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On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 11:15 +0100, Neil Winchurst wrote: > Hi Tom, good to hear from you. > > I see your point about not needing a colour printer. In that case, would > a laser printer be more sense? I have not looked at any so far as colour > lasers a rather pricey. I had not thought about your idea of having a > B/W printer. > > See you on 21st? I'd like to echo Tom, I gave up on colour inkjets as I swear to God that I spent more on do print head clean cycles to try and get it working again than actually printing anything useful. My current printer is an HP Laserjet 1022 and has been perfect. Under recent Ubuntu (10.04) it detected the printer being plugged in and instructed me to simple type (I think) "hp-plugin-ubuntu". This downloaded and installed the driver automagically. The printer previous to that was also a b+w laser, a Samsung something or other. Worked very well for years. Even the "starter" cartridge both printers came with are good for 1500 or so pages. New one for the Samsung was about Â70 and is good for 4000 pages I believe. Cheap as chips per page. If you do have a need to print 6x4 or 7x5 photographs, I have an HP Photosmart 636 which has proved very good, but expensive pre print. Normally I use an online service like Photobox to upload photographs and have them printed and delivered, (sneaky tip, lots of services off first 20 photo's free if you just pay p&p, so make a new email address and register a new account! Lots of services offer boosts to your account though like more storage space for repeated orders so you may want that anyway) As mentioned, the Photosmart 636 is fairly expensive I have found for the inks. We have just bought my mum a small photo printer and I have to say it seems a heck of a lot cheaper to run than my own, its a Canon Selphy (can't recall the model number) its around Â70 on Play.com or Amazon. She got a kit of ink (dye sub) and papers for Â25 or so, that will print 108 photos. More expensive than online ordering, but great if you just want a few prints quickly. -- John http://subbass.blogspot.com/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq