Recommend a printer?

[ewx]

I'm after a new printer. It'll be used both for documents (e.g. Naath's OU homework) and for photographs; though if I want particularly high-quality photos I'm happy to go get them done specially rather than buy/feed an unusually expensive printer.

It'd be attached to a Linux server and driven from Mac/Linux/Windows clients (presumably via CUPS) so it'd better be something that can be driven that way (ideally without endless pain but this is printers we're talking about...)

My old printer is an Epson Stylus Color 660 and appears to have unfixably clogged some of the black jets. So I'd prefer something that either inherently doesn't clog up or has the printhead built into the ink cartridge.

Recommendations for/against?

If anyone wants my spare ink cartridges (4 black and 4 color, non-branded), let me know.

Comments

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Don't use Lexmark? Dodgy and poor quality, nasssty. I suspect that wouldn't like Linux much anyway, since I bet they won't have invented a Linux way to flash up a little dialogue box and say, "Printing Started" in an exaggerated American accent when you click print...

I like my little HP Deskjet 5940 but I can't speak for its Linux-happiness or its clogging-resistant-ness, and although the photo print quality is good enough for me, I'm not a photo-geek so am not a very good judge.

[imc.livejournal.com]

The HP Linux driver (http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html) is open source and was written by HP themselves, so it ought to be fairly decent. I've an HP DeskJet 990 which is still being served by a Red Hat 7.3 box, which goes to show how old it is. As for clogging resistance,

So I'd prefer something that either inherently doesn't clog up or has the printhead built into the ink cartridge.

HPs tend to have the print head built into the ink cartridge, which makes the cartridges relatively expensive but means you can replace it if it clogs (and to be honest I don't think mine ever has, though I print very infrequently).

And
If anyone wants my spare ink cartridges (4 black and 4 color, non-branded)

Hence the clogging, no doubt. </controversial>

(We won't mention that the cartridges in my printer are branded ‘Tesco&rsquo…)