Thanks very much! Sorry, the printing is largely of documents, but the printer 
sits for a while doing nothing. I guess laser is the way to go then? What are 
goog suggestions then?

Ranjan

On Fri, 10 Jan 2020 20:26:23 +1030 Tim via users 
<users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2020-01-09 at 16:05 -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > What would be a good low-volume, cheap-to-use/maintain home printer
> > for use with Fedora 31 and beyond?
>
> You should probably say what kind of things are important to you.
> Colour, printing photos, or just documents...
>
> I use a second-hand Hewlett Packard laser printer.  The older ones are
> built like a tank, and last forever.
>
> Inkjet's can be a problem with low-volume printing, the ink can dry out
> or gunk up between use (depends on how little you print), but even if
> you use it often enough to avoid that, they waste much of their tiny
> amount of expensive ink during their cleaning routine.  Laser toner is
> much more cost effective than ink.
>
> About the only cost effective inkjets are the ones with the large
> outboard ink tanks, with continuous feed tubes to the head.  Their
> large refill bottles are about the only ones that are not a monumental
> rip off, and you only have to top up the tanks that are actually low on
> ink.
>
> But you still have to contend with the clogged heads that plague
> inkjets.  Remember that issue's made worse with cheap and nasty paper.
>
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