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On 2018.11.12 05:08, Wols Lists wrote: |
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> On 12/11/18 08:36, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > I bought an HP_Color (their spelling, not mine!) LaserJet MFP |
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> M476dw a |
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> > few years ago. It does duplex printing and scanning and just works. |
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> A |
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> > full set of toner cartridges isn't cheap, but they last well. |
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> Looking at the front of mine, it's a Color LaserJet Pro MFP M477fdn. |
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> Nice beast, but a full set of cartridges costs more than the printer |
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> did! I went for that over its cheaper brother because when I factored |
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> in |
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> the extra life of the starter cartridges, that seemed to cover the |
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> extra |
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> cost. |
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> |
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> So far it looks good. Just two niggles - this machine is well |
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> out-of-date so CUPS doesn't seem to know about this model, and for |
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> some |
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> reason I've set up scanning for three accounts successfully, but the |
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> fourth just doesn't want to work :-( |
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Have you tried installing hplip? It seems to have more models covered |
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than the basic CUPS or even gutenprint. |
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> Again, went for HP because they seem solid and reliable. Used to have |
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> a |
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> Dell, but it was a "get a free printer if you buy 3 sets of |
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> cartridges". |
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> Very good deal but the first one broke before it used all its |
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> cartridges, and its replacement (fortunately, used the same |
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> cartridges) |
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> broke shortly after it had run through all the cartridges. So I |
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> thought |
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> "sod it, go for an HP with maintenance etc". |
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> Cheers, |
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> Wol |
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