Re: Inkjet printers meeting the following requirements? Durable, Linux-compatible (or Postscript or PCL in FIRMWARE (built-in interpreter)), quality text & graphics, low ink refill or cartridge costs

From: Elmo P. Shagnasty (elmop_at_nastydesigns.com)
Date: 08/09/04 

Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 21:37:12 -0400

In article <MdARc.2973$Ow6.280510@newssvr28.news.prodigy.com>,
 "Bill Haught" <wlhaught@ameritech.net> wrote:

> Subject: Inkjet printers meeting the following requirements? Durable,
> Linux-compatible (or Postscript or PCL in FIRMWARE (built-in
> interpreter)), quality text & graphics, low ink refill or cartridge
> costs

Boy, you want it all, don't you?

In case you haven't noticed, the entire inkjet printer industry is based
on the fact that these things are throw-away devices. They design them
to fail, and expect them to fail, so as to keep people buying new ones
out of the factory.

So durability is determined: they're not. Period.

Low ink costs? Canon, with refills. But they're not durable printers,
so....nor, due to price pressure from the buying public, will any of
them have anything even remotely resembling an on-board print processor.

You need to move to color lasers to get on-board print processing, and
even then many of the low-end models don't have that.