Ok, I am collecting the replies. And trying to swallow my extreme prejudice against Lexmarks (on a project I worked on the customer bought several thousand of them, because they were cheaper than the HP model we recommended. They were *endlessly* problematic with paper jamming, the one we had for testing took a Lexmark engineer several hours of taking it to pieces, this was admittedly after i lost my temper with it after the 1000th jam and got a bit over-enthusiastic with pulling all the jammed paper out .. :). It seems they were very sensitive to environmental temperature (the room we worked in was very warm). The same customer bought systems with Windows 95 rather than NT, and I know what you all think of Microsoft, but I can tell you Windows NT Client is a *lot* stabler than any of the Windows 9x series...anyway that is another story. I have a budget for this of 1000 Dutch Guldens, that would be I guess about US$500. But here in Holland we pay 19% BTW (BTW = sales tax) on everything of this nature, so dollar/gulden comparisions are not helpful. The only HP Laserjet I can find under that price is a Windows Printer. There seems to be some Canons, are they a possibility ? I shall do some googling when I see the recommendations. I have looked at the Suse h/ware database, but I always find it a bit short on detail, and very equivocal about a lot of things. And you have to be so careful, Suse has support for HP1000's for example. The model I saw, and got excited about was a HP1000W, until I discovered what the "W" stood for. Thanks for any more input :) -- Regards cliff On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 10:18:45PM -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote:
I recently bought a LaserJet 2200D. It was a bit under US$700. It goes like the devil, does PS, and works fine under SuSE Linux 7.2. This is not what I would call cheap, but I figured that you can always get supplies for HP gear. Do not, BTW, buy an OKI Led printer. I don't care what the compatibility list on line says, I threw one out because while the compat list said it worked, not a line ever came out of it. It worked in Windows, of course. When the toner ran out, so did it.
--doug
At 22:30 11/02/2001 +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
Hello, I am trying to find a laser printer that will work without *any* problem on Suse, and speaks Postscript, or rather can be spoken to directly in postscript :) Speed is not that important, cheapness is. I thought I had just found a reasonable priced HP Model, but .. alas .. it is a frigging windows printer (this is even hitting the laser world now).
Cheap, reliable, preferably does not pollute my space with Ozone too much..
Any suggestions .. since I don't live in the US, dollar prices are not much use, but that can be relatavised, I mean if model a is cheaper than model b there,it probably is here.
The only printer that I have a bad feeling about are anything made by Lexmark, but that was due to a traumatic event some years ago. I could probably be talked out of it :)
Thanks for any advice.
-- Regards Cliff