On Wednesday 12 Jan 2005 21:08, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: > On January 12, 2005 05:44, John Layt wrote: > ... > > > Short answer: HP or Epson, per your personal preference, as they have the > > best Linux support. Avoid Canon and Lexmark, as they have terrible > > support for Linux. > > ... > > Personally, I avoid Epson because of their business practices (not for > technical reasons). > > I had a great little laser printer from them years ago, an ActionLaser > 1500. Fast, reliable, good print quality, reasonably priced. But after they > had sold a ton of them, they started jacking the prices of the cartridges > way up. The last time I looked at buying a cartridge, the price was $250!!! > The cartridges couldn't be refilled either, without damaging the printer, > because they had put some of the parts that are normally separately > servicable into the cartridge itself. At that point it was cheaper to buy > an ink jet, so I chucked it, a perfectly good, running as good as new, > laser printer, turned boat anchor. > > My brother, who works in the printer business, told me they had a history > of this, and had left a trail of irate ex-customers. Since then, I won't > touch them. Only epson cartridges I have used came withthe printer! > > So personally, I'd recommend sticking with HP. They seem to be the leader > in printers for good reason (as opposed to being the leader due to > unethical and anti-competitive business practices).
-- Guy Fualks - The only man to enter the houses of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up).
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