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Thanks. Well, my situation - officially my wife and I have retired from our consulting business. Practically we will continue to handle dribbles of client issues for several years and do a few hours of work. And we have to do taxes. <BR>
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We now have a collection of 6 printers in the house, including 1 all-in-one, NONE of which work at present. (all have mysterious hardware issues.) To replace the color toner cartridges in the Dell 3100-cn and the drum which it just decided needed replacing is about $380. And then it might, or might not, actually print. <BR>
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We figure on needing to print perhaps 300-500 pages a year for the next 5 years. Thus a single all-in-one which does good color printing seems to make the most sense. With the new larger ink capacity in the below units they both seem like they would provide 5-10 years of ink. The Brother is half the cost of the Epson and provides 1/4 of the ink. We don't much care about speed. <BR>
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Buying another laser seems like an unnecessary expense at this point. <BR>
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On Wed, 2017-01-25 at 01:11 -0500, Solomon Peachy wrote:
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On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 09:20:33PM -0500, Neal Rhodes wrote:
> We are looking at either an Epson ET-4550 eco-tank printer or a Brother
> MFC-J5830DW .
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> My recollection is that the Brother drivers installed in Centos 6
> without drama. It looks like the Epson has a generic driver for
> linux.
Brother lasers are drama-free. They Just Work. Epsons are a little
more complicated though.
I'd not consider an inkjet and a laser to be in the same class; what do
you intend to use this printer for?
- Solomon
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