Printers

[Richard Shaw]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Mike Chambers <mike at miketc.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 10:24 -0500, Michael Comperchio wrote:
>> What would be the best choice in inexpensive printers for use with
>> Fedora? I'm relatively new to F10, though I've used Linux before. I'm
>> hoping to never have to boot to the windoze side again.  But printing
>> and the inability to sync up with my Palm Lifedrive are the major
>> holdups for that. I can probably live without the Livedrive...but I do
>> need to print
>
> HP printers seem to be very well supported.  Also I think Brothers
> printers are as well.  I don't know about Lexmark, but they may be
> supported good now, or at least better than before.

Sorry for jumping in here so late...

I just purchased a HP C5580 from newegg.com and got it on sale for
$100 & free shipping. It's a multi-function photosmart printer and so
far it's worked great. Scanner works fine, photo tray engages
automatically (My Photosmart 1115 had a manual tray) and the memory
card reader works (My 1115 still did not as of F9) and it prints well
on printable CD/DVD's with a custom template for glabels.

It supports both 15ml cartridges (cheap but not a lot of ink, $16 on
hp.com) or XL cartridges. Just bought an XL color and B&W combo from
Costco for ~$60 but it should last a while.

Richard