For a good ole B&W Laser Printer get a LaserJet 5 (M/N/P) off eBay and spruce it up. Hard to beat the old ones for reliability.
Dee On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 22:35, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 19:28, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > Greetings list, > > > > It's official: my Epson Stylus Color 400 is dead after 6 years of faithful > > service. > > > > I'm in the market for a new printer and I would like some suggestions. > > Here are my parameters: > > > > - Laser printer (the inkjet has just been a money pit for the last year) > > - Reasonably priced (less than $500 is optimal) > > - Reasonably economical to operate (long term low cost per page printed) > > - Light use (will be connected to my home network) > > - Must have parallel interface (will connect to my Woody box which has no USB) > > - Speaks Postscript (I believe this makes it easier that I don't need drivers) > > - Small footprint desirable > > - Speed is not a concern (i.e., can print slow) > > > > I know this is OT, but I would like some suggestions since I haven't purchased > > a printer in 6 years and have never seriously looked at laser printers. Also, > > I run lprng on my Woody box and would like to keep it like that (since I > > finally figured out how it works), but I am willing to switch to CUPS if that > > is necessary. > > > > -Roberto Sanchez > > > > > > ___________________________________________________ > > Yahoo! Sorteos - http://loteria.yahoo.es > > Juega a la Loterķa Primitiva sin salir de casa > > Ghostscript should make any reasonably solid laser printer that doesn't > use some grotesquely obscure control system or Windows GDI appear to be > a PostScript printer, and it does that with PCL printers (most HP laser > printers) very well. A printer with PostScript is automatically going to > cost a chunk more as it requires a license for the PostScript > interpreter from Adobe (or a work-alike, often from QMS.) > > I've been running an HP 5L for some six years, and other than a paper > feed headache in its design, it has been solid, economical, easy to > configure and manage, and nicely compact, particularly compared to the > HP DeskJet that sits next to it for when I *must* see the colour on > paper. Toner cartridges are rated at 2500 pages but routinely print in > excess of 5000 for general home usage on primarily text. Unlike the > likely 25 cents or quarter of a Euro that a typical inkjet page costs to > produce, this thing works out to about 2 cents per page. > > That said, HP doesn't make the 5Ls themselves anymore, but the HP > LaserJet 1200 is largely the same market position (household and low > demand business) with a higher resolution but the same relatively low > price. The 1200 and its ilk have reverted to a paper feed similar to the > old HP LaserJet Series II, ensuring that each sheet is fed separately. > Prices run around the same as a mid-market inkjet printer and while the > toner cartridge is priced higher than replacement inkjet cartridges, the > toner lasts far, far longer, and there is often more opportunity to find > third-party toner cartridges that match. -- Dee McKinney Honor the Past, Live the Present, Plan for the Future. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
