[Wylug-help] Colour printer buying advice

Dick W xpd259 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 15 19:46:52 BST 2007


hiya

I use a hp psc 1205  as they do the scanning / printing
and with my low usage ink tends to last over a year :0)

also under gentoo I have no problems with drivers / ink utils
I can't comment on other distro's



Dick

On 15/10/2007, Louisa Parry <louisa at louisaparry.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> We're looking to buy a colour printer but after browsing through the
> millions of different options available and reading countless reviews,
> I'm still at a loss about which one to go for.
>
> Anyone got any recommendations?
>
> Our criteria:
> - we won't use it much so it doesn't have to be particularly quick or
> heavy duty (we've got an old mono laser printer for when we don't need
> colour);
> - not too expensive to buy (up to a max of about £200);
> - not too expensive to run - we won't use that much ink but we don't
> want to be locked out because we've not replaced the cartridge every 15
> minutes or some other marginally-justified effort to rip us off;
> - either laser or inkjet is fine;
> - decent print quality - photo quality would be ideal but not essential;
> - and, finally an essential: works with linux - ubuntu's gutsy after its
> release on Thursday ;)
>
> So any suggestions?
>
> -Louisa :)
>
>
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