I hate to do this. But here goes... I have an HP 600C Deskjet and I want to replace it. This thing is so old God printed the 10 commandments on it. It prints "ok" but I would like something a wee bit faster and with clearer text. Any suggestions in the $300 range? And no multi-function things. Just a straight printer will do. :) BTW...that muttprint question from earlier seems to have solved itself. I installed some of the missing tex pkgs and whatever it didn't have that made it cranky..it's got now and with muttprint+CUPS...man this is sweet. :) Printing from terminal apps is no longer a pain in the ass..just pipe it through muttprint and it formats everything quite nicely. -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- "I've never been quarantined. But the more I look around the more I think it might not be a bad thing." -JC
I hate to do this. But here goes... I have an HP 600C Deskjet and I want to replace it. This thing is so old God printed the 10 commandments on it. It prints "ok" but I would like something a wee bit faster and with clearer text. Any suggestions in the $300 range? And no multi-function things. Just a straight printer will do. :) BTW...that muttprint question from earlier seems to have solved itself. I installed some of the missing tex pkgs and whatever it didn't have that made it cranky..it's got now and with muttprint+CUPS...man this is sweet. :) Printing from terminal apps is no longer a pain in the ass..just pipe it through muttprint and it formats everything quite nicely. Wow! I'm so sorry to hear that.I have an old HP DeskJet 500,a friend gave me and it is the workhorse,that has NEVER failed me.I love it sure its only B/W.I've had a few Epsons(nice)an hp laser Jet 5L(nice) a lexmark z22(crap, which I bought for my mac but I hate it.)The HP 500 and 600s are the best dinosaurs around.But I'm sentimental. Epson makes some real printers.Easy to set up with SuSE and they work well. If you do decide on an Epson,remember to turn it off when not in use.If you leave it on all the time the jet sprayers(there is a term for this but I can't remember right now)dry up and its either pay a butt load to fix it or buy another.I've had this happen to two of my friends in the past year and a half. They are faster and clearer.I like them. Glad to hear your muttprint is all better,too Hope this helps? Cheers
* rev rob (hd522@earthlink.net) [020302 00:08]: -> ->Wow! I'm so sorry to hear that.I have an old HP DeskJet 500,a friend ->gave me and it is the workhorse,that has NEVER failed me.I love it ->sure its only B/W.I've had a few Epsons(nice)an hp laser Jet 5L(nice) a ->lexmark z22(crap, which I bought for my mac but I hate it.)The HP 500 ->and 600s are the best dinosaurs around.But I'm sentimental. ->Epson makes some real printers.Easy to set up with SuSE and they work ->well. If you do decide on an Epson,remember to turn it off when not in ->use.If you leave it on all the time the jet sprayers(there is a term ->for this but I can't remember right now)dry up and its either pay a butt ->load to fix it or buy another.I've had this happen to two of my friends ->in the past year and a half. They are faster and clearer.I like them. -> Glad to hear your muttprint is all better,too -> Hope this helps? My wife has an 880 Epson attached to her Mac (running OSX) and she loves it. We spent maybe $80 on the thing. I could just get one of these. Anyone else can chime in as well. We have one vote for Epson :) -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- "I've never been quarantined. But the more I look around the more I think it might not be a bad thing." -JC
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