Re: [Hampshire] Desktop colour laser printers

Samuel Penn wrote:
> On Saturday 12 December 2009 17:08:55 Roger Munford wrote:
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>> I am in the process of choosing a small colour laser printer for very a
>> light printing requirement. The last one was sadly only half way through
>> its second set of cartridges after about 5 years.
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>> Does anybody have strong "must check out" or "must avoid" advice on both
>> printers and suppliers. It almost goes without saying that it must work
>> well with Linux.
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> I've got a Xerox Phaser 8560DN, which I'm happy with. It's an
> IP printer, and works with CUPS (I don't recall where I got the
> ppds from, but I think I had to download them from somewhere).
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> It's a duplex colour laser, so not at the cheap end of the market.
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Thanks for the tip. I am keeping an eye on the Xerox Phaser 6280. It is
sold with a decent amount of toner , mentions Linux in the
documentation. It performs better than my requirements but there is a
cashback offer which makes if quite attractive.