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December 1, 2006
Brother 2070N Network Laser Printer: Cheap, Linux Drivers Available
I finally got a laser printer., network printing, and networked filesharing My brother started the process when he came to visit over Thanksgiving. In retrospect, he solved more problems than necessary: he set up my old Lexmark z615 bubblejet in Linux and set up the basic Samba server. He couldn't get the printer working by the time he left, but he got it working by working from the command line, back at his house in San Antonio. Since then I've gotten the Brother 2070N laser printer ($92) he recommended, and that was a relative cake walk. The real savings on the printer is in the ink: the toner cartridges can be had for under $30, and they last for reams, where as we all have our horror stories about bubblejets with $50 cartridges with a thimble-full of ink. And those refill kits? Why should I bother with that when I can have laser-printer crispness for less money? I've also set up all the laptops to access the printer and the share drive, so now there's really no reason to have multiple copies of anything, except perhaps working copies checked out for work on the road where there may be no internet access. And my wife's work, which isn't set up yet. Gotta work on that next, maybe over Christmas break.
Posted by Niels Olson at December 1, 2006 9:59 PM
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