[plug] Suggestions for scanner/printer

[Alex Nordstrom]

Greetings!

Due to the impending anniversary of my coming into being and the 
resulting generosity of genetically similar to me, I am currently in 
the market for an inkjet printer, or possibly an affordable 
printer/scanner combo (probably no more than $160).

What brands and models carry the PLUG members' seal of approval in terms 
of value for money, (Debian) Gnu/Linux friendliness, and ink economy at 
the moment? The http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/ project looks 
promising, and it's in the Debian repositories. Are things what they 
seem, and how do scanner combos fit into the picture?

(This is to replace my existing Lexmark Z25, which, despite shipping in 
a box with a friendly tux on the box, was a bother to get working under 
a non-RPM distribution, and whose ink cartridges are so expensive that 
I never bothered to check if I was actually successful in setting it 
up--the cartridge ran out just before I switched to Linux a few years 
ago.)

-- 
Alex Nordstrom
http://lx.n3.net/
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