Gentoo-wise, I’ve requested xterm-218 to go stable. A few architectures have already done that and others have had their ATs verify/validate the builds. Meanwhile, I’m looking to stable gnucash-2.0.1 on other architectures, but it’s pointed out that postgresql is not really a valid back-end any more. What’s a dev to do?
Aimee is taking some classes, you see. And in some of them she has to write papers. At other times, we have forms and sometimes maps to print out (though less so in her car, which has a navigation system in it).
We probably want to print out photos at some point. I was thinking we’d get a laser black and white printer now for the papers etc and then a colour photo printer thingy later on.
So in #gentoo-dev this weekend, I got one strong vote for Samsung printers, and a couple of votes for HP printers. However, the HP printers were a little out of hand for price — I can not justify spending 300 buckaroos on it. I think my cap is 200 USD only.
EDIT: The home network is 2 wireless laptops: one gentoo and one ibook (OS X), with any of them having an equal chance of being “off the network” at any time, if that makes sense.
So, I’m open to thoughts and suggestions from my 4 readers (yes, my readership has doubled!! 🙂
Talk to me, people
I have a Kyocera FS-1020D. The price of toner is quite lower than Samsung and HP (considering the price per page): duplex,
20ppm, 10ppm if duplex, USB connection, works fine with cups (the PPDs files are available on Kyocera site, I have an ebuild for them (fetch restricted) on my overlay too).
I find myself comfortable with it.
The Konica Magicolor 2430DL has been on sale at Fry’s recently for $179 for a refurb unit.
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/2430dl.ars
It can use the foo2zjs driver quite nicely, but also ships with linux source.
I’ve always been a fan of the Samsungs (happy with the ML-1430 and ML-1710), although I recently got a HP LaserJet 1018 that works quite nicely with Gentoo after a visit to linuxprinting.org.
I am very satisfied with the HP Deskjet 5940. It just works under linux, it’s very fast (especially in draft mode which is better then my last printers high quality mode, especially if you are doing lots of text) and the photo printing it does is very good. The ink is decently priced (about $25 at the local Office Depot), and the cartridges last quite a long time. And it’s durable – my cats jump on it all the time (they are very bad kitties).
I searched a long time for a printer that was right for me, and this is what I settled on, and I’ve been happy with it.
Just one note to Seemant 🙂
I think that your readers numbers far more than *4*, but most people only come to your webpage to drop comments, even though many more read your posts through the planet.
I just use my RSS reader to read your posts, as do I suspect many others do, and in that way we don’t get to weigh in on the statistics 🙂
Yeah, I read from planet too. Anyways, I got the low end samsung laser, and it’s good. Gtk installer on the CD and running that with CUPS set up got it going nice. I had to play with the configuration to get network printing working, but I was pleased with Samsungs support. We have a Brother printer at work which is close to the same price and I don’t like that one at all.
Also, for the price of ink and a printer, printing digitals at WalMart seems the way to go. My wife just sends them all in online and goes to pick them up. (That option may be through Sams Club though).
(FWIW, Bloglines lists 177 subscribers to the planet feed alone, 29 for Gentoo Universe, and 4 subscribers to your individual feed…)
The PG backend for gnucash hasn’t been “valid” for a while, actually. I would guess that very few users actually use it, as it was never encouraged, nor well-supported. So its loss shouldn’t be too much of a problem.