<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>If HP brands would be under consideration, I just got an ad</div><div>email from Delta Computers with a page of (mostly) HP printers</div><div>on OFF LEASE, many of them color, in the $100 to $200 price</div><div>range.</div><div><br></div><div>Their email is all jpegs or I would have just forwarded it.</div><div>email me private [subject Delta Printers] if you want me to</div><div>foward you a copy of the advert.</div><div><br></div>peace<div>aaron</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 2011/01/18, at 10:40 , Jim Kinney wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">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><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">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> <div class="im"><p>--<br> Sent from my HTC Vision (G2), running Gingerbread.<br> That is, a phone-like mobile device. :)</p> </div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><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> >> >> the pretense of taking care of them."<br>>> >> - Thomas Jefferson<br>>> >> _______________________________________________<br>>> >> Ale mailing list<br>>> >> <a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org" target="_blank">Ale@ale.org</a><br> >> >> <a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale" target="_blank">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br>>> >> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br>>> >> <a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo" target="_blank">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br> >> >><br>>> ><br>>> ><br>>> ><br>>> > --<br>>> > --<br>>> > James P. Kinney III<br>>> > I would rather stumble along in freedom than walk effortlessly in chains.<br> >><br>>> _______________________________________________<br>>> Ale mailing list<br>>> <a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org" target="_blank">Ale@ale.org</a><br>>> <a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale" target="_blank">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br> >> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br>>> <a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo" target="_blank">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br>>><br>>><br>> <br>> <br>> -- <br> > -- <br>> James P. Kinney III<br> > I would rather stumble along in freedom than walk effortlessly in chains.<br></div> </div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br> Ale mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org">Ale@ale.org</a><br> <a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale" target="_blank">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br> <a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo" target="_blank">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br> <br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>-- <br>James P. Kinney III<br>I would rather stumble along in freedom than walk effortlessly in chains.<br><br><br> _______________________________________________<br>Ale mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org">Ale@ale.org</a><br>http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale<br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br>http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>