[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: success storyr

[Chuck]

> Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 23:42:09 -0600
> From: Rodney Loos <loosfamily at loosfamily.net>
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] success storyr
> To: NTLUG Discussion List <discuss at ntlug.org>
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> Robert Pearson wrote:
> > On 12/4/05, Stuart Johnston <saj at thecommune.net> wrote:
> >> Chuck wrote:
> >>> FWIW, I just bought a Samsung laser printer at Fry's for $129, and it
> >>> says "Linux" on the box.  Model ML-2010.  Got the driver from the
> >>> Samsung website, untared it, and ran the install script.  Works
> >>> perfectly.
> >>
> >> BestBuy has it on sale right now for $79.99.  Does Fry's do price
> >> matching?
> >
> > When I did a price search on this printer some places with higher
> > prices showed a
> > $50 mail-in rebate off of the $129.99 price. Some didn't.
> > Maybe the lower price places are knocking off the rebate for you in
> > advance. In the case of Best Buy, my experience has been closer to
> > deceptive advertising.
> > It is good to know about the $50 rebate going in the door.
>
> Very curious, Fry's has it on their outpost.com website for $69.99, but
> Fry's won't even match their own web site when in the store, so I'm not
> sure what their store price might now be.  The site says the print
> language is SPL (Samsung Printer Language) and that it uses host-based
> printing, but id does say it supports Linux.  $69 is hard to beat for a
> laser printer.  Anyone have any idea what kind of performance penalty
> this has on a linux box?  Do you still set it up as a Postscript printer?
>
> Rodney

Mine works in both resolutions that it offers, and the toner-saver mode works.   
The only thing that did not seem work was printing two sided from the Windows 
machine that it shares to..  Speed is fine and the prints look beautiful.

Chuck