[plug] Linux friendly Laser printers

[Craig Foster]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au 
> [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On Behalf Of Quintin Lette
> Sent: Saturday, 28 May 2005 2:02 PM
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Linux friendly Laser printers
> 
> we have a brother hl-1430 that works great in Linux
> 
> cost was $200ish at officeworks
> 
> does 14pages /minute and haven't had a problem yet. 
> Installation was simple and SuSE 9.2 had the ppd.
> 
> I don't know about toner life, we are still on the first 
> toner, and although it doesn't have ethernet we just share it 
> off one of the pcs (with cups)
 
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Noooooo!!!!

Brother OPC (developer) drums have the thinnest coating EVER!!

The green OPC coating wears off way to quick and usually leaves a dark
band of toner down one side of the page. Toner is cheap, but the
developer kit isn't.  Kyocera drums are hardened - that's part of their
product differentiation for advertising purposes.

A Kyocera FS-1010N at site I managed, does 3000 pages a month, and only
requires a yearly service. I doubt the Brother would even come close to
coping.
(Their two Kyocera FS-3800N printers both do 5000 pages a month. Gotta
love the paper-loving insurance industry :P )


Craig Foster
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