[conspire] (forw) [svlug] Free HP Color LaserJet model 2605DN if you hurry

[Ross Bernheim]

Rick,

Kodak Color Printing Paper was about 35 cents per sheet and the photo
quality ink jet paper from everybody was around 70 cents to a dollar or
more a sheet. So even with the cost of chemicals it was less expensive
to do a color print in the darkroom.

The color dark room was a lot more expensive to purchase than a color
inkjet printer. When I got most of the pieces, color laser printers didn’t 
exist. At the time I moved to the color inkjet printer, color laser printers
were well out of the reach of the home user. Now they are getting down
towards $150. Still not worth it for me as I don’t really need color printing
anymore on a regular basis.

Ross


> On Feb 3, 2017, at 4:07 PM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> 
> Quoting Ross Bernheim (rossbernheim at gmail.com):
> 
>> Rick,
>> 
>> In my case, I wanted to do a lot of color printing of photos.
> 
> Obviously one needs a colour printer for that, but I'd have shopped for
> a laser rather than using a Canon (or any other) inkjet.  Yes, I forgot
> about the nasty price hit from that special Kodak paper:  That's another 
> part of the problem.
> 
> Although lacking expertise in this area, I am guessing that the same or
> similar paper would also have been (and is) necessary to get ultimate
> quality in colour using either printing technology.
> 
>> My printer now and for a while has been a Samsung b&W laser printer.
>> Good price, reliable, duplex printing and Postscript. Cartridges are not
>> inexpensive, but reasonable and given the number of pages they print and 
>> cost, very good TCO.
> 
> That's exactly what I've been hearing.
> 
> There was a time when Grant Taylor's openprinting.org Web site included
> very perceptive mini-reviews and recommendations about good,
> Linux-friendly laser (and other) printers.  Then, Grant turned the site
> over to Linux Foundation, and it became a lot less useful and lost the
> review content.
> 
> 
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