Matthew's Journal

We need a new printer. Can anyone make any suggestions as to what is good / what should be avoided?

In an ideal world, it would fit the following criteria:

• Happy to only be used occasionally (I think this means laser not inkjet)
  
• Works well with linux (which I suspect means "can be driven without needing to configure cups")
  
• network or parallel or USB (I suspect the latter might cause issues, given I'm running a 2.4 series kernel, and don't do much USB) - I have a spare ethernet port I could hang it off to provide access control (assuming lpd can handle networked printers...)
  
• not painfully slow
  
• duplex
  
• likely to be reliable
  
• not vastly expensive to get new toner/ink for
  
• Not hugely expensive
  

I don't much care about colour.