On Fri, 2020-01-10 at 20:26 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > On Thu, 2020-01-09 at 16:05 -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > What would be a good low-volume, cheap-to-use/maintain home printer > > for use with Fedora 31 and beyond? > > You should probably say what kind of things are important to you. > Colour, printing photos, or just documents... > > I use a second-hand Hewlett Packard laser printer. The older ones are > built like a tank, and last forever. > > Inkjet's can be a problem with low-volume printing, the ink can dry out > or gunk up between use (depends on how little you print), but even if > you use it often enough to avoid that, they waste much of their tiny > amount of expensive ink during their cleaning routine. Laser toner is > much more cost effective than ink. > > About the only cost effective inkjets are the ones with the large > outboard ink tanks, with continuous feed tubes to the head. Their > large refill bottles are about the only ones that are not a monumental > rip off, and you only have to top up the tanks that are actually low on > ink. > > But you still have to contend with the clogged heads that plague > inkjets. Remember that issue's made worse with cheap and nasty paper.
I agree with all the above. I have a cheap Brother all-in-one that's worked for the past 5 years and costs me under £10 for a replacement toner cartridge that will do 500-1000 sheets (third party via Amazon). Coincidentally, I read an article today saying that HP may be considering moving away from the "razor blade" model for inkjets (i.e. cheap printers and expensive ink) because it's no longer good business - people are printing things like tickets and vouchers much less than they used to because everything's on their phones - so we may see inkjet printer prices going up. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
