[GTALUG] HP printers [Request for printer recommendations]

o1bigtenor o1bigtenor at gmail.com
Mon Jul 6 16:09:51 UTC 2015


On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Lennart Sorensen <
lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 11:41:35AM -0400, Malgosia Askanas wrote:
> > My past experience with HP printers has been that they print
> > beautifully but the mechanicals crap out after a very short time,
> > after which one has to feed/unfeed the paper by hand.  I've spent
> > untold hours feeding my HP printers, and am uneager to repeat the
> > experience.  But perhaps they have become better in recent years?
>
> The massive HP printer/scanner/copier we had in the office a few years
> ago was a disaster.  The thing it did best was paper jams.  Dozens of
> paper jams every day.
>
> The canon that replaced it has almost never had a paper jam.
>
> Of course those are not models you would use at home, but given they
> do postscript and IPP network printing, they work great with linux
> (for printing, scanning is a different story).
>
> So, I'll bite, what do you use for scanning?

Dee
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