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Re: Your Thoughts on Printer Replacement

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On 18/09/2021 7:05 am, Dan Ritter wrote:
> Charles Curley wrote:
>> Requirements:
>>
>> * I print rarely, and I do use color. The carts on the L7700 tend to
>>    go bad before they empty, Inkjet or laser? Or other?
>>
>> * Buster and Bullseye should both support any recommendations. I don't
>>    use Windows.
>>
>> I've had good results with HP over the years, and they support Linux
>> well.
>>
>> Reccomendations?
> I have standard recommendations. In your case, I would ask: do
> you need a printer?
>
> If it's convenient for you to go to a local print shop, it will
> be cheaper to use their high quality printers. It looks like
> there are five places like that in town. (I looked at your web
> page.)
>
> If you print in black/white more often than you need color, you could
> still use a local print shop or get things mailed to you for those
> occasions - photos and posters, especially, but basically any document.
>
> In that case, get a monochrome laser printer. I recommend a
> Brother with all of the following features:
>
> - BRScript/3 (their PostScript emulator)
> - ethernet jack
> - duplex
>
> Prices start at about $100.
>
> Other people can direct you to reliable color laser printers.
>
> -dsr-

I agree totally on using laser over inkjet. The cost per page and print 
speed are far superior for laser.

Worse is inkjet life. They inevitably clog or jam after only a few 
hundred pages.

I do find that labels and envelopes usually don't fare well in cheap 
lasers. That is the advantage inkjets have. I worked around this by 
buying a cheap thermal label printer on aliexpress and wrote a linux 
driver for it. My cost per small label is 0.5c and large 2c. My toner 
cost per laser page is around 0.5c so maybe 1c per page for life of 
printer (fuji-xerox)

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Your Thoughts on Printer Replacement Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-09-18 00:50 +0200
  Re: Your Thoughts on Printer Replacement Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-09-18 01:10 +0200
    Re: Your Thoughts on Printer Replacement jeremy ardley <jeremy@ardley.org> - 2021-09-18 01:30 +0200
      Re: Your Thoughts on Printer Replacement "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com> - 2021-09-18 02:20 +0200
    Re: Your Thoughts on Printer Replacement deloptes <emanoil.kotsev@deloptes.org> - 2021-09-18 08:00 +0200
  Re: Your Thoughts on Printer Replacement mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2021-09-18 09:30 +0200
  Re: Your Thoughts on Printer Replacement Douglas McGarrett <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2021-09-22 21:40 +0200
  Re: Your Thoughts on Printer Replacement Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-10-04 23:50 +0200

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