On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 08:15:54PM +0200, Eric JACQUOT wrote:
quoted text > Hi Ropers,
>
> Le Sun, 5 Apr 2009 19:44:27 +0200,
> ropers <ropers@gmail.com> a icrit :
>
> > I'm looking for a colour laser printer that's so cheap that I can put
> > it on my birthday wish list and stand a chance of getting it (too
> > broke to buy one myself).
> >
> > - The printer should work with OpenBSD without a hitch, and by that I
> > don't mean "can sometimes be gotten to work by endlessly tweaking
> > CUPS", and I also don't mean "can be gotten to work with compat_linux
> > and a binary blob",
> > - the printer should also be Linux-compatible (Windows-compatibility
> > not required),
> > - it should be a colour laser printer,
> > - replacement cartridges shouldn't be prohibitively expensive,
> > - and it should be as cheap as possible without totally sucking
> > monkey balls.**
> >
> > Oh, and I have an aversion to HP, so it would be better if it wasn't
> > from them.
>
> So am I ;)
>
> I use personnaly a Xerox Phaser 6130N (tested and work very good since
> I bought it with openbsd 4.2, and working as a usb local printer like
> as a network printers with its embbedded network interface). No blob,
> just a ppd file provided on Xerox Site (like all others models) and It
> just works good with a great quality printing. Everything but the good
> model depends of your monthly printing.
>
> But it'd been just my humble opinion, I just love Xerox ;) because i
> can't find at this time a printer from them without a ppd file provided
> on their site.
Xerox has been good for us too (genuine Postscript helps). The Phaser 6180
has been a good printer, and the successor 6280 looks quite similar.
Graham
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