Reliable network printing

[christoph at linuxsoup.com (Christoph)]

To be honest, I never considered Brother printers.  I had lumped them
into the low end "Lexmark" club simply due to where I spotted them on
the store shelves.  I will definitely consider this for my next laser
purchase...


How about color inkjet type printers?  What are the best of
breed/support vs. best for the buck (with respectable driver support)?
Any thoughts on this?


On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 05:59 -0500, dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 09:46:24PM -0500, Ward Vandewege wrote:
> > I got a Brother HL-2070N a while back, which is $159 at Newegg:
> > 
> >   http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16828113165
> > 
> > It's a 20ppm black laser, with _cheap_ consumables ($39 for a 2,500 page
> > toner cartridge @ 5% coverage; $72 for a drum unit). It's very reliable too -
> > I have yet to have a paper jam, and the print count is north of 600 pages.
> > 
> > Oh, yeah, and it does postscript, so it works perfectly from Linux and OS X.
> > And presumably that from that other OS too, but I wouldn't know about that :)
> 
> I got an earlier version -- the HL-1670N. The page count is now
> up to 13528 with no particular problems. The built-in duplexing
> is nice, too.
> 
> -dsr-
>