Re: suggestions for all-in-one

2012-02-06 Thread Henry Paul
On 02/06/2012 04:54 PM, Steven Alligood wrote: > I vote for laser. > > Example. > > The Brother HL2270-DW is about $100. > > The 2600 page toner cartridge is $45 > > Compared to most inkjet cartridges at $30 for 500 prints, it is 1/3 the > price. > > > AND the printer includes wifi, prints 27 pages

Re: suggestions for all-in-one

2012-02-06 Thread Steven Alligood
I vote for laser. Example. The Brother HL2270-DW is about $100. The 2600 page toner cartridge is $45 Compared to most inkjet cartridges at $30 for 500 prints, it is 1/3 the price. AND the printer includes wifi, prints 27 pages per minute at 2400x600 dpi, and has built in duplexing. Hard

Re: suggestions for all-in-one

2012-02-04 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:53:46 -0700 "Doran L. \"Fozz\" Barton" wrote: > Ooooh. When one of the manufactures comes out with an all-in-one that > shreds too, that'll be so cool. ;-) Just buy a cheap printer. They will cheerfully print and shred simultaneously. But because they are cheap the facilit

Re: suggestions for all-in-one

2012-02-03 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said "Doran L. \"Fozz\" Barton" on Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:53:46 MST: > Ooooh. When one of the manufactures comes out with an all-in-one that > shreds too, that'll be so cool. ;-) Just don't forget to shred the internal hard drive before you dispose of the all-in-one. :-) Andy /* PLUG: http:

Re: suggestions for all-in-one

2012-02-03 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 02/03/2012 05:37 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 02/03/2012 04:28 PM, Daniel Fussell wrote: >> And the Universal Print Drivers are crap; they want to talk >> directly to the printer. Maybe the driver output would be better if >> they were allowed to talk directly to the printer and could s

Re: suggestions for all-in-one

2012-02-03 Thread Michael Torrie
On 02/03/2012 04:51 PM, Gabriel Gunderson wrote: > I know this doesn't help much, but I must chime in... I hate > all-in-one printers-faxes-scanners-copiers-shredders > > This is my philosophy: Buy hardware that does one thing and does it > well. Make your hardware work together. Write programs th

Re: suggestions for all-in-one

2012-02-03 Thread Michael Torrie
On 02/03/2012 04:28 PM, Daniel Fussell wrote: > And the Universal Print Drivers are crap; they want to talk > directly to the printer. Maybe the driver output would be better if > they were allowed to talk directly to the printer and could switch modes > to something better suited, but we

Re: suggestions for all-in-one

2012-02-03 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 02/03/2012 04:53 PM, Doran L. "Fozz" Barton wrote: > On 02/03/2012 04:51 PM, Gabriel Gunderson wrote: >> I know this doesn't help much, but I must chime in... I hate >> all-in-one printers-faxes-scanners-copiers-shredders > Ooooh. When one of the manufactures comes out with an all-in-one that sh

Re: suggestions for all-in-one

2012-02-03 Thread Doran L. "Fozz" Barton
On 02/03/2012 04:51 PM, Gabriel Gunderson wrote: > I know this doesn't help much, but I must chime in... I hate > all-in-one printers-faxes-scanners-copiers-shredders Ooooh. When one of the manufactures comes out with an all-in-one that shreds too, that'll be so cool. ;-) -- Doran L. Barton - Hy

Re: suggestions for all-in-one

2012-02-03 Thread Gabriel Gunderson
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Brett Rasmussen wrote: > I'm wanting to buy a wireless laser printer-scanner-copier that works with > no headaches in linux (currently running ubuntu w/kde). I know this doesn't help much, but I must chime in... I hate all-in-one printers-faxes-scanners-copiers-shr

Re: suggestions for all-in-one

2012-02-03 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 02/03/2012 09:56 AM, S. Dale Morrey wrote: > Guess I should have mentioned that mine is in fact wireless. > > By the way, this http://goo.gl/k938g came in this morning's email. > Looks like some really good deals in there. Great time to be in the > market for a printer I guess. > I've thought

Re: suggestions for all-in-one

2012-02-03 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 02/01/2012 07:31 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 02/01/2012 02:32 PM, Jessie Adan Morris wrote: >> I have to give my vote to HP as well. Especially their laser printers. Very >> high quality, excellent Linux support, and toner is typically cheaper than >> most other manufacturers (in my experienc

Re: suggestions for all-in-one

2012-02-03 Thread Brett Rasmussen
> > I don't know, but HP (at least they used to) publish the number of pages a > cartridge should print. It shouldn't be too hard to compare the published > numbers between a black cartridge for a color printer and one for a b&w > only printer. > Good idea. Much obliged. > And the color toner

Re: suggestions for all-in-one

2012-02-03 Thread Barry Roberts
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Brett Rasmussen wrote: > Barry (or any other of you PLUG mavens), I've also been going on the > assumption that a color printer, even a color laser printer, would have > toner cartridges for black and then one each for R, G, and B, and that the > extra cartridges w

Re: suggestions for all-in-one

2012-02-03 Thread Brett Rasmussen
Barry (or any other of you PLUG mavens), I've also been going on the assumption that a color printer, even a color laser printer, would have toner cartridges for black and then one each for R, G, and B, and that the extra cartridges would take up space so that the black cartridge would have to be s

Re: suggestions for all-in-one

2012-02-03 Thread S. Dale Morrey
Guess I should have mentioned that mine is in fact wireless. By the way, this http://goo.gl/k938g came in this morning's email. Looks like some really good deals in there. Great time to be in the market for a printer I guess. On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Barry Roberts wrote: > On Fri, Feb 3

Re: suggestions for all-in-one

2012-02-03 Thread Barry Roberts
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Brett Rasmussen wrote: > All, thanks much for your suggestions. > > I don't use or research printers very often, so I don't really know the > whole state of affairs. Hence a couple of what might seem obvious > questions: > > It seems to be my experience that peopl

Re: suggestions for all-in-one

2012-02-03 Thread Brett Rasmussen
All, thanks much for your suggestions. I don't use or research printers very often, so I don't really know the whole state of affairs. Hence a couple of what might seem obvious questions: It seems to be my experience that people with inkjet printers are always buying new cartridges, and that las

Re: suggestions for all-in-one

2012-02-01 Thread Henry Paul
On 02/01/2012 02:21 PM, Brett Rasmussen wrote: > All, > I'm wanting to buy a wireless laser printer-scanner-copier that works with > no headaches in linux (currently running ubuntu w/kde). I'm in a new > place, and the all-in-one pretty much has to be in a storage closet where I > can't run a cabl

Re: suggestions for all-in-one

2012-02-01 Thread Michael Torrie
On 02/01/2012 02:32 PM, Jessie Adan Morris wrote: > I have to give my vote to HP as well. Especially their laser printers. Very > high quality, excellent Linux support, and toner is typically cheaper than > most other manufacturers (in my experience it has been, anyway). HP is hit and miss these

Re: suggestions for all-in-one

2012-02-01 Thread S. Dale Morrey
I've had great success with my Brother All-in-one. It's inkjet but does print, scan, fax plus it can print direct from an SD card. Network configuration is a snap and all of my devices see it over the wireless network. Works on windows, linux & mac thus far, no drivers needed, configuration was

Re: suggestions for all-in-one

2012-02-01 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:25:03 -0700 "Doran L. \"Fozz\" Barton" wrote: > For the best all-around Linux support, I highly recommend HP. They > directly support open source printing/scanning with driver code and > open specs. I concur. When I had a problem with the drivers for my HP printer, I got q

Re: suggestions for all-in-one

2012-02-01 Thread Jessie Adan Morris
On Wednesday, February 01, 2012 14:25:03 Doran L. Fozz Barton wrote: > On 02/01/2012 02:21 PM, Brett Rasmussen wrote: > For the best all-around Linux support, I highly recommend HP. They directly > support open source printing/scanning with driver code and open specs. > > Plus, generally speaking,

Re: suggestions for all-in-one

2012-02-01 Thread Doran L. "Fozz" Barton
On 02/01/2012 02:21 PM, Brett Rasmussen wrote: > Here are my two questions for you guys: > a) Does anyone have any experience with the Brother MFC-7860DW and does > it work well wirelessly w/linux? > b) Does anyone have any experience with any other wireless laser > all-in-one that has worked w

suggestions for all-in-one

2012-02-01 Thread Brett Rasmussen
All, I'm wanting to buy a wireless laser printer-scanner-copier that works with no headaches in linux (currently running ubuntu w/kde). I'm in a new place, and the all-in-one pretty much has to be in a storage closet where I can't run a cable (or at least really, really don't want to), so wireless