less expensive to use than laser. It was about $500 then; now it's end-of-life and the replacement model is under $400. Ink is, in my experience, very inexpensive and lasts a long time. And even with 20-lb cheap paper, with reasonable color coverage, there's no bleed-through. I'm happy. I buy the cartridges at either Costco or Sams, and I turn in the empty cartridges for $3 each credit at Staples or OfficeMax; and use the credit to buy paper when it's on sale. Works for me <smile>. But I'll ask anyway: Is there a good color laser printer to do what I do with the printer I've got now (see above for what it replaced), to fit on my 6-foot table, and to not use so much electricity that it dims the house-lights when it starts printing? Jeff -- Jeff Lasman, Nobaloney Internet Services P.O. Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only voice: +1 951 643-5345, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html";
