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On 2018-03-01, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Thu, 1 Mar 2018 15:10:58 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: |
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>> I despise all inkjets, but maybe that's just me. |
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> It's not. |
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>> I'd pick mono laser over any inkjet. |
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> That depends on your printing needs. I've now got an HP colour laser AIO |
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> device. It was expensive but it does everything I need with minimal fuss. |
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Here's my HP testimonial: I've had an HP LaserJet 1320 printer (mono) |
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for almost 15 years. It's brilliant: 1200DPI, Postscript, Duplexing. |
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It still works like it did when it was new. |
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I've had to by _one_ toner cartridge, it's still got many miles left |
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on it. |
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I don't print much, and the one Canon ink-jet printer I had before the |
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HP LaserJet had an operating cost of about $10/page. Yes, dollars. |
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Once every couple months, I'd need to print a few pages -- and I'd |
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have to by yet another new cartridge and thow out the 99% full one |
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that had stopped working. |
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> The only point I'd make about HP AIO devices is that while the hplip |
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> package is free and open source, to use it with a scanner it downloads a |
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> non-free binary blob. Whether this matters depends on whether you are a |
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> pragmatist or zealot ;-) |
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If I cared about scanning, I'd be very tempted to spend enough money |
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to get a network-connected printer that just e-mails me a PDF document |
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or writes it to a network file server. |
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Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! We just joined the |
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at civil hair patrol! |
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gmail.com |
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