Hi Guys,
Can anyone recommend a Linux friendly cheap colour inkjet printer? It also key to work with Windows.
Take Care,
Jamie
Best Regards,
Jamie French
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On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 10:46:31AM +0000, jamie.french@talk21.com wrote:
Can anyone recommend a Linux friendly cheap colour inkjet printer? It also key to work with Windows.
Epson kit is quite well supported and gives pretty output, http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/p_Supported_Printers.php3 is a good place to look for supported printers. Epson did used to give specs to developers to make drivers and I assume this is still the case which is why I have purchased Epson imaging kit in the past and will continue to do so (assuming it remains supported)
I won't recommend a specific printer as you did not define "cheap" running costs will come into it also, although I will recommend that you *DO NOT* buy a lexmark as they break lots and have bad support IME.
Adam
jamie.french@talk21.com jamie.french@talk21.com wrote:
Can anyone recommend a Linux friendly cheap colour inkjet printer?
On the Linux-friendly bit, http://www.linuxprinting.org/ is very useful. Cheap and colour inkjet may not be compatible. The ink is more expensive than champagne...
On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 10:58:26 -0000 MJ Ray markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
Cheap and colour inkjet may not be compatible. The ink is more expensive than champagne...
Agreed, but it doesn't taste half so nice! :o)
Keith
On Thursday 10 Jul 2003 1:31 am, Keith Watson wrote:
On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 10:58:26 -0000
MJ Ray markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
Cheap and colour inkjet may not be compatible. The ink is more expensive than champagne...
Agreed, but it doesn't taste half so nice! :o)
Keith
Funny that I tried printing with Moet et Chandon and the printer started sluring the words. :-)
Well I used to be a Canon man, but their more recent models don't seem to be incredibly well supported under our favourite OS
Epson printers are generally well supported. Most of the Stylus Colour and Photo printers work to varying degrees.
Personally I am always dubious of the extended cleaning cycle every Epson printer I have approached seems to want to do before every print. Seems like a deliberate waste of ink to me.
Actually Jamie, if you want really cheap then I have a HP deskjet 640c (works under Linux) with an unknown amount of ink in it's tanks. Make me a silly offer and it's probably yours (I have a mono Laser for Docs and I need the money to go towards a Dye-Sub for Photo work).
Mind you given the dubious state of Inkjet refill prices, you can probably buy a printer for the price of the refills for mine. :o)
On Tuesday 08 July 2003 10:46, jamie.french@talk21.com wrote:
Hi Guys,
Can anyone recommend a Linux friendly cheap colour inkjet printer? It also key to work with Windows.
jamie.french@talk21.com jamie.french@talk21.com wrote:
Hi Guys,
Can anyone recommend a Linux friendly cheap colour inkjet printer? It also key to work with Windows.
Hrm - I've been reasonably pleased with the Epson 42UX that we've got at work (attached to my linux workstation, shared to the rest of the office via IPP, cups rocks :)
The gimp print drivers for this appear to run well, and mtink is very useful for checking the status of the ink cartridges, cleaning heads, etc etc.
It is, however, a USB printer, but that shouldn't be a problem, should it? ;)
Brett.
Brett Parker wrote:
Hrm - I've been reasonably pleased with the Epson 42UX that we've got at work (attached to my linux workstation, shared to the rest of the office via IPP, cups rocks :)
Are you talking about the Epson Stylus C42UX? I don't have experience of running it under Linux but I do under windows and that printer is horrid compared to the quality I get from my old HP Deskjet 710C.
Is it the same printer? I've tried to set it up under Linux using the KDE Printing manager with the settings below:
============================== General Type: SMB shared printer (Windows) Name: Epson Location: Bubble Description: EPSON Stylus C42UX
Backend URI: smb://MSHOME/BUBBLE/EPSON
Driver Type: DB driver Manufacturer: EPSON Model: Stylus C42UX Description: EPSON Stylus C42UX, CUPS+Gimp-Print v4.2.5 [English] ==============================
I've yet to get anything to print in Linux, anyone have any advice on this?
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Ben Francis wrote:
Brett Parker wrote:
Hrm - I've been reasonably pleased with the Epson 42UX that we've got at work (attached to my linux workstation, shared to the rest of the office via IPP, cups rocks :)
Are you talking about the Epson Stylus C42UX? I don't have experience of running it under Linux but I do under windows and that printer is horrid compared to the quality I get from my old HP Deskjet 710C.
I'd go along with that - Epson Stylus printers seem to me to be slow, ugly, noisy, thirsty and with average print quality. I've vowed to never buy another Epson (not least because of their deceptive trading practices with programmed ink cartridges).
Andrew.
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 11:48:33PM +0200, Ben Francis wrote:
Brett Parker wrote:
Hrm - I've been reasonably pleased with the Epson 42UX that we've got at work (attached to my linux workstation, shared to the rest of the office via IPP, cups rocks :)
Are you talking about the Epson Stylus C42UX? I don't have experience of running it under Linux but I do under windows and that printer is horrid compared to the quality I get from my old HP Deskjet 710C.
Yes, I was sitting at home, printer was sitting at work, memory like a particularly stoned goldfish most of the time ;)
Is it the same printer? I've tried to set it up under Linux using the KDE Printing manager with the settings below:
*snip*
Not a clue using the KDE printer mangler, have had it working using cups + gimp-print, took all of 10 mins to set up, which was nice. Quality appears reasonable, and the only real complaint I have with it is that it appears to eat black ink rather quickly. We've had some decent quality prints out of it over the last few months, too.
Looks like you're wanting to set it up over samba, what you had there should have worked, as long as the printer is shared correctly etc etc.
Brett.
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 11:48:33PM +0200, Ben Francis wrote:
Are you talking about the Epson Stylus C42UX? I don't have experience of running it under Linux but I do under windows and that printer is horrid compared to the quality I get from my old HP Deskjet 710C.
Hmmm, it is apparently only 35 quid from online retailers, that probably explains the quality.... (the C42UX)
Adam
On Thursday 10 July 2003 15:49, Adam Bower wrote:
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 11:48:33PM +0200, Ben Francis wrote:
Are you talking about the Epson Stylus C42UX? I don't have experience of running it under Linux but I do under windows and that printer is horrid compared to the quality I get from my old HP Deskjet 710C.
Hmmm, it is apparently only 35 quid from online retailers, that probably explains the quality.... (the C42UX)
Well it's very likely that it is sold by Epson at cost or even small loss.
This is the thing that bugs me about InkJet Printers (especially the lower end ones) The Gillette business model.
That's why every time I see those Epson printers doing their cleaning cycle, shooting that ever so expensive ink into little pads below the head, I have to wonder.
From: Wayne Stallwood Thursday, July 10, 2003 9:00 PM
On Thursday 10 July 2003 15:49, Adam Bower wrote:
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 11:48:33PM +0200, Ben Francis wrote:
Are you talking about the Epson Stylus C42UX? I don't have experience of running it under Linux but I do under windows and that printer is horrid compared to the quality I get from my old HP Deskjet 710C.
Hmmm, it is apparently only 35 quid from online retailers, that probably explains the quality.... (the C42UX)
Well it's very likely that it is sold by Epson at cost or even small loss.
This is the thing that bugs me about InkJet Printers (especially the lower end ones) The Gillette business model.
That's why every time I see those Epson printers doing their cleaning cycle, shooting that ever so expensive ink into little pads below the head, I have to wonder.
I have a Canon S400, which works beautifully with CUPS + Gimp Print, but I must admit to sharing Wayne's irritation about the "cleaning cycle" it goes through at the beginning and end of just about anything it does. Having said that the cartridges seem to last pretty well.
Oh and a colleague here at work recommended http://www.choicestationery.com as a good source of alternative non-manufacturer cartridges. I haven't used them myself but he seems to think quite highly of them.
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