Re: [Hampshire] Laser printers ?

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Author: Tony Whitmore
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Laser printers ?
Russell Gadd wrote:
> I just bought a new colour cartridge for my HP Deskjet and then saw someone
> in a discussion group say he'd had his laser printer a long time and buys
> new toner once every few years. This set me thinking whether I should switch
> to using a black and white laser as 99.9% of my printing is black - my
> expensive colour cartridges usually dry up rather than run out.
>
> Does anyone have any experience / recommendation for a laser printer for
> home use?
>
> I usually go through a box of 2500 A4 sheets around every 2-3 years.


This page on the wiki has some useful info.

http://hantslug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LinuxHints/BudgetLaserPrinter

Based on recommendations from this list I got a Samsung ML-2010R which
has been great and works with Ubuntu (and probably other distros)
straight out of the box.

Cheers,

Tony