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[Ferdinand Schmid]

D. Stimits wrote:

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> I've pretty much decided that if a time comes when I can afford a new
> printer, it'll either be a Lexmark printer (based in part on what you've
> mentioned, and in part on feeling it is higher quality hardware/drivers
> than HP and Epson), 


I would have to admit that the HP professional series inkjets seem to be 
of higher hardware quality (and have lower operating costs) than the 
Lexmark inkjets.  But that is not of much help if you can't get nice 
output from them on Linux!  For the relatively small quantities that my 
family is printing at home the Lexmark inkjet seems well suited.  And 
even on Windows the print quality of the Lexmark inkjets seems better 
than what the HPs can do.  I am not at all impressed with Epson print 
quality and service - on all levels.  I maintain some of those at our 
office as well.
Lexmark office laser printers (24ppm and up) by the way are of awesome 
hardware quality!  We have a few of those at our office and printer 
service visits that we were used to with the HP printers are pretty much 
a thing of the past.  Plus consumables are much cheaper.

> or a true PostScript color laser printer. But true
> PostScript color laser is rather expensive, so I doubt I'll ever own
> one. I'm really really (did I mention *really*?) disappointed in
> administrative tools for inkjets on linux, driver quality on windows,
> and hardware quality in general, for inkjets, they just plain suck even
> at the lower prices (they are basically throw-away junk if not lucky).
> 
> D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
> 
> 
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