[Pc_Support] Dell 3100cn Color LaserJet with PostScript and LPD for $329.40 shipped!

[Homer Whittaker]

Brian Ashe wrote:

>>Wife is in the market for a new color printer. 
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>Funny, I've been looking recently myself. (Note: I am
>not Bryan's wife.) I was looking at a $500 model and a
>$300 one. IIRC, one was some flavor of HP 2550. Had
>networking but I didn't look at RAM, etc. I think it
>was PostScript. Looking online, toner for 2550s is
>$100 per color. For $500, it probably ships with
>"starter rolls"--aka, half-empty. (Or half-full,
>depending on your POV. :-) ) The $300 model was, I
>think, from Brother, on sale at Office Depot. (Not
>saying these are better, just giving you some
>background.) Hadn't yet gotten 'round to checking it
>out, just saw it in the Sunday paper sales flyers.
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>>But today, lo'n behold, the Dell 3100cn Color Laser
>>was on
>>sale for $329.40, about the same price as its 3000cn
>>brotheren.
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>Sweet! Are these re-badged HPs? Where do you get
>consumables? Dell? HP? Searching CompUSA.com for 'hp
>3100' I see only black:
>http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=50170019&pfp=SEARCH
>The same search at CDW comes up empty. I can't get
>through to dell.com right now. Have you priced
>consumables? What does it work out to, price-per-page?
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>>And
>>we all
>>know how India's--er, I mean Dell's support is.  ;->
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>FYI, I recently had the displeasure of going a couple
>rounds with some Apple customer (not tech) support
>people, all of whom had mild British accents. :-p 
>Same everywhere, I suppose. (Though Dell brought their
>Corporate support people back to TX, IIRC. Baby
>steps...)
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Brian:  I suggest that you look at the Lexmark printers. They are 
Professional grade when they print!
HOWEVER, and I say it again, however you should examine their tech 
sheets to make sure that  your flavor of Linux is supported.  If not you 
do not get to utilize all of their excellent programming. 
I get dissed off at them because of their limited linux support but they 
are good!
Homer Whittaker