Printer Question

Robert Holtzm holtzm at cox.net
Tue Aug 27 00:15:19 UTC 2013


On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 05:57:43PM +0000, Juan R. de Silva wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 05:51:28 -0700, Barry Premeaux wrote:
> 
> I had before HP OfficeJet. It is a common consensus that HP is well 
> supported in Linux. In my experience however the Brother drivers are way, 
> way better then hplip. My HP OfficeJet did not have built-in duplex and I 
> had to use hplip provided manual "duplex" option. That is printing first 
> odd pages, then turning the pile over and printing the even pages. hplip 
> always screwed it up giving me headache. I not only had to turn the whole 
> pile over but I had to turn each page up down too. That was a nightmare.
> 
> Speaking of quality of the printer itself, there is no way HP flimsy 
> printers can come even close with the quality of my Brother MFC. Very 
> sturdy build, reliable workhorse. I have a laser All-in-One with duplex 
> built-in (no wireless) and, since I get it on sale, it cost me much less 
> than the flimsy HP OfficeJet. After I've discovered for myself Brother 
> MFCs, I'd never go back to any of HP products.

Looking at their web site I see no inkjet printers. I have no experience
with laserjets. How do they work with long (weeks/months) periods of
inactivity?

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Bob Holtzman
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