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Recommendations on a new printer
On Fri, 14 Oct 2016 21:21:23 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote: On Fri, 14 Oct 2016 19:41:03 -0400, Dick wrote: +1 on the Brother laser printer. I have a Brother 2270DW laser that I use as a network printer. It is very linux friendly: both wired and wireless. Best part is that the toner cartridges are the cheapest around, ~$55. I say you can't go wrong with Brother. My Xerox WorkCentre 6015NI uses 4 toner cartridges, CMYK. In April of this year I bought an 8-pack, two of each color, for $49.99. That's an outstandingly good price! Are they always that cheap, or was this a special sale? |
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On Sat, 15 Oct 2016 08:08:11 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote: On Fri, 14 Oct 2016 21:21:23 -0500, Char Jackson wrote: On Fri, 14 Oct 2016 19:41:03 -0400, Dick wrote: +1 on the Brother laser printer. I have a Brother 2270DW laser that I use as a network printer. It is very linux friendly: both wired and wireless. Best part is that the toner cartridges are the cheapest around, ~$55. I say you can't go wrong with Brother. My Xerox WorkCentre 6015NI uses 4 toner cartridges, CMYK. In April of this year I bought an 8-pack, two of each color, for $49.99. That's an outstandingly good price! Are they always that cheap, or was this a special sale? I just checked on Amazon.com. The printer sells for only $259, which sounds very good, but a pack of four cartridges (one of each color) is $333! Were the cartridges you bought perhaps third-party rather than Xerox? |
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In message , Paul
writes: J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: In message , Ken Blake writes: On Fri, 14 Oct 2016 11:02:26 -0500, Mark Lloyd wrote: On 10/14/2016 09:30 AM, Ken Blake wrote: [] I tried refilling my own inkjet cartridges, but it was a mess and a royal pain in the butt. I have tried refilling ink cartridges. It never went well. Same here! For high use (and possibly even other use), I think the only way to use an inkjet is one of the continuous-feed systems. Laser toner cartridges can also be refilled; there are plenty of guides out there on how to do so. However, I've never actually spoken to anyone who has done so, so I don't know how easy/messy/successful it is. There were a few inkjets in the past, you could get a tank system for them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_ink_system This company http://www.continuous-ink-system.co.uk/ seems to do them for a wide range of makes and models (and I'm sure there are plenty of other companies, both here in the UK and elsewhere, unless the printer companies have found some legal way of blocking them). We used to buy refilled toner cartridges at work, and returned the cartridges to the refiller. That wasn't dirt cheap, but it was a bit cheaper. There was no chipping system on the cartridges. Paul Some of the guides I've read involve a somewhat alarming circular iron you heat up, to make a hole in the cartridge to refill them through (and assorted ways of sealing the hole afterwards). Hence my curiosity/interest in hearing from anyone who has actually done it. Cartridges that also include the drum may use a drum that doesn't last as long as the ones that are built into the printer. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf "He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; he who dares not is a slave." - Sir William Drummond Above all things, use your mind. Don't be that bigot, fool, or slave. |
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Recommendations on a new printer
On 10/12/2016 04:12 PM, Farmer wrote:
I am looking to buy a new HP Office Jet Pro anyone have a model recommendation or maybe a different make? Its just for my home office and it has to be wireless I have a HP OfficeJet Pro 8500A that I got from my sister for free. She was throwing it away. The control panel only half worked. I got a replacement on Ebay for $9.00 with free shipping. I noticed a lot of these models for sale used for around $25 to $50 bucks. Its the greatest printer I have ever owned. It does everything and is wireless/USB/Ethernet whatever and works with MACS, PCs, Linux, Iphones, and Android phones. -- A Paradoxial World, for Sure. |
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On Sat, 15 Oct 2016 08:08:11 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote: On Fri, 14 Oct 2016 21:21:23 -0500, Char Jackson wrote: On Fri, 14 Oct 2016 19:41:03 -0400, Dick wrote: +1 on the Brother laser printer. I have a Brother 2270DW laser that I use as a network printer. It is very linux friendly: both wired and wireless. Best part is that the toner cartridges are the cheapest around, ~$55. I say you can't go wrong with Brother. My Xerox WorkCentre 6015NI uses 4 toner cartridges, CMYK. In April of this year I bought an 8-pack, two of each color, for $49.99. That's an outstandingly good price! Are they always that cheap, or was this a special sale? I'm sure the biggest factor is that they aren't Xerox-branded. They came from an outfit (via Amazon) called Speedy Inks. Highly recommended. -- Char Jackson |
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On Sat, 15 Oct 2016 09:26:09 -0400, Wolf K wrote:
On 2016-10-14 22:21, Char Jackson wrote: On Fri, 14 Oct 2016 19:41:03 -0400, Dick wrote: +1 on the Brother laser printer. I have a Brother 2270DW laser that I use as a network printer. It is very linux friendly: both wired and wireless. Best part is that the toner cartridges are the cheapest around, ~$55. I say you can't go wrong with Brother. My Xerox WorkCentre 6015NI uses 4 toner cartridges, CMYK. In April of this year I bought an 8-pack, two of each color, for $49.99. I decide a few years ago that two printers were cheaper than one. I've not regretted it. Cost of ownership is a more important calculation than cost of acquisition. Both are all-in-ones, very handy for copying (the alternative would be scan -- process -- print). Brother DP-7040, b/w laser, using high-yield toner cartridges. Canon Pixma MG5220 5-colour inkjet for colour (excellent). Canon 9000F II scanner (excellent) Around my house, we don't print nearly often enough to keep an ink jet wet and ready, so a laser was the obvious answer. Since we've become accustomed to color prints, since about 1986, it naturally had to be a color laser and not b/w. Fortunately, laser prices have come down remarkably over the years. I bought an Okidata b/w laser in 1991 for about $700. Today, a similar b/w unit would be about $79, but I don't see the point in buying b/w. Color lasers print b/w just fine, when asked to do so. -- Char Jackson |
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On Sat, 15 Oct 2016 08:14:13 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote: On Sat, 15 Oct 2016 08:08:11 -0700, Ken Blake wrote: On Fri, 14 Oct 2016 21:21:23 -0500, Char Jackson wrote: On Fri, 14 Oct 2016 19:41:03 -0400, Dick wrote: +1 on the Brother laser printer. I have a Brother 2270DW laser that I use as a network printer. It is very linux friendly: both wired and wireless. Best part is that the toner cartridges are the cheapest around, ~$55. I say you can't go wrong with Brother. My Xerox WorkCentre 6015NI uses 4 toner cartridges, CMYK. In April of this year I bought an 8-pack, two of each color, for $49.99. That's an outstandingly good price! Are they always that cheap, or was this a special sale? I just checked on Amazon.com. The printer sells for only $259, which sounds very good, but a pack of four cartridges (one of each color) is $333! Were the cartridges you bought perhaps third-party rather than Xerox? Absolutely! I would *never* buy branded toner. Or ink, for that matter, when I had ink jet printers. -- Char Jackson |
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On Sun, 16 Oct 2016 02:34:17 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote: On Sat, 15 Oct 2016 08:14:13 -0700, Ken Blake wrote: On Sat, 15 Oct 2016 08:08:11 -0700, Ken Blake wrote: On Fri, 14 Oct 2016 21:21:23 -0500, Char Jackson wrote: My Xerox WorkCentre 6015NI uses 4 toner cartridges, CMYK. In April of this year I bought an 8-pack, two of each color, for $49.99. That's an outstandingly good price! Are they always that cheap, or was this a special sale? I just checked on Amazon.com. The printer sells for only $259, which sounds very good, but a pack of four cartridges (one of each color) is $333! Were the cartridges you bought perhaps third-party rather than Xerox? Absolutely! I would *never* buy branded toner. Or ink, for that matter, when I had ink jet printers. As I suspected. |
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On Sun, 16 Oct 2016 02:28:03 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote: On Sat, 15 Oct 2016 08:08:11 -0700, Ken Blake wrote: On Fri, 14 Oct 2016 21:21:23 -0500, Char Jackson wrote: On Fri, 14 Oct 2016 19:41:03 -0400, Dick wrote: +1 on the Brother laser printer. I have a Brother 2270DW laser that I use as a network printer. It is very linux friendly: both wired and wireless. Best part is that the toner cartridges are the cheapest around, ~$55. I say you can't go wrong with Brother. My Xerox WorkCentre 6015NI uses 4 toner cartridges, CMYK. In April of this year I bought an 8-pack, two of each color, for $49.99. That's an outstandingly good price! Are they always that cheap, or was this a special sale? I'm sure the biggest factor is that they aren't Xerox-branded. They came from an outfit (via Amazon) called Speedy Inks. Highly recommended. Thanks very much. I'll make a note of the printer model and Speedy Ink Inks to consider if I ever need to replace my Samsung. |
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On 15/10/16 20:22, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
Some of the guides I've read involve a somewhat alarming circular iron you heat up, to make a hole in the cartridge to refill them through (and assorted ways of sealing the hole afterwards). Hence my curiosity/interest in hearing from anyone who has actually done it. Cartridges that also include the drum may use a drum that doesn't last as long as the ones that are built into the printer. I had a small Brother laser printer which worked well for many years and then went south. I replaced it with a similar-sized Samsung. That worked well until the cut-down cartridge it came with (700 vs 1500 pages for a standard cartridge IIRC) started to run out. I had a spare cartridge for the Brother so cut a hole in it and poured some of the toner through a funnel into an access hole in the Samsung cartridge. Although the Samsung cartridge itself wasn't chipped, the printer itself had an onboard page counter chip. But I was able to short-circuit a couple of the pins to reset it. Fortunately, I hadn't updated the Samsung driver which would have prevented the pin short-circuit fix. The "hybrid" cartridge worked very well, and continues to do so, although most of my printing now is of 15 x 10cm photos using an Epson All-in-one inkjet (I have an old Canon Pixma, which still performs beautifully under Win7, but Canon don't support Linux, hence the need to buy a non-Canon inkjet). -- Jeff |
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On 10/16/2016 2:32 AM, Char Jackson wrote:
On Sat, 15 Oct 2016 09:26:09 -0400, Wolf K wrote: On 2016-10-14 22:21, Char Jackson wrote: On Fri, 14 Oct 2016 19:41:03 -0400, Dick wrote: +1 on the Brother laser printer. I have a Brother 2270DW laser that I use as a network printer. It is very linux friendly: both wired and wireless. Best part is that the toner cartridges are the cheapest around, ~$55. I say you can't go wrong with Brother. My Xerox WorkCentre 6015NI uses 4 toner cartridges, CMYK. In April of this year I bought an 8-pack, two of each color, for $49.99. I decide a few years ago that two printers were cheaper than one. I've not regretted it. Cost of ownership is a more important calculation than cost of acquisition. Both are all-in-ones, very handy for copying (the alternative would be scan -- process -- print). Brother DP-7040, b/w laser, using high-yield toner cartridges. Canon Pixma MG5220 5-colour inkjet for colour (excellent). Canon 9000F II scanner (excellent) Around my house, we don't print nearly often enough to keep an ink jet wet and ready, so a laser was the obvious answer. Since we've become accustomed to color prints, since about 1986, it naturally had to be a color laser and not b/w. Fortunately, laser prices have come down remarkably over the years. I bought an Okidata b/w laser in 1991 for about $700. Today, a similar b/w unit would be about $79, but I don't see the point in buying b/w. Color lasers print b/w just fine, when asked to do so. I got tired of paying for SkyHi priced ink about 8 years ago so I bought an Okidata c5150n Color Laser, This has been the best printer investment I ever made. It is not quite Photo quality but very close, I buy New toner carts not remans or refills made by Media Sciences at about $145.00 for a full set of 4, OEM carts are too expensive at $175.00 each, these are 5000 page carts and a set lasts me about 2 years. Never again an Inkjet for me. Rene |
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On 10/12/2016 5:12 PM, Farmer wrote:
I am looking to buy a new HP Office Jet Pro anyone have a model recommendation or maybe a different make? Its just for my home office and it has to be wireless I have a Brother inkjet "all in one". Works great. I have gotten 3 color and one large black ink cartridge for under $14 total from China at Aliexpress.com, with free shipping to the U.S. (LC-101, LC-103). Hard to believe, but the cartridges work perfectly and arrived here in about 2 weeks. I see they have vendors of all kinds of compatible toner also, check the prices. |
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On Sun, 16 Oct 2016 11:14:48 -0400, al wrote:
On 10/12/2016 5:12 PM, Farmer wrote: I am looking to buy a new HP Office Jet Pro anyone have a model recommendation or maybe a different make? Its just for my home office and it has to be wireless I have a Brother inkjet "all in one". Works great. I have gotten 3 color and one large black ink cartridge for under $14 total from China at Aliexpress.com, with free shipping to the U.S. (LC-101, LC-103). Hard to believe, but the cartridges work perfectly and arrived here in about 2 weeks. I see they have vendors of all kinds of compatible toner also, check the prices. Same here, a Brother MFC-J450DW, about 2 years old. Works GREAT, way better on ink than I expected or got from my Canons and Epsons previously, AND the non-branded from Amazon are substantially cheaper, and have worked just fine. A set of 4 each of 3 colors ran less than $18. 3 pack of black ran half that. And those are the high capacity versions. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus |
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On Fri, 14 Oct 2016 19:41:03 -0400, Dick wrote:
+1 on the Brother laser printer. I have a Brother 2270DW laser that I use as a network printer. It is very linux friendly: both wired and wireless. Best part is that the toner cartridges are the cheapest around, ~$55. I say you can't go wrong with Brother. I also have a 2270DW, it is the best printer that I have ever had. Works flawlessly with my Centos linux, windows, the entire thing. I buy off- brand refills/drums from Amazon, and have never had one problem. "What do you mean there's no movie?" |
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