laser printer for school

[Dave Cramer]

So ironically just the other day I walked by an hp Laserjet 2100
someone had thrown out. Just plugged it in and it prints fine.

Now I have to find a cheap print server

Dave Cramer
VP Software Development
Visible Assets Inc.
www.visibleassets.com



On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Peter King <peter.king-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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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