An Ubuntu Friendly Printer Recommendation.

[Liam Proven]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 2:30 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10 March 2010 14:08, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Disclaimer: I'm selling Linux computers to end-users at the moment,
>> but I think that what people ask and expect of computers today is fair
>> enough. "The printer works" actually means "I take it out of the box,
>> I plug it in and I can print". Nothing more must be required of the
>> user - no manual installation, compiling drivers, re-assigning
>> different models or anything. No user intervention past plugging in
>> the cable is the standard to go for here.
>
>
> Yeah. CUPS is *mostly* good here, except of course that the business
> model for printers is "disposable piece of garbage that uses our
> expensive cartridges."

Yep. PITA, that.

>>> Lastly, I wouldn't use a laser printer to print a photo if you paid me
>>> for it - the colours are horrid, which is why big expensive "plotters"
>>> are always ink.
>
>> Horses for courses.
>> Inkjets may give better print quality for photos, but they cost a bomb
>> to run. Lasers are relatively cheap.
>
> I bought a lovely six-colour Epson inkjet specifically for lovely
> photos, fully aware of the running costs. Of course, the thing's
> broken now (paper feeder doesn't work) 'cos it was cheap plastic
> rubbish. Good for a few years, though.
>
> At work we have a four-colour HP laser (which works straight out of
> CUPS in Ubuntu 9.10) which does really quite nice photos. Not as good
> as an inkjet at its best, but certainly not "horrid" by any stretch.
> Mind you, said laser is huge and expensive and doubles as a
> photocopier and scanner and is definitely built to take a beating in
> an office setting.

Sounds good, if one can afford it. For home use, Michael's £150 colour
laser sounds quite decent, actually...

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