What is the best printer for the price?

[Phil Waclawski]

Considering how dry it is here in Aridzona, unless you do a lot of printing
or print several times a week, I'd go for a laser printer. I've had too
many of those ink cartridges dry up before I can print enough to make them
useful.

Phil W

On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 7:38 PM, Daniel Stasinski <daniel at genericinbox.com>
wrote:

>
> Just as an aside, avoid printers that have the ink nozzles built in.  When
> the nozzles clog, there is a self-cleaning feature but you can burn through
> an entire cartridge doing the clean.
>
> *Daniel P. Stasinski*
> daniel at GenericInbox.com
> I 💛✞
>
> On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 7:21 PM, Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> thankssss guys
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 8:49 PM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Look for printers with at least all the features you want.  Then look at
>>> the yield you get per cartridge and divide that by the cartridges price and
>>> eliminate the most expensive yields.  Keep in mind that the more expensive
>>> cartridges can be the cheapest ones if the yield is high.
>>> Then check the printers that are left and see if their cartridges
>>> require chips and if so has it been reverse engineered.  You want to make
>>> sure that 3rd party cartridges are available.  If there aren't any, the
>>> printer manufacturer can decide when your printer is obsolete, so eliminate
>>> those too.  Lean towards cartridges that aren't chipped at all; you don't
>>> want the manufacturer to sue the 3rd party guys and make your future supply
>>> go away... not to mention shame on them for chipping the carts in the first
>>> place.
>>> Lastly check to make sure that there aren't any weird hoops you need to
>>> jump through to make it work on Linux.
>>>
>>> Once you've gone through all that, pick the best one left... or the
>>> prettiest one... whatever tickles your fancy.
>>>
>>> Brian Cluff
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 01/27/2018 06:04 PM, Michael wrote:
>>>
>>> these are the printers the cartridges will work with
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 12:44 PM, Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I can get HP or Canon.
>>>> HP:
>>>> CM2320
>>>> CP2025
>>>> Canon color image class:
>>>> LBP7200C
>>>> LBP7200Cd
>>>> LBP7200CN
>>>> LBP7200Cdn
>>>> LBP7210Cdn
>>>> LBP7600C
>>>> LBP7660Cdn
>>>> LBP7680Cx
>>>> 8350Cdn
>>>> MF8380Cdw
>>>> MF8580Cdw
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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