[vox] Good printer for Ubuntu ?

[Shwaine]

On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Chris wrote:

> My Epson printer ink jet printer is not working.  So, I am considering
> buying a black and white laser printer.  I want to spend at most $400.00 and
> I am not too concerned about speed.  However, the price of cartridges is
> important to me.  Which printers work well with  ubuntu 8.04?
>

I've never had an issue with Brother laser printers under Linux. They're 
cheaper than HP to boot. In that price range, you could get a duplexed, 
networked B&W laser printer and still have PLENTY of money left over. You 
can actually get a duplexed, networked color Brother laser printer for 
less than $400 online.

As for the toner, my Brother HL-5150D is still on its original toner 
cartridge 4-5 years and 6000+ pages later (I'm not a heavy print user). 
It's actually been flashing the toner warning light for about a year now 
(since it passed 5000 page count), but the print quality hasn't declined 
yet, so I haven't replaced the toner. I did buy the new toner cartridge 
just to have on hand when the old one fails. It was around $50 online for 
the regular B&W cartridge. Color laser cartridges will of course cost 
more.