Printer

[Brent Hughes]

Sorry,

I should have qualified my comments as they pertain to MFC units.

There are no printer drivers for my Canon, whether from Canon or open 
source but I did get the print functions (not the fax or scanner) using 
an earlier Canon printer driver for Linux. Not any such luck with the 
Lexmark. Both are laser network printers and the Lexmark has turned into 
a boat anchor as it is useless under Linux.

As for injet printers.....they are a pain and a rip off.

If you print daily they cost an arm and a leg even if you refill 
yourself. Print cartridges wear out eventually and you have to 
eventually buy another one to continue refilling operations. If you 
don't print daily then you run the risk of the print head drying up and 
then you have a hassle of cleaning and refilling to get back in 
operational mode.

Laser printers, single function or MFCs, are the route to take as they 
offer economical operating cost and reliability. Print once a month and 
things come out fine, print daily and the cost is far cheaper than any 
inkjet. Here in Edmonton there are several suppliers of re-manufactured 
cartridges that offer fully warranted and compatible laser carts that 
average about half the cost of the brand names.

I now run a Brother MFC that cost me 100 bucks new on sale and a 
re-manufactured toner cart is only sixty bucks and does 4500 pages. The 
toner guy even gave me credit for my empty toner carts driving the cost 
even lower. Beats any injet I've ever owned. BTW, I have no use for 
colour printers so once again my comments relate to mono laser units.

Brent
 

alfred wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brent Hughes <brent-hughes at shaw.ca>
> Reply-to: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community
> <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: Printer
> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:09:32 -0700
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>
> Raymond,
>
> I second the Brother printer recommendation and add Samsung too. Stay 
> away from Lexmark and Canon as from personal experience I found little 
> or no functionality with these two brands.
>
> Brent
>
> Hi:
>
> I did a little bit of Ink Jet Cartridge refilling over the last 10
> years. At a Dump down the road I found an S-750. I took the print head
> out, cleaned it, and it works ever since, using the S-630 Driver, in
> Linux. Not bad for a $2.00 Printer. All the older Canon Printers I have
> worked very well with Linux. The BJC-2000 could make use of a Big Ink
> Tank Cartridge. At one place I refilled the cartridge 87 times, before
> it Died! The Aluminum Heat Sink causes the thing to last just about for
> ever! In secondhand stores you can find them for $5.00. If you just
> want Black this is a Good one. The Driver for the S-750 works now very
> well in Colour, and BW. Ink you can get from IMS, LLC 1-888-304-6125 or
> www.ims-ink.com They have a kit of refill in for $35.00 meant for 3
> Colour and 5 Colour Printers, with a little book for refilling
> questions. One kit lasts more than a year. The S-750 or the S series
> use large ink tanks and the 3e Cartridges, cheaper than Print Head
> Cartridges, easy to refill. A canon 1000 or 2000 Printer can make use
> of the BC-03 Cartridge. It takes enough Ink to keep it running 1/2 a
> year or more in BW.
>
> Brother Printers check for the drivers on their Web Site because, not
> all of them work with Linux.
>
> Epson is very good if you are going to do a lot of printing with
> Inkjets. Removing the print head is Major Surgery! It's very hard to
> clean the print head, also the hose going from the pump to the Felt
> Block gets Dried Ink in it and this makes the printer not work any more
> without Major Surgery! Some of the newer Cartridges from Epson are
> designed to complicate Refilling. 
>
> HP Printers work very well with Linux. Scanners used to work well, I
> might need a new Scanner because Xsane driver no longer works with my
> HP scanner.
>
> Alfred!
>
>
>