[plug] Suggestions for scanner/printer

[Ashley Jennings]

Hi Alex,

I have an Epson Stylus C65 which installed easily with the C64 CUPS
and GimpPrint driver on Debian Stable.

Print quality and colours are decent for documents and pictures.

Below is ink levels for what may be termed as "very light usage"( ~50
pages) for the last 3-4 months on the original colour and black
cartridges.

Printer was about $100 new with a bit of markdown, not sure on cartridge prices.


seeyou

Ashley




acj at yggdrasil:~$ bin/epson_ink
Escputil version 4.2.7, Copyright (C) 2000-2001 Robert Krawitz
Escputil comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type 'escputil -l'
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type 'escputil -l' for details.

          Ink colour    Percent remaining
               Black     65
                Cyan     89
             Magenta     88
              Yellow     87








On 09/01/06, Alex Nordstrom <lx at se.linux.org> wrote:
> 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.)
>
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> Alex Nordstrom
> http://lx.n3.net/
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