laser printer for school

[Peter King]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 07:29:00PM -0400, Kevin Cozens wrote:

> On 11-09-19 08:25 AM, Dave Cramer wrote:
> > I'm looking for a smallish laser printer. I have an old laser jet 6p that
> > seems to print forever on a cartridge. Is there anything out there like
> > that ? Smaller, more modern, ie USB ?
> 
> I recently picked up a Samsung ML1865W laser printer that was on sale at my
> local Best Buy. My other choice was an HP P1102W, both of similar size. The 
> Samsung W model was (and still is) on sale, has built-in WiFi, and is less 
> expensive than either the ML1865 (no WiFi) or the HP. The replacement toner 
> cartridges for the Samsung are less expensive than the HP and has better 
> support for Linux than the HP using drivers you can download from the 
> Samsung website.

I bought the HP 1102w, and I can testify that support for Linux isn't quite
where it should be. I have it running with the Foomatic foo2zjs-z2, but the
margins aren't quite right, and it doesn't permit much fine-grained handling.
It works like a charm with OS X, so it isn't the printer. Unfortunately, the
hplip drivers somehow can't cope with this printer. So it's second-rate output
unless you get to the level of fussing with the details of the driver, which
I haven't done yet, and don't really think I should have to do. If the Samsung
is better supported, then don't bother with the HP.

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