Good option for occasional printing
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. However, I have a new job now which is based from my home and I no longer have the convenience of the office printer for the occasional (a couple of times a month) return label or plane ticket. What I'm looking for is something that will solve my needs for a reasonable price. The last time I bought a printer, it cost me £30 and included some ink that ran out after around 15 pages of black and white. Replacement ink cost me around £45. I've got two short words for that. Does anyone have any recommendations? I'll only need B&W, A4, and have no need for high resolution print. Cheers, Steve
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
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. -- Today is Setting Orange, the 15th day of Chaos in the YOLD 3182 I don't have an attitude problem. If you have a problem with my attitude, that's your problem.
On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 10:53:29AM +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.
Agreed, I have a (not quite as old as a LaserJet 4) HP LaserJet 1320 which has served me well for many years. There are still lots of them in use so cartridges etc. are easy to come by. Mine has a duplexer which is handy, you need a 1320n for a network connection. -- Chris Green
On 15/01/16 10:30, Steve Engledow 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.
However, I have a new job now which is based from my home and I no longer have the convenience of the office printer for the occasional (a couple of times a month) return label or plane ticket.
What I'm looking for is something that will solve my needs for a reasonable price. The last time I bought a printer, it cost me £30 and included some ink that ran out after around 15 pages of black and white. Replacement ink cost me around £45. I've got two short words for that.
Does anyone have any recommendations? I'll only need B&W, A4, and have no need for high resolution print.
Cheers, Steve
I'd always go for an HP laser printer since they’re Linux friendly. Mine's a P1102 (not expensive) and I can get recycled cartridges for it. (I wouldn’t pay full HP prices either!) Toner tends to last longer than inkjet in any case (ime.) Plus you can gently shake the cartridge if it looks like it might be running out. (It may not be.) Bev.
I have a Samsung SL-M2026 £40 at Amazon an extra £20 gets you the (W) wireless version that I use. Works with CUPS out of the box and a £20 non OEM toner lasts around 1500 pages. Cheap and doesn't dry out like an inkjet. Cheers, BJ On 15 January 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.
However, I have a new job now which is based from my home and I no longer have the convenience of the office printer for the occasional (a couple of times a month) return label or plane ticket.
What I'm looking for is something that will solve my needs for a reasonable price. The last time I bought a printer, it cost me £30 and included some ink that ran out after around 15 pages of black and white. Replacement ink cost me around £45. I've got two short words for that.
Does anyone have any recommendations? I'll only need B&W, A4, and have no need for high resolution print.
Cheers, Steve
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On 15/01, John Woodard wrote:
I have a Samsung SL-M2026 £40 at Amazon an extra £20 gets you the (W) wireless version that I use. Works with CUPS out of the box and a £20 non OEM toner lasts around 1500 pages. Cheap and doesn't dry out like an inkjet.
This looks like a good option. Thanks for all the advice everyone. Sounds like a cheap laser is a much better idea than buying another inkjet that I'll just swear at, kick, and ignore when it wants new ink. Steve
Glad to help. I forgot to add, it has a small footprint and prints quite quickly. Cheers, BJ On 15 January 2016 at 11:20, Steve Engledow <steve@offend.me.uk> wrote:
On 15/01, John Woodard wrote:
I have a Samsung SL-M2026 £40 at Amazon an extra £20 gets you the (W) wireless version that I use. Works with CUPS out of the box and a £20 non OEM toner lasts around 1500 pages. Cheap and doesn't dry out like an inkjet.
This looks like a good option. Thanks for all the advice everyone. Sounds like a cheap laser is a much better idea than buying another inkjet that I'll just swear at, kick, and ignore when it wants new ink.
Steve
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On 15/01/16 10:30, Steve Engledow 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.
However, I have a new job now which is based from my home and I no longer have the convenience of the office printer for the occasional (a couple of times a month) return label or plane ticket.
What I'm looking for is something that will solve my needs for a reasonable price. The last time I bought a printer, it cost me £30 and included some ink that ran out after around 15 pages of black and white. Replacement ink cost me around £45. I've got two short words for that.
Does anyone have any recommendations? I'll only need B&W, A4, and have no need for high resolution print.
Cheers, Steve
I use a Brother HL 2130 laser printer, works fine with linux and was around £40 when new. Replacement cartridges are less than a tenner but I am still using the one that came with it 2 years on. I think the model I have is now discontinued but the HL 1112 is available for around £40 (Tesco.com have it on offer for £39) and promises to be Linux friendly.
On 15/01/16 10:30, Steve Engledow wrote:
Does anyone have any recommendations? I'll only need B&W, A4, and have no need for high resolution print.
Put a wanted ad on Freegle for one. There is hardly a week goes by without a laser printer being offered to a good home. I have 3 x HP colour Laserjet 2605 which I got for free over the last few years by watching Freegle (was Freecycle). All described as for spares or repair. All only needed a cleaning and new cartridges. I'm still using the 1st set of toners (OK about 100quid) that I bought over 3 years ago which have done over 2500 pages (that's a box full) so far. Nev
On 15/01/16 10:30, Steve Engledow 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.
However, I have a new job now which is based from my home and I no longer have the convenience of the office printer for the occasional (a couple of times a month) return label or plane ticket.
What I'm looking for is something that will solve my needs for a reasonable price. The last time I bought a printer, it cost me £30 and included some ink that ran out after around 15 pages of black and white. Replacement ink cost me around £45. I've got two short words for that.
Does anyone have any recommendations? I'll only need B&W, A4, and have no need for high resolution print.
IKWYM. I bought a HP monochrome laser printer in Argos for around a ton. This has sorted my dead-ink reservoir prombles. You *can* get them a lot cheaper there, but beware! Check whether you can get the refill toner cartridges before you buy. I made a list of all the monochrome laser printers on offer, and the HP was the only one my local fiendly pootershop could source. -- Tony http://www.girolle.co.uk/
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