[Cialug]linux compatible hardware

[Josh More]

We have a Xerox phaser here in the office.  It's a nicely-priced colour
laser printer.  It has high print quality, and plays nicely on the
network... usually.

Ours has a bad processor card in it.  We found this out when it freaked
out, assigned itself a wildcard IP address, and started accepting jobs
for other printers.  Simultaneously the control panel on the printer
broke, so we couldn't troubleshoot it.  Since it didn't have a real IP
address, we couldn't use the web-based control panels.

Interesting side note:  If you hit the buttons on a Xerox randomly, you
can get config sheets to print out.

On the plus side, Xerox phone support is top notch.  They believed the
problem and are sending us a new processor card.

On the minus side, they are backordered, and we've been without our
printer for over a month.

I recommend HPs and Savins.

 
 

-Josh More, RHCE, CISSP, NCLP, GIAC 
 morej at alliancetechnologies.net 
 515-245-7701



>>> "Dave J. Hala Jr." <dave at 58ghz.net> 08/29/07 9:45 AM >>> 
I vaguely remember doing a cost analysis on a large hp network printer
and Xerox laser 6-7 years ago.  I remember the Xerox having lower
overall costs. However, I chickened out at the last second and bought
the HP. (No one ever got fired for buying an Hp network printer)

Have you had good luck with the Xerox in a mixed environment? Any
driver/network printing problems?


On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 06:50 -0500, Jonathan C. Bailey wrote:
> I've had excellent luck with APC UPSs (network connected is better of
course), and as far as a printer, I like the Xerox Phaser series of
printers (laser/thermal). They "just work".
> 
> -Jon
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nathan C. Smith" <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com>
> To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 12:35:06 AM (GMT-0600)
America/Chicago
> Subject: RE: [Cialug]linux compatible hardware
> 
> I'd wager any "common" brand of UPS and just about any PCL or PS
printer.
> Did you mean inkjet or laser?
> 
> -Nate 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dan Hockey [mailto:icepuck2k at mchsi.com] 
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 4:03 PM
> > To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> > Subject: [Cialug]linux compatible hardware
> > 
> > does anyone know of an up-to-date linux hardware list for ups 
> > and printers?
> > -dh
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