Printer Question

Robert Holtzm holtzm at cox.net
Tue Aug 27 19:26:16 UTC 2013


On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 04:57:09PM +0100, David Fletcher wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-08-27 at 22:02 +1200, chris wrote:
> > On 27/08/13 12:15, Robert Holtzm wrote:
> > > 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?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > In my opinion and experience, very well
> > 
> > 
> I bought a Brother HL-3040CN for exactly that reason. It hardly ever
> gets used but when I need to print something, I need it to just print,
> properly, without screwing around for half a day getting blocked jets
> cleared. So far, it has done just that.
> 
> You can also get the Brother drivers to work with CUPS on a headless
> Ubuntu server. Then you only need to put the drivers on the server
> rather than every PC. I wrote all about how I did it a few months ago.

Thanks to all that replied. It sounds like my next printer will be a
Brother.

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Bob Holtzman
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