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Rob Owens

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May 16, 2013, 12:20:01 PM5/16/13
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I'm trying to buy a black and white laser printer for a family member running Wheezy. Can anybody recommend one that you've purchased recently, which used native cups drivers available in Wheezy, which cost $100US or less?

Thanks

-Rob


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May 16, 2013, 12:50:02 PM5/16/13
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On 5/16/2013 12:08, Rob Owens wrote:
> I'm trying to buy a black and white laser printer for a family member running Wheezy. Can anybody recommend one that you've purchased recently, which used native cups drivers available in Wheezy, which cost $100US or less?
>
> Thanks
>
> -Rob
>
>
Not under $100 but an excellent printer:
http://www.brother.ca/en-CA/printers/1/ProductDetail/hl2270dw/Overview

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May 16, 2013, 12:50:03 PM5/16/13
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Rob Owens wrote:

> I'm trying to buy a black and white laser printer for a family member
> running Wheezy. Can anybody recommend one that you've purchased recently,
> which used native cups drivers available in Wheezy, which cost $100US or
> less?

Brother HL-2132. Cartridges don't last long, but otherwise it's
a great printer for its cost.

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Nick Lidakis

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May 16, 2013, 4:10:01 PM5/16/13
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On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:08:40PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote:
> I'm trying to buy a black and white laser printer for a family member running Wheezy. Can anybody recommend one that you've purchased recently, which used native cups drivers available in Wheezy, which cost $100US or less?

You didn't say if they were using it for home or office, but I'd recommend a
used HP 4000 Laserjet TN. I got my second from eBay from a seller that
reconditions of lease machines; It had a very low page count.

These work out of the box with CUPS, have excellent print quality and is
network ready. They've been on the market a long time and parts are readily
available for very reasonable prices. Though, they are super reliable.

I paid $150 with shipping and the unit looked barely used. These were over
$1000 retail when new.

Nick


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Mark Allums

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May 16, 2013, 7:40:01 PM5/16/13
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> I'm trying to buy a black and white laser printer for a family member
> running Wheezy. Can anybody recommend one that you've purchased
> recently, which used native cups drivers available in Wheezy, which cost
> $100US or less?

HP printers may or may not be high quality (that is subjective), but they usually are well supported in Linux, in part because the drivers are open sourced by HP and freely available. I don't know about sub-$100, but many are sub-$150. Several Brother models are pretty good value for the money as well, although I don't know about driver support.






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Anon 4495

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May 16, 2013, 8:10:01 PM5/16/13
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I have an HP 4050N and it is a very reliable printer, works with every OS I have tried. I got mine for $75 shipped, It had over 200k pages when I got it, but I have had it for about 5 years now with no problems.

Patrick Bartek

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May 16, 2013, 8:20:01 PM5/16/13
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On Thu, 16 May 2013, Rob Owens wrote:

> I'm trying to buy a black and white laser printer for a family member
> running Wheezy. Can anybody recommend one that you've purchased
> recently, which used native cups drivers available in Wheezy, which
> cost $100US or less?


I installed Wheezy 64-bit with just Openbox as the window manager--no
sessions manager, no login manager, etc.--a couple months ago, and I had
absolutely NO problems configuring my 6 or 7 year old Samsung ML-1710.
It's been superceded by a few models since then, all around $100US. I'm sure there will be no problems setting them up as well. Samsung printers are Linux friendly.

B


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Anthony Campbell

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May 17, 2013, 3:10:01 AM5/17/13
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On 16 May 2013, st wrote:
> Rob Owens wrote:
>
> >I'm trying to buy a black and white laser printer for a family member
> >running Wheezy. Can anybody recommend one that you've purchased recently,
> >which used native cups drivers available in Wheezy, which cost $100US or
> >less?
>
> Brother HL-2132. Cartridges don't last long, but otherwise it's
> a great printer for its cost.
>

I've had a Brother HL5240 for a couple of years. It's been good but I
don't know what it would cost in the USA.

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Lisi Reisz

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May 17, 2013, 3:20:01 AM5/17/13
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On Friday 17 May 2013 01:17:04 Patrick Bartek wrote:
> NO problems configuring my 6 or 7 year old Samsung ML-1710.
> It's been superceded by a few models since then, all around $100US.  I'm
> sure there will be no problems setting them up as well.  Samsung printers
> are Linux friendly.

I will echo that. I have installed my ML-1510 several times over the years
when upgrading/building new machines. Install distro -> install CUPS (or
check that CUPS is installed) -> install splix. That's it!

Lisi


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st

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May 17, 2013, 3:40:02 AM5/17/13
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Anthony Campbell wrote:

>>> I'm trying to buy a black and white laser printer for a family member
>>> running Wheezy. Can anybody recommend one that you've purchased recently,
>>> which used native cups drivers available in Wheezy, which cost $100US or
>>> less?
>>
>> Brother HL-2132. Cartridges don't last long, but otherwise it's
>> a great printer for its cost.
>
> I've had a Brother HL5240 for a couple of years. It's been good but I
> don't know what it would cost in the USA.

My HL-2132R cost me ~US$100 here in Siberia, thus fitting the
original request perfectly.

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Ralf Mardorf

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May 17, 2013, 4:00:02 AM5/17/13
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Hi Rob,

better get a cheap second hand business printer, than an expensive home
printer.

http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/usedlasers.html

Regards,
Ralf


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Ralf Mardorf

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On Fri, 2013-05-17 at 09:51 +0200, I wrote:
> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/usedlasers.html

PS: This is the homepage from somebody of the FreeBSD community, so you
can assume that what he recommends should be ok for Debian Linux too.



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Rob Owens

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May 19, 2013, 9:50:01 PM5/19/13
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> On 5/16/2013 12:08, Rob Owens wrote:
> > I'm trying to buy a black and white laser printer for a family member running Wheezy. Can anybody recommend one that you've purchased recently, which used native cups drivers available in Wheezy, which cost $100US or less?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > -Rob

Thanks everyone for the advice. I had never thought of buying a used
"industrial strength" laser printer. When I need a printer, I'll look
into that. This particular printer was for a family member, so I wanted
to stay with something new.

I bought a Brother HL-2240D for $85 at a local shop. Pretty good deal,
I think. Wheezy's Gnome printer config didn't work -- the window just
disappeared at some point in the printer setup. I tried multiple times
and got the same result. I successfully configured the printer using
the cups web interface at http://localhost:631

The printer wasn't listed in the choices, but based on a suggestion on
this site: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1627516.html
I used Generic > PCL 5e Printer > Generic PCL 5e Printer Foomatic/hpijs-pcl5e [en]
for my driver. It seems to be working fine.

-Rob


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Chris Bannister

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May 20, 2013, 9:20:01 AM5/20/13
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[fixing subject for archive/google searches.]

On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 09:44:23PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote:
> Thanks everyone for the advice. I had never thought of buying a used
> "industrial strength" laser printer. When I need a printer, I'll look
> into that. This particular printer was for a family member, so I wanted
> to stay with something new.
>
> I bought a Brother HL-2240D for $85 at a local shop. Pretty good deal,
> I think. Wheezy's Gnome printer config didn't work -- the window just
> disappeared at some point in the printer setup. I tried multiple times
> and got the same result. I successfully configured the printer using
> the cups web interface at http://localhost:631
>
> The printer wasn't listed in the choices, but based on a suggestion on
> this site: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1627516.html
> I used Generic > PCL 5e Printer > Generic PCL 5e Printer Foomatic/hpijs-pcl5e [en]
> for my driver. It seems to be working fine.

Thanks for the write up.

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