good color laser printer?

[Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak]

Can anyone recommend a good networked color laser printer that works 
well with linux? I'm printing color text documents rather than photos.

I have some Konica-Minolta 2350EN's, but the 4 toner cartridges give up 
well before they are empty (and if one color toner goes, it seems to 
force you to replace all color toners, even if they aren't empty). I 
know all manufacturers do that to some extent, but it's really 
outrageous on the 2350EN. And a full set of high-capacity cartridges 
cost more than a new printer...

- Mike

[taharka]

How do,

On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 09:48 -0400, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
>  Can anyone recommend a good networked color laser printer that works
>
>  well with linux? I'm printing color text documents rather than photos.
>  
>  I have some Konica-Minolta 2350EN's, but the 4 toner cartridges give up 
>  well before they are empty (and if one color toner goes, it seems to 
>  force you to replace all color toners, even if they aren't empty). I 
>  know all manufacturers do that to some extent, but it's really 
>  outrageous on the 2350EN. And a full set of high-capacity cartridges 
>  cost more than a new printer... 
How are these prices compared to what you've been paying?
http://www.101inks.com/locate.asp?CatID=laser&printer_model=QMS
+MagiColor+2350EN&manufacture=Konica-Minolta

>  - Mike 
taharka

Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.

[Frank Cox]

On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:48:29 -0400
"Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak" <mjc(a)avtechpulse.com&gt; wrote:

>  Can anyone recommend a good networked color laser printer that works
>
>  well with linux? I'm printing color text documents rather than photos. 
I have a HP2550L that I am quite happy with.  It was also available in a
networked version.

I'm not sure what the current equivalent model is, but it is probably worth
your while to take a look at the colour HP's.

-- 
MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com

[DJ Delorie]

Frank Cox <theatre(a)sasktel.net&gt; writes:
>  I have a HP2550L that I am quite happy with.  It was also available
>  in a networked version. 
I have an HP2550N, the networked version, and I'm also quite happy
with it.  The FC6 printing subsystem found it over the network, and
connected to it just fine.  I've got seven machines (mostly linux,
some XP) that all share it.

Note that the management software is windows based, and does provide
some options that you can't get via just Linux, like getting emails
when the toner runs low, or settings for >105g/m2 card stock.  In
theory, it would run under Linux - it's java+web based - but I've
never gotten it to work, so I just run it on an XP machine.

I have wrappers for lpr that set up black-toner-only, multi-copy, and
a few other options that I commonly use, though.  I also have a small
perl/motif-based status viewer so I know what the "error blinky"
means.