Rick Meyerhoff wrote: > I don't know what they cost these days but I've been pretty happy with > my HP LaserJet 1100. I bought it as a refurb about 5 years ago and it's > always worked fine under Linux. A year or so ago it started pulling in > more than one sheet of paper though but I have not taken it in for > adjustment. > > Justin Kremer wrote: > >> Well, I've had it with cheap little inkjet printers. They all suck. >> I've had my newest one for 3 or 4 months now and it's already >> developing issues. I don't even want to get it fixed, I just want to >> throw it off my balcony! I have a feeling that I'll get more >> enjoyment out of seeing it break into pieces than I'll get use out of >> it once it's fixed. *whew* Anyway... >> Can anyone make a recommendation, from experience, of a good Laser >> printer that'll work well under linux, and that I can probably find >> used for a reasonable price? I'd prefer under $100, so I'm not >> looking for new and fancy, just something that'll print several ppm, >> not jam on me too often, and overall not suck. Any ideas of where to >> find one, aside from ebay? >> TIA >> > I highly recommend HP lasers. They are great. But I want to offer one word of caution. Find a printer you want, then do some research on it before handing over the cash. I bought a HP Laserjet 1000 a few years back. It was an HP, a laser, and cheap. I thought I couldn't go wrong. But it turns out that HP outsourced the development and manufacturing of this model, and that resulted in a rather nice looking paperweight that sometimes, when the stars aligned just right, would act like a printer. If I would have spent even 10 minutes searching google I would have found lots of wonderful information that would have saved me a lot of hassle and money. Here's a few lines from http://www.linuxprinting.org: The printer has only 1 MB of RAM and 32 kb (!) of ROM and is USB only. The firmware of the printer must be uploaded after turning it on. The printer is working fine now, but I've had to live through 3 years of torment to get it that way. The moral of the story is to check around after you find a good buy and make sure that there are no hidden "features" in that model that will cause you grief. As I said above, I highly recommend HP lasers, especially the older parallel port ones. I installed about 8 of them for family and friends about 5-8 years ago, (4Ls, 5Ls, and a 6L iirc) they are _ALL_ still working great. My $0.02 Chris Frederick _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list