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My last Pantum P2502W<\/a> printer gave out last week and I immediately started the dreaded search for a new printer. I had actually purchased three of them @ Newegg Business<\/a> 10\/11 years ago, one at first<\/u><\/i>, and then two more after I saw how well it worked. They were on sale for about $25 each, each printer came wid a “700-page starter cartridge,” and I was looking for a printer wid high Page Yields<\/a> <\/b>– ‘Page yield is the approximate number of pages you can print with one cartridge.<\/i>‘<\/p>\n I had grown tried of buying replacement cartridges at around $27-40+ each, depending on if it was a Black or Color cartridge. Page yields were closer to 120 pages for those cartridges; however, lack of page yield wasn’t the only problem, i.e., those small cartridges often clogged up for lack of use!?! Cheap printers wid expensive replacement cartridges \u2013 what a gimmick! Before the Mono Pantum, I had spent more on cartridges than printers…far more, and I didn’t really print a lot!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n As each Pantum ran out of ink, I threw it away ‘n started using a new one, and those three “700-page” starter cartridges lasted until the third printer gave out last week. Best printer deal I ever got…to date, anyway<\/i>. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Second ‘Thang<\/i> I was looking for in a printer, was if it had Linux drivers, and the Pantum offered just Ubuntu drivers. Back then, Ubuntu & Puppy Linux were my secondary OSes to Windows, so those three printers were definitely the best printer deal I’ll ever get<\/b><\/u>. They also worked later wid Debian\/Ubuntu-based OSes like Mint ‘n then Sparky Linux as I moved back ‘n forth from Ubuntu.<\/p>\n