On Thursday 18 September 2003 06:29 am, John Richard Smith wrote:I have had two HP printers, one called appolo1200, which was terrible to set up and configure, and a Deskjet 670C which worked, but not well. These two printers are noisy,and jam the paper regularly, long since disposed of them.
Lee Wiggers wrote:I used a HP deskjet 812C in ML easy to install and good reliable printing I then switched to a Epson C80 and latter added a Epsom C82 printer and Epson 1200U scanner Installation on all 3 was a no brainier and print quality and speed has been outstanding for the price. I did find out that it is best not to use cheep Chinese ink cartridges. What a mess !!!! The Epson ink cartridges are not bad priced if you get them on sale and we all know the real cost of a printer over the long haul is the ink, But thats a whole other topic.
Funny,On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 19:10:08 -0700 Aron Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 20:06, Lee Wiggers wrote:
Hi all
Need recommendations for a cheap inkjet that is:
9.1 friendly
refillable
Any thoughts?
Lee
I know if I wait long enough, you all start to agree with me, HP printers are not well supported in linux and do not work that well, as compared to epson and lexmark all of which I have have had one or more experience with one way or another.
John
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I have specifically bought for it's linux capability a Lexmark Z52, Z53, which both works well , has a choice of 4 drivers in ghostscript, is easy enough to set up, and what is more compared to the HP's are silent as a ghost , the paper never jams. Only drawback is cartridges are a tad expensive but last just a bit longer than the HP equivelent.
I have had only the one experience with an epson, with a friend who asked me to help her install a Madrake OS(M9.0?) cann't remember the model , but it was a dream to install and really impressed her with it's performance. The printer was quieter than any HP that I have ever used. It never jams, and Ink cartridges I believe are so so priced.
My Lexmark Z52 and Z53's are a bit slow by current day print speeds and I would not recommend them where that is an important factor, but for me I ain't that fussed, don't do vast amounts of printed matter if I can help it, heck that is what an electronic office is for.
Now that Mandrake has a good screen save programme like Ksnapshot I don't need to print off those website pages any more as a reference in case something goes wrong.
So it's just letters( a dying thing) and art work, and well I just stack the print jobs up and go away and leave them till I come back.
I'm sure you all are going to tell be that the newer HP's are better now, good, but quote them and lets see, because I'm not that impressed.
John
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