HP. I am not happy about it but, I am not irritated nearly so much if I just stick with them.
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 2:55 AM, Paul Boniol <[email protected]> wrote: > My recommendation depends on print volume, color/B&W, etc. > > I was stunned when HP turned to the same breakable printer as all the > others, I was crushed when my IIIp died. (And even when I was looking for > high volume printers, HP was even worse than competitors for our needs.) > They started doing some funky things, and I consider them pretty much > Lexmark equivalent, though as said, you can generally find more suppliers > of toner, etc. I have no recent experience. Perhaps worth another look > since it has been years... > > Home wired networked use, I definitely like my Brother B&W laser, Linux > support, Post Script built in, never broken on me. What's not to like? > > Canon, especially in the SOHO arena, has virtually non-existent Linux / > PostScript support, no experience with their lasers. (I like their inkjet > results, 100 year ink, more accurate colors. Just hate the lack of Linux > support.) > > Work, we still pretty much have to buy Dell until you get out of the > personal / very small workgroup B&W arena (because they give us a > low/discount price). > > Large volume, the accountants have evidently crunched the numbers and come > out that leasing from R J Young (with Vanderbilt discount) comes out better > than buying. (YMMV) Generally Ricoh, but Xerox is a strong competitor in > the large volume print arena. Xerox is the way to go if you need the > printer to track usage by user as it is built in (e.g. who printed 5000 > full color pages? When?). Ricoh has PostScript as an add-on, Xerox it is > native. If you're in this arena, definitely get some sort of support > agreement, especially fixing a Xerox without extended service agreement is > REALLY expensive. (Oki was a strong competitor back several years, but as > far as I know RJY doesn't carry them, haven't had experience.) > > Perhaps goes without saying, but unfortunately, regardless of printer > line, I don't really see the sturdiness (i.e. virtually non-breakable-ness) > in anything recent like the old HP 3/4 series had, especially internally. > "We built it cheaper, lower cost means more sales over competitors, it > will break sooner, then we can sell a new one more quickly" mentality seems > to be everywhere these days. :-\ > > Paul > > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: > >> We've all deployed umpteen gazillion printers over the years. >> >> I've gotten kinda bummed out on the market leader - HP. The single digit >> HP LaserJets were tanks (the LJ 4si/Mx was awesome) but the 4 digit units >> have issues. HP struggles to distinguish themselves from their own PCL by >> layering on other crap. >> >> So what is your current recommendation for a monochrome, wired network >> (not wifi) workgroup printer?? HP, Samsung, Canon, Brother (cough, cough), >> Lexmark (the suggestion of which might get me shot here), Xerox. The list >> goes on and on. >> >> Not interested in multifunction. Just more things to break. >> >> Howard >> > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
