I buy HP printers/scanners exclusively because of their trouble free Linux support. In order to save on consumables later (after cca. 2050), I have chosen enterprise (not customer) printer/scanner; thus trading the cost of the printer for the price of the consumables. In my case it is zero cost game, saving me the shopping trip to buy printers/consumables.
Given the low number of print out pages per year, I do not expect to run out of toner before 2050, some time after my departure from this world! Tomas On Sun, 2016-09-25 at 15:52 -0700, Vedanta Teacher wrote: > I had a similar problem with MS turning off my Word and Office > functions by remote after I had purchased a full licence & demanding > blackmail, er.. more money to turn the software back on. > What it came down to for me was this: > If I write something in MS Word who owns the intellectual property > rights? I think MS does. So, I switched to Libre Office. > > Blessings, > Paul W > > On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 2:44 PM, Rich Shepard < > [email protected]> > wrote: > > > On Sat, 24 Sep 2016, King Beowulf wrote: > > > > > > HP just made it impossible to use third-party ink in its > > > > printers > > > --snip--- > > > > > Also, over the decades, I've had mixed experiences with 3rd-party > > > ink. > > > For lasers, in an FDA CGMP regulated pharmaceutical lab, HP > > > cartridges > > > on good archival paper were always superior. The front office > > > used > > > cheaper generics where the fused ink tended to flake off the > > > page. For > > > inkjets, generic cartridges tended to clog more often and the ink > > > tended > > > to bleed on the page. > > > > FWIW, I buy refilled HP laser cartridges for both the LJ-5 > > monochome > > and 2550L > > color at Cartridge World and they've all worked great for me. My > > inkjet > > experience (with an large format HP deskjet) was not happy because > > I used > > it > > infrequently and the print heads would clog. Heads and color > > cartridges > > were > > separate and cost $75 each; that's an expensive replacement cost. > > > > Ed's correct that many of us print infrequently. I'll stick with > > my old > > HP > > laser printers as long as I can. > > > > Rich > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
