[ale] looking for a reasonably priced color laser printer

[Jim Kinney]

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.

The printing looks great. It's a cheap inkjet but they have individual tanks
for about $12/color ($18 for black - much larger).

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Michael Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Sent from my HTC Vision (G2), running Gingerbread.
> That is, a phone-like mobile device. :)
> On Jan 18, 2011 9:57 AM, "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Michael Trausch <mike at trausch.us>
> wrote:
> >
> >> The only thing I have against Brother devices is they they rarely use a
> >> standard PDL and thus only have drivers for the architectures Brother
> >> supports.
> >>
> >
> > Yeah but they use "BRScript" which is a rename postscript. They got tired
> of
> > having to pay a license fee for an open technology that's 30+ years old
> just
> > to use the name "postscript".
> >
> >> --
> >> Sent from my HTC Vision (G2), running Gingerbread.
> >> That is, a phone-like mobile device. :)
> >> On Jan 18, 2011 9:39 AM, "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Brother makes a nice color laser that is very linux friendly. I have a
> >> > HL-4070CDW model. It's in cups _and_ Brother has an extensive Linux
> >> drivers
> >> > page here:
> >> >
> http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/index.html
> >> >
> >> > Toners are reasonably priced and drums are replaced separately.
> C=color,
> >> > D=duplex, W=wireless (I only use the wired network connection). It's
> been
> >> > very reliable.
> >> >
> >> > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 7:15 AM, Geoffrey Myers <
> >> lists at serioustechnology.com
> >> >> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> I have a minolta color laser that has just bitten the dust. I'd like
> to
> >> >> replace it with another color laser that is linux friendly.
> Suggestions
> >> >> would be appreciated.
> >> >>
> >> >> --
> >> >> Until later, Geoffrey
> >> >>
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