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On 09/12/2011 11:34, Neil Winchurst wrote:
My current printer is over 5 years old, although it still works quite well (Epson Stylus Photo 810). I am wondering if it is reaching its sell by date so I have been looking around the internet for some ideas about a replacement. What a nightmare! There are so many printers around it is just crazy. So what do I use my printer for? Occasional print of a photograph. I have recently joined the local photographic society so I will probably be wanting to do a bit more photo printing now. I also do like a reasonable result when printing text. I am not interested in fax, duplex or anything larger than A4. However my wife has her computer in another room so I have the set-up for her to send print instructions to my computer via the wifi which means that my computer and printer have to both be switched on before it works. So I would like a printer which has wifi or some other way of connecting to the router. Incidentally my router, Netgear DG834G does have wifi, of course, but does not have a USB port. So far it seems that the makes to consider are either Epson or HP.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/tag/wifi%20printer/productsThere's a wide range of makes it seems. I would first pick your budget and then look at what printers suit your needs within that. Presumably you won't be going the MFP route? In terms of Linux I would also be inclined to look at older models which suit your needs - provided you can get consumables for them of course! - because I think they're more likely to 'just work' in Linux without mucking about :)
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