[whimsy] Linux-compatable printer that won't gouge me on ink?

[john.moniz-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org]

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> Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:23:41 -0500
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: [whimsy] Linux-compatable printer that won't gouge me on ink?
> From: lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
>
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> I would stay away from xero'x solid ink printers (having used one).
> They work really really well, they have amazing print quality, but at
> least on the one I dealt with, a power failure costs you about $5 in
> wasted ink. They simply are not to be turned off. I hope the new ones
> have fixed this, because it was completely insane. If you print 50000
> pages a month (which they can easily do), then the occational power
> failure is irrelevant. If you print 2000 pages a month, you start
> to care. That was the only flaw (unless having printouts that can be
> rubbed off the page if you try hard enough counts as a flaw. The raised
> look of the print is kind of neat) it had.
> --
> Len Sorensen
> --
By solid ink printers, do you mean the Xerox phaser printers?
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