[Nottingham] Choosing a Printer

[Jason Irwin]

On 21/03/12 11:20, Barry Drake wrote:
> My sole consideration when buying my last printer is the cost of
> upkeep.  There is an enormous difference in ink cost and cartridge
> content.

Ink was why I was considering a "continuous ink supply system" or
"CISS".  But trying to find a printer that is confirmed GNU/Linux
compatible and has a CISS available is nigh-on impossible.  The ink also
has a shelf-life so unless you are going to burn through 10 cartridges
in 2 years there's probably no point (and there is something about
having to transfer the cartridge chips - and some of the HP chips will
expire).

The high-capacity HP cartridges cost £15-£18 and will do between 700 and
1,200 pages depending on the exact model.  Not so dreadful for light
printing duties.

Even HP who are pretty GNU/Linux savvy cannot confirm if a current
printer like the OfficeJet 6500A will work (hplip lists a variety of
6500 printers, but not with the same model number as the HP shop
[cn755A] so there is no way to be sure it will work).  Checking other
shop shows the (supposedly) same printer changing size, weight, colour
and even spec. *sob*

And I thought finding a new graphics card was hard!

-- 
Jason Irwin