[Ilugc] Economical SOHO Printer -Should work with Linux.
- From: knura9@xxxxxxxxx (Arun Khan)
- Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:48:41 +0530
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Raja Subramanian
<rajasuperman at gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Arun Khan <knura9 at gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Manikandan B
<manikandan.b2010 at yahoo.com> wrote:
Can someone suggest a good printer (Black and white only) which is
rugged and economical ?
The Canon 2900b and Samsung 1640 work out of the box with the newer
versions of most distros.
Do the Canon/Samsung printers cope well with refilled toners?
I have not tried it yet with the newer ones.
Did not have much luck with my decade old HP 5MP either (about 4 years
back). In retrospect, I think it was mostly due to the operator
(worked out of his home) who refilled it.
The cartridges for the newer models have embedded chips. There are a
couple of franchises (Cartridge World to name one) in Mumbai that
claim compatibility even for the newer cartridges or money back. This
is for b/w though. For my printer cartridges, the cost differential
is about Rs. 400 between refilled and original, so I am guessing they
probably have some OEM alliance with the manufacturers.
Our office HP Laser Jet Color cost Rs 20-25k, but original color toner
is Rs 10k per set. ?The only way to economically operate a printer is to
run it on cheaper 3rd party toner, and unfortunately our printer runs poorly
on refilled toners.
There is one CW [1] store in Chennai, you can give it a try
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http://cartridgeworld.in/storedesc.aspx?storeid=59>
[1] Disclaimer - referenced FWIW and without prejudice. I have no
commercial alliance with CW.
HTH,
-- Arun Khan
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