[kde-linux] KWrite/printer problem

[david]

Duncan wrote:
> jim posted on Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:47:09 -0700 as excerpted:
> 
>> This is a MAJOR problem, I dont understand why more people arnt
>> complaining. Does nobody care that they are loosing the last 2 lines of
>> every document they print? Or haven't they noticed it?
> 
> FWIW, it's likely that a lot of folks simply don't have printers, these 
> days.
> 
> I got rid of my ink jet because it wasn't cost effective buying a $30 ink 
> cartridge to print a few pages every six months or so... then the ink 
> dries out and either have to hassle trying to get it to work and getting 
> everything all inky cleaning it, with only perhaps a 50% success rate 
> anyway, or simply give up and put a new cartridge in before I even hassle 
> it.
> 
> I've been going to get a laser printer some day, but it just never seems 
> to happen.  I always have other stuff I need more.  And I don't print 
> that often anyway, and if I do need to print something, I can always 
> thumb-drive it and take it down to kinko's or something if I really need 
> it printed.  Yeah, they might charge a decent amount for it, but it's 
> certainly not more expensive than a new $30 cartridge every half-dozen 
> pages or whatever.

I have a Canon inkjet photo printer and an HP LJ4012 laser. They're our 
2nd inkjet and 3rd laser. Printing photos here at home is much more 
convenient, faster and cheaper than printing via Kinkos or other such 
places. And lasers are still champs when it comes to volume printing 
(like book manuscripts).

The nice thing about even cheap lasers is cartridges can sit there for 
years. You might not ever even need to buy another cartridge.

Perhaps we print more than you do. ;-)

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David
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