On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 16:05 -0700, Preston Crawford wrote:
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 18:57 -0400, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 15:44 -0700, Preston Crawford wrote:
Can this be done somewhere? Our Deskjet 990cxi is acting weird lately. It's so good and has been so trusty (and I don't know anything cheap and comparable that works with Linux out of the box) that I'm hesitant to just throw it away and get a new printer. However, I want it to work correctly. Do you know where you can (if you can) get something like this worked on these days?
Cheap ink jet printers have become a throwaway commodity. It costs far more to get them repaired then to buy a new one.
That's what I was afraid I'd hear. This thing has been so trusty for 5 years. Plus I hate just throwing stuff away. And what would be the equivalent of it that would work well with Linux?
As another poster said you can try to clean it yourself. Barring that what kind of documents are being printed? If you print mostly black text I would suggest a laser for that plus another cheap ink jet for color. Besides printing with a laser is much cheaper per page than an ink jet. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge