[ale] Printers stink

[Calvin Harrigan]

James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 09:20 -0400, Calvin Harrigan wrote:
> 
>> I take it that you HAVE to do color printing.  If you don't you should 
>> really consider a laser printer. They have come down in price, yes they 
>> cost more up front but it's cheaper per page. Doesn't suffer from head 
>> blockage, dried up ink, and the host of other ink jet issues.  I bought 
>> a Brother on sale at staples about a year ago for $89 on sale.  Toner 
>> cartridges are about $50, prints about 5 reems per cartridge.  It's even 
>> Linux compatible.  ;-)
>>
>> Get the network version of the printer above and have all B&W go that 
>> printer and keep a couple of the HP Inkjets on a print server (linksys 
>> or something) and direct all color prints to those.
> 
> 
> That is the plan. In fact, there is a Linux-friendly Samsung color laser
> printer that I'm eyeballing. 85% of my printing needs are B/W so a a
> cheap printer is just fine. They real use of the HP POS is the scan to
> PDF and email it. That is quite nice. But that product line has been
> dropped (to buggy to continue support on) and even the HP sponsored
> HPLIP project doesn't expect to ever have full support for the 9100
> series. The last firmware fix was 2004.
> 
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As a side note/off topic, I calculated the price per gallon for an 
average Inkjet printer.  Given that an average cartridge contains 6 ml 
(really closer to 3, but I'll give the benefit of the doubt).

6ml = 0.00158503231 gallons
1 gal / 0.00158503231 gallons = 630.902 units of 6 ml
630.902 * $12 = $7570.82

Wow!!!  Liquid Gold?

Calvin...