[Gllug] OT: HP Officejet 5610

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On Mon, 1 May 2006, Richard Jones yowled:
> The machine itself is cheaply made, and the supplies are ruinously
> expensive.  The printer died after about a year and a half of light
> use.

In my experience this is true of all inkjets regardless of make.

Get a laser. (Mine, a Samsung ML-2250, cost under a hundred quid and
is driven happily by CUPS and the pxlmono driver. Doesn't do duplex
though.)

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