Date: 4 Dec 2010 17:25:34 -0000 From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au Subject: Re: printer recommendations? Message-ID: <20101204172534.1258.qmail@joyce.lan> In-Reply-To: <4CFA4AB7.7030900@herveybayaustralia.com.au>
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>> My printer is a sturdy old Lexmark Optra T610. CUPS has a driver, >> which does duplex, N-up, and so forth. Each toner cartridge is good >> for over 10K pages, so I buy one about every two years, and I can >> usually find one for $100, making the per page cost very low. >Lexmarks are very badly designed (but very slowly getting better >ergonomically), expensive to run, and crap themselves with generic >toner. ... So, just to be clear, you're telling me that I am imagining the fact that my printer has worked reliably for ten years? I can believe that Lexmark has made bad printers, but if you can still find an Optra T, they're great. R's, John
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