[Gllug] Looking for a printer recommendation

[Julian Somers]

On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 11:15:20PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
>  So what I'm looking for is a printer 

I got a reconditioned HP Laserjet 5N network printer for fifty quid
from http://www.homenet-uk.com/. Very good printer. Came full of toner. 

Julian

> 
> For some years I've been using an HP OfficeJet printer/scanner.  It
> has dodgy but workable drivers for the Mac, and works OK under Linux.
> But by far the best "feature" was that my flatmate's company paid for
> all the paper and ink supplies and so I didn't get price-gouged with
> the usual HP ink scam.
> 
> Sadly this era is coming to an end, and I'm going to have to buy my
> own printer and supplies.  So what I'm looking for is a printer (don't
> much care about a scanner) which works well under Linux, and is made
> by a company which doesn't generate most of its revenue from selling
> expensive ink.
> 
> Now I have no real idea about printers.  Inkjets are slow and
> expensive to run.  Does this afflict all makes of inkjet?  Last time I
> looked seriously at laser printers they all cost thousands of pounds
> and couldn't print in colour - well, that was 20 years ago.  I had a
> quick look on Google, and it looks like colour laser printers are a
> little bit cheaper now.  Are there any which are cheap to run, even if
> expensive to buy?  And not made by companies like HP which like to
> advertise how many patent monopolies they've been granted?
> 
> Rich.
> 
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