Lexmark Z645 Printer

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 03 December 2007, David McGlone wrote:
>On Sunday 02 December 2007 9:15:20 pm D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
>> On Sunday 02 December 2007, David McGlone wrote:
>> > > printed right on the box, and that was pretty deceptive of them.  It
>> > > came with an old binary driver for a version of Red Hat that was
>> > > obsolete at the time of purchase, and that was all they felt they
>> > > needed to do to claim "Works with Linux" prominently.
>> >
>> > You too? Wouldn't you call this shady? I do.
>>
>> Probably not shady, as long as the printer actually works with Red Hat
>> Enterprise 0.3.2 with a 2.0.x series kernel, but definitely obnoxious and
>> tricky.
>
>Using deception to sell a product in my book is shady. Even though the
> printer worked with RH Enterprise, they never printed that. They gave,
> maybe not you, but me the impression that the printer worked with linux in
> general. I can't prove it, but I believe it was intentionally printed on
> the box that way, So that is why I believe they are shady.
>
>My definition of "shady" is where I am walking that thin line between
> trusting Lexmark and not trusting them. In no way am I saying they make bad
> printers.
>
I will.  We bought some of the $400 laser ones for the news dept several years 
ago, roughly half a ream of paper a day through them.  We put cookie sheets 
under them to catch the small parts that fell out daily, thinking I could 
stay ahead of them by re-installing the pieces.  I couldn't keep up, so that 
experiment was terminated in about 3 weeks, replaced them all with 2 HP 
4050's.  And a service contract...

>--
>David M.
>
>Stay away from hurricanes for a while.



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