On Thursday 11 February 2010 12:46:35 pm Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Thursday, 2010-02-11 at 12:58 -0500, Robert Cunningham wrote:
On 02/11/2010 10:08 AM, lynn wrote:
I use Turboprint as well it supports a lot of Cannon , HP, Brother and Epson printers. For some it even gives a higher resolution than the windows drivers that comes with the printer It is a great program for printing photos. http://www.turboprint.info/
It is indeed a good solution. My previous Canon did not print well with the opensource drivers, I had to use TP. It is worth the small price.
However, now I use a laser color printer (HP cp1515n). It is not cheap, but works out of the box and the final price per photo (not including paper) seems to be good (I still do not know how many pages per toner cartridge). A non networked model should come cheaper, but a network model is sure to have postcript support, which is the safest way to know that it will work in linux. Max resolution is 600 dpi, but the result is really impressive: I think they manage to adjust the per pixel intensity of color, instead of having to add more or less pixels at top intensity at a higher resolution.
And I no longer have to clean heads :-)
I too use a color laser printer (Xerox Phaser 6120) {was $399. on sale from Xerox). Have no tried many color photos because you need to make sure it will take the heat from the fuser. I do use a Glossy Xerox paper, 98 brightness (104 European), 28 LB/bond. Pictures come out as good as photo paper. Toner was expensive (3-color, 1 blk cartridges) until I found a local printer repair shop that is also a Xerox authorized shop. Now my cartridge get refilled as High Capacity instead of buying standard capacity ones. Cost is less than 1/2 Xerox price for standard cartridges. Quality is same since ink shop uses come direct from Xerox and they also replace the counter chip as part of the service at no charge. It also has options of DISK, Additional Memory, Dual-Sided printing and Second paper tray. I only have the memory upgrade, but bought the memory and installed it my self. (memory is from Crucial -(Micron)) I've had it for 3 1/2 years with no problems. Ink is rated at 4500 copies/ high capacity cartridges. Duty cycle is 20,000 copies per month. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org