[mdlug] HP Linux Printer At Big LOTS?

David Relson relson at osagesoftware.com
Tue Mar 18 07:29:28 EDT 2008


On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:26:15 -0400
Peter Bart wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 20:46 -0700, David Lane wrote:
> > Currently I have My eyes on the HP 2605nd Color Laser Duplexing
> > Networked. 
> > 
> > I have tp plan for it because it runs from 449 - 499. 
> > 
> > David 
> 
> Oooooooooh, shiney pretty I want ;) But seriously, my next one will
> be a color laser. After spitting up the bucks for a Brother mono
> laser with sheet feeder years ago, I'm never going back. Toner is
> cheap but I've never replaced a cartridge yet. I would look at
> Brother again only because they do provide drivers in rpm and deb and
> detailed instructions on how to install. It's not as painless as HP
> though.

I've got a Brother networked black & white printer.  It works well
except for printing envelopes which feed in skewed.  

My old LaserJet did much better on envelopes but didn't have Linux
drivers hence was (generally) less useful.



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