ubuntu-ca Digest, colour printers

[J&L]

John Papineau from Nelson Ubuntu reply

Thank


Gordon Dey wrote:
> I really liked my Lexmark c520 (staples.ca: c522). It plugged into the network, 
> spoke ipp therefore cups, out of the box). It had a web interface, snmp, apple 
> talk (untested), understood NTP, DNS, and could send email you if it had 
> trouble. You name it. Price was good, $350 cdn. The colour prints (CMYK) were 
> great--overall, a great colour printer for linux. Worked like a dream.
>
> Why past-tense then?
>
> First of all, the printer seems *really* sensitive. The NIC on the first one 
> died 3 days after installation.  Then 9 months later, second one hung on 
> power-up. Email to support folks lead to the magic 3-fingered salute, and that 
> lead to a understanding something internal to the printer mechanism died--I 
> have to ship it to lexmark on my dime. Embedded computer still works fine :(
>
> Secondly, the replacement cartridges (of which I wound up having bought a set), 
> lasted less than the originals (200 vs 800 pages) yet, cost more than the price 
> of the whole doggone printer new (about $480 for CMYK set!)
>
> So, for less then the cost of one cartridge, I bought a whole new (with 
> cartridge) samsung ml2xxx printer and it's been working since. Not colour, but 
> cost effective.
>
> ubuntu-ca-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 04:11:55 -0800
>> From: J&L <j_lp at shaw.ca>
>> Subject: buying a new printer for color printer for Ubuntu 7.04 and
>> 	7.10
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>> Hi My name is John Papineau and I support and promote Ubuntu in Canada 
>> in the B.C area in the Town of Nelson  and surrounding area. I would 
>> like to Know if anyone know were I can buy new printer that will work 
>> with Ubuntu 7.04 and 7.10 . I have been setting up individual with 
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