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I need a new printer. It needs to have the following properties:

  1. My computer is one of those spiffy Shuttle miniboxes and does not have a parallel port; USB, FireWire, or WiFi connectivity are necessary.
  2. Must work, out of the box, with no grief whatsoever, with Linux (specifically, Debian, unstable, CUPS)
  3. Must cost less than $200.
  4. Per-page cost of supplies must be as low as possible. If I have to buy a $50 ink cartridge every month it's no good. I expect to be printing about 50 pages a week.
  5. Should not consume mass quantities of electricity if left on all the time. I may have killed my old printer by turning it off whenever it wasn't in use.
  6. Color would be nice but is not required.
  7. Double-sided printing would also be nice; failing that, reliable operation when one prints every other page, flips the printout over, and sticks it back in to print the remainder.
  8. Paper feed should never, under any circumstances, grab more than one page at a time.

Suggestions?

Date: 2006-12-15 09:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nolly.livejournal.com
My printer reqs are sufficiently different that I can't speak to most of your points, but I can say finding a printer that meets 3 and doesn't meet one is downright difficult these days; every consumer-level printer I've seen in the past few years has been USB.

7a and 8 will be tricky, I suspect.

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