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

[gjm11.livejournal.com]

I can't comment on how good colour lasers are for printing photos (I never print photos), but my own experience with going OTT on printers is that several years ago I bought an LJ2200d (smallish office-standard laser, does duplexing, etc.) to replace the canonical small flaky HP home laser printer I had before, and I have never regretted it for an instant. Yes, it cost about twice as much as I'd have paid for a cheaper printer that notionally did the same sort of thing; yes, it takes up more space and weighs more; but it's robust and quick and prints happily on both sides of the paper and interprets PostScript itself, and I like it very much. I'll be surprised if what I replace it with (in a few decades :-) when it gets old) is anything other than a colour laser printer.