[Tfug] Printers

[Jeffry Johnston]

Just thought I should mention my cheap 4 year old Brother HL-1440
laser printer (1200x600 dpi) has treated me well.  I'm still on the
original supplied toner cartridge, so I guess I give it light usage.
I did upgrade the memory, though, since the supplied memory was not
really enough for graphics.

The Brother color laser has really good reviews too, I might pick one
up when (if?) this thing finally runs out of toner.

Jeff



On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Jim Secan <jim at nwra.com> wrote:
> A timely observation, and opposite to my experience on Friday.  I've got
> an HP OfficeJet Pro L7850 on my network that I normally print to from my
> sole remaining Windows box (yes, it was a bitch to get working, and it
> doesn't work entirely correctly, but it did print immediately after the
> long install - more of an HP problem than a Windows problem, however).
> Tried to config my CentOS machine to print to it, with zero success after
> two reboots of the system (the Print Config app froze twice and would not
> restart correctly without a reboot) and a printer power-cycle (it froze
> trying to print the test page).  This printer isn't on the config list, so
> I defaulted to the standard HP hpijs (I think that's right) driver
> (DirectJet connection option used).  Gave up because I don't have time to
> be a printer/computer tech person.  So any color output goes to my Windows
> machine and I print it from there.  My experience with Linux has been that
> network printers can be, for whatever reason, trickier to get working
> right than a directly-connected printer.
>
> Jim
>
> Steve wrote:
>>
>> I have switched everything to Debian and Ubuntu, and was pleasantly
>> surprised with the printer.  It takes a 35mb software download and 15
>> minutes of install time to get the HP printer working with windows.  I
>> plugged the printer into Ubuntu, and it printed a test page immediately.
>>
>>
>>
>> That's a switch, I assumed it would take at least as long with linux.
>>
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