[ubuntu-uk] Recommendations for a printer?

[Liam Proven]

On 22 January 2012 13:18, Stuart Ward <stuart.ward at bcs.org> wrote:
>> Anybody requiring a cheap mono laser printer, I can recommend the Samsung ML-1865, £39.99 from Staples.[1] I used the PPA from [2] to install the drivers and everything has run smoothly since.
>
> Yes but it still urks me that cartridges are more expensive than the printer.

That's "irks". :¬) "Urk" sounds like my cat trying to expel a hairball. :¬D

HP printers tend to work very well with Ubuntu/Mint in my experience -
older models just plug & go, newer ones require you to update to the
latest HPLIP, but that's easy and a straightforward free download. The
one package covers all current HPs.

Epson, the last time I looked, needed a different driver for each
printer & I had to make a directory deep in the spooler hierarchy to
get the driver to install for the cheap all-in-one I was testing.
There were also separate drivers for scanning and so on.

Canon - many Pixma models do work, but again, there are lots of
different drivers for different model ranges. It's not quite one per
model but there were quite a few to choose from.

I've tried a couple of Kodaks and they worked well too, once the
specific driver was installed - which was a battle as Kodak don't make
them readily available. Kodak have some of the cheapest ink around, I
believe.

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