[cups] New Printer Recommendation

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 20 March 2018 12:15:10 Axel Braun wrote:

> > Gesendet: Dienstag, 20. März 2018 um 11:37 Uhr
> > Von: "Johannes Meixner" <jsmeix at suse.de>
> > An: "The CUPS user discussion list." <cups at cups.org>
> > Betreff: Re: [cups] New Printer Recommendation
> >
> > On Mar 20 09:43 Narcis Garcia wrote (excerpt):
> > > I won't recommend HP, because opensource HPLIP does not
> > > include required firmware by devices. This means when HP stops
> > > serving firmware downloads, their machines will not be able
> > > to be installed anymore.
>
> HP did some time ago a silent, uncommunicated and unaligned (with the
> owners of the devices) firmware upgrades to their printers, causing
> them to fail with inks/toners from 3rd party suppliers.
>
> As they are breaking users privacy, they are not acceptable as
> supplier at all. I would not want to buy their products any longer.
> They are on my personal blacklist.
>
> [snip}
>
> > FYI:
> > We have at home a reasonably priced real PostScript color
> > laser printer which "just works" perfectly for our needs.
> > Personally I prefer a laser printer over an inkjet because
> > in the past I had issues with dried inks and/or nozzles
> > (if it does not work it is me who must work on it ;-)
>
> Same here, I have already binned ink printers from various
> manufacturers as the ink heads were completely dryed out. Tried
> different things, but could not get them to work again.
>
> I' currently using a Brother MFC 9342 CDW, which does the job for the
> office work, and runs well under Linux
>
> For photo printout I prefer a professional lab, anyway.
I've not been able to do with a printer, decent color prints since my 
Epson C82 died.

Or go back to film and chemistry, which I did for nearly 40 years, but 
now I'd have to find sources for all of it all over again. PITA.
>
> Best
> Axel
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