Re: [Sheflug] Recommendations for a network printer?

[Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> My Brother HL-1450 is still working, but (1) the "drum" light has
> started flashing, (2) it doesn't have much memory (and it would
> cost almost as much as the printer did to upgrade it) so I
> sometimes get error pages instead of fancy graphics, and (3) my
> spouse is encouraging me to buy a network printer so she can print
> from winduhs without difficulty (at least half of her print jobs
> completely disappear before they show up on my machine running CUPS
> & Samba, and trying to debug it is driving me up the wall).

Biggest problem with the new printers is that some of them are GDI 
printers.  Which, in theory, don't work with any version of Linux.  
However, having said that my own printer is a GDI printer which is 
the Samsung ML-1510.  Which is a bit dated now but works fine.

The old HP 4L printers were brilliant but the new ones are not what 
they were.  Bit more plastic than well designed.  HP aren't the same 
since Keith Packard went somewhere else and started to work on Xorg.  

Time to toss a coin ?  My own favourite thing with buying a new 
printer is to get one from somewhere like PC World (Yuk) and to make 
sure to ask that I can bring it back before I give them the money.  
At least that way you can get out of your own silly mistake.



-- 
Richard

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