[NTLUG:Discuss] success storyr

[Rodney Loos]

Robert Pearson wrote:
> On 12/4/05, Stuart Johnston <saj at thecommune.net> wrote:
>   
>> Chuck wrote:
>>     
>>> FWIW, I just bought a Samsung laser printer at Fry's for $129, and it says
>>> "Linux" on the box.  Model ML-2010.  Got the driver from the Samsung website,
>>> untared it, and ran the install script.  Works perfectly.
>>>       
>> BestBuy has it on sale right now for $79.99.  Does Fry's do price matching?
>>     
>
> When I did a price search on this printer some places with higher
> prices showed a
> $50 mail-in rebate off of the $129.99 price. Some didn't.
> Maybe the lower price places are knocking off the rebate for you in advance.
> In the case of Best Buy, my experience has been closer to deceptive
> advertising.
> It is good to know about the $50 rebate going in the door.
>   

Very curious, Fry's has it on their outpost.com website for $69.99, but 
Fry's won't even match their own web site when in the store, so I'm not 
sure what their store price might now be.  The site says the print 
language is SPL (Samsung Printer Language) and that it uses host-based 
printing, but id does say it supports Linux.  $69 is hard to beat for a 
laser printer.  Anyone have any idea what kind of performance penalty 
this has on a linux box?  Do you still set it up as a Postscript printer?

Rodney