[wellylug] Laser printers (fwd)

[Peter Jones]

I have bought a number of second hand HP4s and 5s from RemarkIT on Jervois
Quay.
Real cheap (around $20 +GST each in quantity). If you want a basic
monochrome laser these are pretty hard to beat.
Not a lot of frills, but postscript is available on them. Many of them
include network cards.
Definitely will work with Linux.
Aftermarket tomer cartridges readily available.

Interestingly, some of the new printer cartridges are chipped so they can't
be refilled. 
Peter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Antliff [mailto:david.antliff at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, 31 May 2006 9:40 a.m.
> To: WellyLUG
> Subject: [wellylug] Laser printers (fwd)
> 
> 
> 
> Hi folks, some of you may remember the email below, which I 
> sent about 18 
> months ago. As it turned out, I did not buy a printer at that 
> time. I am 
> now looking to actually buy one, so I was wondering if anything 
> significant has changed in that time? I still have the emails 
> from those 
> who replied to the original, so I'm just after 'updates' - 
> are there any 
> new printers on the market that anyone can recommend? Can you 
> still buy PS 
> printers? What's the Linux support like nowadays?
> 
> I take it colour laser printers are still specialty items?
> 
> My budget could probably extend a little further now, so I'd say I'm 
> looking for something new under $800. Light/medium usage, home-office 
> stuff. Linux support mandatory. Colour not necessary. It 
> doesn't have to 
> be a laser, but I'm not familiar with the state of inkjet 
> these days. The 
> last inkjet I had in 1999 was complete rubbish. I'd also hope to get 
> something relatively cheap to run.
> 
> I'll be planning on network printing (via a Linux host) probably with 
> CUPS? Any better ideas?
> 
> FTR, the original replies recommended the following printers:
> 
> Brother HL-660   HP (PCL) emulation mode
> ancient Lexmark optra R
> Brother 5140
> Kyocera 1010
> Kyocera FS-800
> Lexmark E230
> HP laserjet 1015
> 
> 
> I'm reading over http://linuxprinting.org/ right now...
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> David.
> 
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:42:28 +1300 (NZDT)
> From: David Antliff <dave.antliff at paradise.net.nz>
> To: wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz
> Subject: Laser printers
> 
> 
> Can anyone recommend a B/W laser printer that works well with 
> Linux and isn't 
> too expensive? I've been looking at the Brother HL-5140 but I 
> can't find any 
> linux reviews (nor can I find the linux drivers that are supposedly 
> downloadable from the Brother website). Ideally I'd like a 
> postscript printer 
> but these tend to be expensive (over $1000) and seem to be 
> getting rarer.
> 
> How do the network-enabled ones work with Linux? They still 
> require drivers on 
> the workstation presumably?
> 
> Any suggestions? I have a budget of around $400.
> 
> -- 
> David.
> 
> 
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