I have a Samsung CLP-315, it is a pretty low cost device w/o duplex feature but it handles Windows XP, Vista, 7, Ubuntu 10.10, and OSX 10 (Tiger, Leopard & Snow Leopard) without difficulty. Bought it just over a year ago at OD during after Thanksgiving sale for ~ $85 if memory serves. Recently bought a new black toner cartridge on NewEgg for ~ $45 delivered, I think.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
They have a few clunkers. If it's on the brother linux page, it works great or at least well enough for daily use. I got a cheap multi-function brother system for my daughter and with a few driver installs from that site she had a working multi-page sheet-feed scanner into XSane for convert into PDF or jpg, tiff, png. OpenOffice can do a scan into easily. The only thing it didn't do that we wanted was determine page count on the fly. Apparently the process make a multi-page pdf in one operation instead of multiple images, count, then make pdf.<br>
<br>The printing looks great. It's a cheap inkjet but they have individual tanks for about $12/color ($18 for black - much larger). <br><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Michael Trausch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us" target="_blank">mike@trausch.us</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><p>Maybe they've changed. Last I has any experience with them it was difficult as hell to get one to work right on i386, and not possible at all for PowerPC.</p>
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Sent from my HTC Vision (G2), running Gingerbread.<br>
That is, a phone-like mobile device. :)</p>
</div><div><div></div><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 18, 2011 9:57 AM, "Jim Kinney" <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Michael Trausch <<a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us" target="_blank">mike@trausch.us</a>> wrote:<br>
> <br>>> The only thing I have against Brother devices is they they rarely use a<br>>> standard PDL and thus only have drivers for the architectures Brother<br>>> supports.<br>>><br>> <br>> Yeah but they use "BRScript" which is a rename postscript. They got tired of<br>
> having to pay a license fee for an open technology that's 30+ years old just<br>> to use the name "postscript".<br>> <br>>> --<br>>> Sent from my HTC Vision (G2), running Gingerbread.<br>
>> That is, a phone-like mobile device. :)<br>>> On Jan 18, 2011 9:39 AM, "Jim Kinney" <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>>> > Brother makes a nice color laser that is very linux friendly. I have a<br>
>> > HL-4070CDW model. It's in cups _and_ Brother has an extensive Linux<br>>> drivers<br>>> > page here:<br>>> > <a href="http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/index.html" target="_blank">http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/index.html</a><br>
>> ><br>>> > Toners are reasonably priced and drums are replaced separately. C=color,<br>>> > D=duplex, W=wireless (I only use the wired network connection). It's been<br>>> > very reliable.<br>
>> ><br>>> > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 7:15 AM, Geoffrey Myers <<br>>> <a href="mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com" target="_blank">lists@serioustechnology.com</a><br>>> >> wrote:<br>
>> ><br>
>> >> I have a minolta color laser that has just bitten the dust. I'd like to<br>>> >> replace it with another color laser that is linux friendly. Suggestions<br>>> >> would be appreciated.<br>
>> >><br>>> >> --<br>>> >> Until later, Geoffrey<br>>> >><br>>> >> "I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent<br>>> >> the government from wasting the labors of the people under<br>
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>> >><br>>> ><br>>> ><br>>> ><br>>> > --<br>>> > --<br>>> > James P. Kinney III<br>>> > I would rather stumble along in freedom than walk effortlessly in chains.<br>
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> I would rather stumble along in freedom than walk effortlessly in chains.<br></div>
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