Dennis Myers wrote:
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> I agree, I have hp printers laserjet and inkjet and an HP Presario Laptop that
> all work very well in linux. HP even sells a laptop with linux installed.
> I do not agree that lexmark are very good printers. They have in the past sued
> a company for making ink cartridges that work on lexmark printers. They lost
> thank heaven, but their DRM stance seems to be a bit on the MS side of
> attitude.
Almost right. It was toner cartridges, not inkjet.
http://www.drmwatch.com/legal/article.php/3095371
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OK, I apologize for hurting people with my comments about HP. To start of, I didn't mean it in a bad way, as a matter of fact I stop using desktop computers a few years ago and since then my favorite laptop brand after Dell (no discussion about it) is HP. As a matter of fact my two current laptops are HP and let me tell you I'm really happy with them.
About printers. I hate printers, I decided a few years ago not to have a home printer unless extremely necessary. At my office I prefer HP for heavy duty devices and any other when users require locally printing.
Becuase I have bought the 'cheaper' printers on the market lately for those users which devices needed to be replaced I made not a smart decision to get the cheapest for these users. Guess what? during the year I bought 5 HP (the cheapest ones) they didn't last 4 months and SURPRISE: no warrantie on those devices.
Those of you in US would be surprised that we have no guarantie but trust me, I live a few years over there and got use to 'no question asked', 'money back warantie', etc, and I love it.
You all agree that was my fault and a bad decision, I know, I gave it a try and have recently bought an HP1022n LaserJet for a small department (3 persons) and have a tech support guy to install it in my office (networked) before sending it to that department. Since I've been thinking about those printers lately I wanted to try it first. My opinion about 1022n (which is still in my office) extremely NOISE and very slow.
Since I'm back to grad school and I choose and online program this time, my eyes hurt after reading for a few hours so I decided it was time to get a home printer (and get to be a laser) so decided to give it a try to somebody else but HP.
Laser quality, linux compatible, not expensive (you were right when mentioning that my laser is not in the same cost rank as a very good device) locally didn't have that many choices so I decided to give it a try to lexmark. Hope not regreat it (not considering cartridge cost).
To end the story, nothing personal against HP (have use their devices for a long time: laptops, cd writers, etc) but just have not had good experience with their printers 'lately'.
Thank you all for all your comments. To be new in this group, you guys make me feel at home.
