On Saturday 19 June 2004 03:40 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: | On Saturday 19 June 2004 04:33, JRH wrote: | > Hi all, | > | > I gotta buy a new printer, as my old HP 510 has finally died. | > | > I've got my eye on a Lexmark USB version (cos it's cheap!) and my | | neighbour | | > has one, and it works ok for him, but on Windows. | > | > Has anyone had any Mandrake and USB printer experience? Will it work | | on 10CE | | > without a huge amount of upheaval? | > | > I dont want to go buy it and find I gotta go into Windoze to use
STAY AWAY FROM LEXMARK!!!!! They are pieces of &%*^. The reason they are dirt cheap is because the ink is extremely costly--what you save on the printer you will pay out in ink. Get an Epson or an HP and buy aftermarket cartridges. The drivers for both are pretty good, but I think the HP is somewhat better, and the aftermarket carts are better, IMO. My 940 and 1120 work very well, and the newer ones will probably be o.k. with a driver for an older model (I set up an 1160 Photo with a dj960 driver and it worked fine--just didn't have all the functionality a "real" 1160 driver would have). As someone else mentioned, the Linux drivers aren't as good and lack features that the Win drivers have. e
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