Printer Recommendation

[Eric Cope]

the entry level brothers work well. One even has a network port.
Eric

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 3:27 AM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com>wrote:

> Hi Mark!
>
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 23:47 -0700, Mark Jarvis wrote:
>> >
>> > We have an HP Laserjet 1018 printer. I like it fine, except . . . it
>> > doesn't feed the paper straight. No matter how I fiddle with the feed
>> > guides, the output is almost always skewed 1/16-1/18 inch. This
>> > creates a problem when we go to use the output as masters to run off a
>> > church newspaper.
>>
>>
> I recently priced and and compared printers, and found that the EPSONs
> were, by far the best value for the cost.  I replaced a HP PCS All-In-One
> that was worth it's weight in gold (for ink cartridges) with an EPSON
> Workforce 600 that prints, scans, faxes and copies using a document feeder,
> and includes the nice feature of network IP via wireless as well as wired.
> IP printing is easier to setup across platforms for all my systems
> (Apple/Mac, Windows, FreeBSD, Solaris, Linux).  I like mine a great deal,
> especially since it's a low energy hog.
>
> Of course, if you are printing a great number of color items regularly,
> Kinkos is going to be the most economical, while giving a good result, once
> you factor in ink cartridge prices.
>
> Of course that's not going to be the 600 dpi printing of the HP 1012,
> instead, it's
> up to 9600 x 9600 dpi.
>
> I haven't attempted to do any faxing over a grandstream ATA using VOIP,
> however, but a land line would be especially nice with this printer for
> faxing.
>
> Scanning is screaming fast and high quality, and of particular benefit is
> the document feeder (if you have ever had to create a large number of
> documents collated from a stack).  I haven't tried to use any OCR linux
> tools with her yet, but the Mac software that comes with it, seems solid and
> includes an OCR and print to PDF function/feature.
>
> I paid a good deal more for my printer, however, you can snarf this model
> for just $39.99 right now from OfficeMax:
> http://www.officemax.com/catalog/sku.jsp?skuId=21694873
>
> Here's the current price comparison for the great product:
>
> http://bensbargains.nextag.com/Epson-WorkForce-600/zzbensbargainszB1z0--search-html
>
>
>  > Any suggestions on how to either a) effectively de-skew the printer or
>> > b) a printer (within a home budget) that can be counted on to print
>> > exactly straight?
>> >
>> > FWIW, we earlier had an HP Laserjet 1012 which had essentially the
>> > same problem.
>> ----
>> just for kicks, try using 24 lb paper, that is all I have used for many,
>> many years.
>>
>> Craig
>>
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