On Sunday 05 April 2009 14:02:39 Marc Balmer wrote:
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> Am 05.04.2009 um 19:44 schrieb ropers:
> > I'm looking for a colour laser printer that's so cheap that I can put
> > it on my birthday wish list and stand a chance of getting it (too
> > broke to buy one myself).
> >
> > - The printer should work with OpenBSD without a hitch, and by that I
> > don't mean "can sometimes be gotten to work by endlessly tweaking
> > CUPS", and I also don't mean "can be gotten to work with compat_linux
> > and a binary blob",
> > - the printer should also be Linux-compatible (Windows-compatibility
> > not required),
> > - it should be a colour laser printer,
> > - replacement cartridges shouldn't be prohibitively expensive,
> > - and it should be as cheap as possible without totally sucking
> > monkey balls.**
> >
> > Oh, and I have an aversion to HP, so it would be better if it wasn't
> > from them.
>
> we use some quite cheap HP printers with OpenBSD.  Since you have an
> aversion
> to HP, I did not look up the number.
>
> They work nicely with LaTeX and cost in the 0-400 range I've been
> told.

Marc, I'd appreciate the model number(s) of the HP printers.  I'm getting
ready to make some dual-boot systems, and these folks all want printers.

Seems that this might make a good faq entry, if it isn't already there(?).

Thanks, 

--STeve Andre'