Anita, Hi Scott: HP Printers are Linux Frie...

[Mr. C clark]

Anita,

Hi Scott:
 
HP Printers are Linux Friendly and will usually work right out of the
box. If you don't do much printing, get the cartridge with a print-head
in it. Ink Tank Printers XOR Cartridge with Print head printers, have a
little pump in them, and the bottom of the printer has a hose to a piece
of felt. Here with little use the Ink Dries out and clogs the hose,
making the print head Clog up too. (With no way to unclog it) Canon
Printers are usually the Ink tank Type of printer, however the Dried Ink
is not Gummy, and I'm using an S750, and it works just fine with the
S630 Driver. In newer Versions of Ubuntu it may detect the printer and
then download the driver, that is needed. Ep* printers do a real nice
job of printing, provided that you do a whole bunch of printing. Ep*
Printers have to be taken apart to clean the print head. Canon Printers
that use Ink tanks have in most cases removable print heads, that are
then easy to Clean, and you don't need to take the whole printer apart
to get to the print head. Several newer Printers have Dongles on the
Printer Ink Tank, such as Ep* and you would need a Chip Resetter to take
the Cartridge out to clean the attached print head, and then put it back
in, so it works again. Many Newer Ink Jet Printers are very hard to
refill, where as older Printers like the Canon 1000 or 2000 can be
refilled almost a Thousand times, before the print head fails. These had
Aluminium Heatsinks on the Printhead, so they lasted much longer than 8
times. (these had BC03 - Cartridges with a big reservoir, and Aluminium
Heatsink on the print head.) They were either Black or Colour.
 
2nd Hand Shops are good places to buy Printers. prices are $5.00 to
$15.00 and you get something a bit older, easier to refill.  If it don't
work $5.00 was not much to loose. Make sure there is a filled Cartridge
with the 2nd hand one, otherwise you are making a $50.00 Gamble buying a
cartridge for a printer that may not work! A used Business Printer
usually has very big Ink Tanks. You fill them or replace them once a
year. 
 
New ones Canon, HP are good in most cases, Lex*  may not be Linux
Friendly, yes there are drivers for Linux, but my results were not that
good! 
 
Brother Printers most have Linux Drivers (not all). Like HP, Brother has
Laser Printers too. Most will work with Linux. Check out the Websites of
HP, Brother, and Canon. Also Check for www.linuxprinting.org they have a
list there with things that work and Don't work! (Canon's Website does
not sport Linux Drivers last time I looked!)
 
Hope this helps a bit. 
 
Alfred!
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott 
Reply-To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community

To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community 
Subject: Good Affordable Printer
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:46:53 -0400
Mailer: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20080925)
 
I'm looking for a good affordable (Hopefully $50 or under) printer that 
works well with Kubuntu.  I don't need any other features, just need it 
to print.  I also don't care about the price of ink as I don't print 
very often and know the lower the price the higher the price of ink.
 
I would prefer a printer that works out of the box with Kubuntu from a 
company that is Linux friendly, but that I consider a bonus.
 
Any help would be appreciated.
 
-- 
Your friend,
Scott

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