[clug] MFP Printers

David C cottrill.david at gmail.com
Thu Dec 11 19:47:32 MST 2014


My HP has been great. The equivalent Brother printer drivers have been
pretty destructive to CUPS.
On 12 Dec 2014 12:20, "Michael James" <michael at james.st> wrote:

> On 12 Dec 2014, at 11:37 am, Andrew Janke <a.janke at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Far better than the plethora of HP devices I've had in the past but
> > that's just my anecdotal experience.
>
> I have 2 HP devices,
>  the first is a perfect example of why I always bought HP
>  the second explains why I will never buy another.
>
> The first is an HP4050N, it's an old B&W workgroup laser printer.
> Bought it at auction 2nd hand, runs for ages on a refilled toner cartridge,
>  networked, accessible to anything with a generic postscript driver.
>
> The 2nd is an HP2510 Multi Function printer/scanner/copier/fax.
> All proprietary drivers, they stopped producing the updates 4 iterations
> of MacOS ago.
> I can only scan using Vuescan (a brilliant piece of software, never
> regretted buying it).
> Expensive cartridges, hard to refill. No more HPs for me.
>
> The Fuji Xerox cm305df sounds interesting...
>
> michaelj
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