On Fri, 2016-01-15 at 10:53 +0000, William Hill wrote:
On 15 Jan 2016, at 10:30, Steve Engledow steve@offend.me.uk wrote:
Printing has long been the bane of my (and I'm sure most people's) existence and several years back, I swore I would never buy another printer.
I’ve got an ancient, ex-skip LaserJet 4 If you can beg, borrow or dumpster-dive something like this I can recommend for linux use. In general, laser is higher up front cost, and toner cartridges are pricy but last years. Something that uses PCL or PS will be easiest to drive. A network connection is nice, too. Bill
Agreed. I have a LJ5M which (IIRC) cost about £30 on eBay years ago, works fine with Linux (& Windows & Mac/OS). The only downside is it's getting a bit small/slow by modern standards and can take a very long time (ca. 10 mins a page) to print stuff, and very occasionally runs out of memory. If I were replacing it, I'd get another, more recent, HP laser s/h on eBay.