26 Jan
2009
26 Jan
'09
7:44 p.m.
On 26 Jan 2009 at 13:53, Dave McGuire wrote:
Indeed, those are amazing printers. My mother has
a 4MPlus that I
just decommissioned; it finally started to wear out, with about a
million prints on the page counter. I bought it used and pretty beat
up from a surplus dealer in ~1998, it saw daily duty in a small
office printing stuff for about five people for several years, then
it was stored in a very hot storage locker for about four years, and
then it spent two years printing a LOT of stuff for my mother's
business. It just never gave up!
I've got a couple of old Panasonic lasers (KX-P4450i (PCL) and KX-
P4455 (PS)); circa early 1990s. Heavy battleship construction;
separate toner (i.e. out of a bottle, no cartridges). They keep
going and going--but lately I've been using the cheap ($100 on a good
day) Brother lasers. Great print quality, miserly toner usage (and
easy to refill carts) and they don't dim the lights when the fuser
comes on. After 3 years on my "short" HL-4050 cartridge with the
toner lamp blinking, I finally refilled it with toner I bought 2
years ago.
Problem now is what to do with old Panasonics--they use Moto 68K
processors internally and have a great deal of nice mechanical
components--and AppleTalk interfaces as well as serial and parallel.
Probably recycle them, I guess. No inclination to fool with the
innards.
I'd love to find a good deal on an HP LJ 5si. That 11x17 print
format would come in handy.
Cheers,
Chuck