Most inexpensive debian friendly laserjet printer? total cost of ownership including laserink?
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From: Terence on 5 May 2008 03:00 2008/5/5 Mitchell Laks <mlaks(a)post.harvard.edu>: > Hi, > > I tend to print out a lot of documentation on the software for projects > that I work on. Therefore I go through alot of laserjet cartidges on my > postscript compatible hp laserjet 1200 printer. > > My latest cartridge just needs to be replaced again. > > I am tired of paying so much money for the new laser ink cartiridges each time. > You may check whether HP do two types of cartridge- for my Color Laserjet 2550 an ordinary cartridge around £50 and a double/triple load cartridge costs about £60- a clear saving. Although I argee it's not cheap....... Terence -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: Jonathan Kaye on 5 May 2008 05:30 Mitchell Laks wrote: > Hi, > > I tend to print out a lot of documentation on the software for projects > that I work on. Therefore I go through alot of laserjet cartidges on my > postscript compatible hp laserjet 1200 printer. > > My latest cartridge just needs to be replaced again. > > I am tired of paying so much money for the new laser ink cartiridges each > time. > > I have read recently a wall street analyst say that > 'consumers are stupid - they buy printers by the cost of hardware > not total cost of ownership'. > > are there any truly cheaper approaches? Can we buy a postscript > laserprinter that is not designed to use proprietary cartridges that we > must buy from the company at inflated prices? > > Also while we are at it, any suggestions on what I can use > in place of gasoline in my car :)? > > Mitchell Hi Mitchell, I live in Girona in the north-east of Spain. It has a population of about 80.000 so it's not too big. There is a shop specialising in refilling printer cartridges at low cost and is environment-friendly as it reutilises your old cartridge. I use a Brother HL-1230 Laser and replacing the cartridge this way does save me money. If such a shop can be found in a small town like Girona, I'm sure there must be a few not too far from you. Maybe this can be at least part of the solution. Cheers, Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: Douglas A. Tutty on 5 May 2008 18:30
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 12:58:25AM -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: > I tend to print out a lot of documentation on the software for > projects that I work on. Therefore I go through alot of laserjet > cartidges on my postscript compatible hp laserjet 1200 printer. > > My latest cartridge just needs to be replaced again. > > I am tired of paying so much money for the new laser ink cartiridges > each time. Do you need laser-quality for anything but the final print? I use a non-ps (ghostscript and a printfilter take care of everything) Epson LQ-2180 24-pin impact printer, wide platten. Good quality wide-platten printers are easier to come by on eBay than narrow-platten. Mine cost $100. New it would cost $1000. Epson told me that not much changes between versions. In fact, the MTBF doesn't change much. The wide-platten ribbons last longer for the same number of characters and don't cost much more than the narrow. I think I paid $24 CDN for the ribbon and its good for about 8,000 pages of plain type. The printer has multiple paper paths: rear push, front push, top-front push-pull, top-bottom pull, single-sheet front, single-sheet top. You can get sheet feeders for the top to use standard copier paper, or you can get a roll paper holder. Changing paper paths for those that support "parking" is as simple as pushing a load/unload button, and moving a lever. The paper will load from the desired path automatically with the next job. There is no paper waste between jobs; the printer has a tear-off button which advances the paper for tear-off and then returns the paper to top-of-form. The printer is capable of 360x360 but gs-gpl + apsfilter only does 360x180. IIRC, gs-esp and foomatic-printfilter will do the 360x360. I find the printer does about 6 pages per minute when doing ps (graphics). Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org |