[ale] Yet ANOTHER reason to love Linux

[Geoffrey Myers]

Joshua Kite wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com 
> <mailto:ale at pcartwright.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 01/17/2011 07:48 PM, Joshua Kite wrote:
>      > My color laser printer died, so today was the day I picked out a
>      > replacement.  I settled on an HP Officejet Pro 8000.
> 
>         but, it's not a laser... you went back to inkjet?
>         I was looking at that one to replace my 5610 that is getting a
>         little
>         old.. Right now the 5610 is shared resource from Debian, but my
>         wifes
>         Vi$ta laptop has issues with it not printing all the time.. I
>         usually
>         leave it turned off, and her print jobs don't always go through.
> 
> 
> The laser that just died was so old that I couldn't get the drivers to 
> install on teh Vi$ta machine, despite the fact that it was a networked 
> printer.  So I had to create a printer share off my server to get it to 
> work.  Towards the end, though, I had to reinstall the printer every 
> time we wanted to print off the laptop.  I prefer laser because the 
> toner is cheaper and doesn't dry out, but Fry's in Duluth didn't have 
> either of the inexpensive models I was considering.  I figure this 
> printer will either be great or terrible and either way it's probably my 
> last inkjet.
> 
> If I want laser I can always use the Laserjet 5P.  The only problem is 
> finding a machine with a parallel port on it.

You can still buy devices that convert a parallel printer into a 
wireless printer.

> 
> Josh Kite
> 
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Until later, Geoffrey

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