[svlug] good cheap Linux-compatible printer?

[John Conover]

Akkana Peck writes:
> like this, but ...  What inexpensive color laser printer prints
> photographs that look like photographs?

Depending on the immediacy of your printing needs, many photo shops,
(and local drug stores, like Walgreens, office supply stores, etc.,)
will allow you to print jpgs out of your camera, etc., on line-but
then you have to go get them in about 10 minutes. (And you can't do
novel things like adjust for photo paper gamma, etc.)

I don't know if its still true, or not, but about a year ago I went
through the costs, and having flicks remote printed on a Kodak image
machine-and Kodak paper-is cheaper than the ink and photo quality
paper, (at least for Epson electrostatic/piezoelectric 1024 dpi
printers.) The professional projectors used in photo shops produce
very good prints with QA strips for gamma, etc.

Its an option, if you can tolerate the inconvenience.

      John

BTW, HP and Epson are not in the printer biz. They are in the ink biz,
(most of their printer division's profits come from ink.)  Its the
Gillette razor biz model.

Most of the after market "as good as" cartridge replacements do not
have the same solvents in the ink to keep the heads clean, (the stuff
is a trade secret,) clogging the ink dot squirters. The nozzles come
in the cartridges for some/most HPs, but on Epsons, its a factory
replacement issue-or a new printer.

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John Conover, conover at rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/