Re: OT: recommendations for a low-volume, ,> cheap-to-use/maintain home printer for use with Fedora 31

2020-01-11 Thread R. G. Newbury
On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 7:15 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: On 1/11/20 9:14 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2020-01-11 at 23:18 +1030, Tim via users wrote: On Fri, 2020-01-10 at 09:25 -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: the printing is largely of documents, but the printer sits for a while doing

Re: OT: recommendations for a low-volume, cheap-to-use/maintain home printer for use with Fedora 31

2020-01-11 Thread Mauricio Tavares
On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 7:15 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 1/11/20 9:14 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Sat, 2020-01-11 at 23:18 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > >> On Fri, 2020-01-10 at 09:25 -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >>> the printing is largely of documents, but the printer sits for a >

Re: OT: recommendations for a low-volume, cheap-to-use/maintain home printer for use with Fedora 31

2020-01-11 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 1/11/20 9:14 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2020-01-11 at 23:18 +1030, Tim via users wrote: On Fri, 2020-01-10 at 09:25 -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: the printing is largely of documents, but the printer sits for a while doing nothing. I guess laser is the way to go then? What are

Re: OT: recommendations for a low-volume, cheap-to-use/maintain home printer for use with Fedora 31

2020-01-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2020-01-11 at 23:18 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > On Fri, 2020-01-10 at 09:25 -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > the printing is largely of documents, but the printer sits for a > > while doing nothing. I guess laser is the way to go then? What are > > goog suggestions then? > > I'd say

Re: OT: recommendations for a low-volume, cheap-to-use/maintain home printer for use with Fedora 31

2020-01-11 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2020-01-10 at 09:25 -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > the printing is largely of documents, but the printer sits for a > while doing nothing. I guess laser is the way to go then? What are > goog suggestions then? I'd say laser is the better option. For text, they usually print better than

Re: OT: recommendations for a low-volume, cheap-to-use/maintain home printer for use with Fedora 31

2020-01-10 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 1/10/20 7:25 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Thanks very much! Sorry, the printing is largely of documents, but the printer sits for a while doing nothing. I guess laser is the way to go then? What are goog suggestions then? If you don't need color, then there are some nice, cheap laser printers

Re: OT: recommendations for a low-volume, cheap-to-use/maintain home printer for use with Fedora 31

2020-01-10 Thread SternData
I have a Canon MX-922, which can usually be found cheaply. I buy ink at inkjets.com at a very reasonable price. On 1/9/20 4:05 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi, > > What would be a good low-volume, cheap-to-use/maintain home printer for use > with Fedora 31 and beyond? > > Many thanks,

Re: OT: recommendations for a low-volume, cheap-to-use/maintain home printer for use with Fedora 31

2020-01-10 Thread Fred Smith
On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 09:25:57AM -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Thanks very much! Sorry, the printing is largely of documents, but the > printer sits for a while doing nothing. I guess laser is the way to go then? > What are goog suggestions then? I have two Brother printers in-house, a

Re: OT: recommendations for a low-volume, cheap-to-use/maintain home printer for use with Fedora 31

2020-01-10 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Thanks very much! Sorry, the printing is largely of documents, but the printer sits for a while doing nothing. I guess laser is the way to go then? What are goog suggestions then? Ranjan On Fri, 10 Jan 2020 20:26:23 +1030 Tim via users wrote: > On Thu, 2020-01-09 at 16:05 -0600, Ranjan

Re: OT: recommendations for a low-volume, cheap-to-use/maintain home printer for use with Fedora 31

2020-01-10 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2020-01-10 at 20:26 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > On Thu, 2020-01-09 at 16:05 -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > What would be a good low-volume, cheap-to-use/maintain home printer > > for use with Fedora 31 and beyond? > > You should probably say what kind of things are important to you. >

Re: OT: recommendations for a low-volume, cheap-to-use/maintain home printer for use with Fedora 31

2020-01-10 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2020-01-09 at 16:05 -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > What would be a good low-volume, cheap-to-use/maintain home printer > for use with Fedora 31 and beyond? You should probably say what kind of things are important to you. Colour, printing photos, or just documents... I use a second-hand

Re: OT: recommendations for a low-volume, cheap-to-use/maintain home printer for use with Fedora 31

2020-01-09 Thread sixpack13
On 09.01.20 23:05, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Hi, What would be a good low-volume, cheap-to-use/maintain home printer for use with Fedora 31 and beyond? ... cheap to maintain: I would suggest a S/W Laser (=> start and print without hassle [dried in ink]) Duplex (spares the wood), LAN, toner

Re: OT: recommendations for a low-volume, cheap-to-use/maintain home printer for use with Fedora 31

2020-01-09 Thread Ben Cotton
On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 5:09 PM Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > What would be a good low-volume, cheap-to-use/maintain home printer for use > with Fedora 31 and beyond? > I've been using an HP Envy 4510 for the last few years. It's an inkjet printer/scanner and works well with CUPS. -- Ben Cotton He /