[svlug] good cheap Linux-compatible printer?

[Mark S Bilk]

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 09:55:25AM -0700, Bill Ward wrote:
>On 5/16/07, Mark S Bilk <mark at cosmicpenguin.com> wrote:
>> So about three years ago I bought a Samsung ML-1740 laser printer
>> ...
>
>I have the ML-1740 which I bought at Frys cheaply too.  It works
>perfectly out of the box over USB with Ubuntu, no driver installation
>needed.  It even auto-detected it.

Thanks, Bill!  I think I'm going to use OpenSuSE 10.2 next, and 
hopefully it will do as well with the printer as Ubuntu.  

The ML-1740's print quality is good, and it can take legal size 
paper, and apparently envelopes too.  

I've also been very happy with my Samsung 950p 19" CRT, still 
sharp and bright after maybe ten years.  It had the best video
bandwidth of them all, and cost much less than the trinitrons 
and displayed better fine detail as well.  I displayed rows of 
tiny "m"s and dots on the screens in the stores and looked at 
them with a 10x lens.  Found out that a lot of monitors were 
spec'ed for much higher resolutions than their video amplifiers
could possibly display; the companies were just lying, and 
they knew it.  But Samsung was honest and their monitor also 
had the best design.

  Mark