25 Jul
2006
25 Jul
'06
5:16 p.m.
I use LJ2s and 4s. I used to use only the LJ original but they became
to rare. I work in a thrift shop as a volunteer and we have them come
thru all the time and sell them for $5. If they are working I stack
them in the garage and if they are not I remove the cartridge and
sometimes the innards and store them. The LJ2 and the original LJ
make the best printing I have seen from ANY printer and it almost
looks like and old fashioned offset printer output even has a raised
feel to it that you can feel. And at $5 a piece I can afford to stack
them and when one screws up I pitch it.
OTOH....I have an HP1600 color printer/scanner/copier that wasnt worth
$5 the day I bought it new. The ink is expensive the printer often
doesnt recognise the cartridge and even when I dont need
ink...scanning...it wont let it work unless I have ink in it. What a
waste of technology. Currently it isnt recognising the color ink
module so I will be pitching it into the trash tomorrow after less
than 300 copies.
On 7/25/06, Don Y <dgy at dakotacom.net> wrote:
Chuck Guzis wrote:
--
Jim Isbell
"If you are not living on the edge, well then,
you are just taking up too much space."
On 7/25/2006 at 4:17 PM Don Y wrote:
I don't think it makes sense unless you have big-time printing
needs. Without looking very hard, you can find working laser
printers (especially HP's) headed for the trash almost every
week (and I'm not in a particularly *good* location for
surplus materials!). They're *so* commonplace that it is
hardly worth the time to repair them -- unless it's a simple
"swap-out-the-fuser" type of repair. Just move it aside
and put another in it's place.
I've given away 3 LJ4's in the past year just because they're
not worth the space to store them! (Annoying that their RAM
requirements differ from the 4+).
I've been offered two Phasers in the past 6 months and just
can't justify that much color printing to set aside that
much floorspace :>
A pair of LJ5L's (?) will join the pile as
soon as their
toner cartridges run out (they're really "toy" printers only
useful for one-off printing) -- which will hopefully be BEFORE
they develop pick problems!
Unless it's a high-volume duplex printer or something really special, does
it makes sense to buy a used laser printer? (As I said, I've got a couple
of Panasonic KXP-4450/4455's from before 1990 still grinding away, but I'm
the original owner). Sitting on my desk next to me, I've got a Brother
4050 that I paid $100 new for two years ago--still on its first cartridge,
which is supposed to be a "half capacity" model. At that price, I can just
about afford to buy a new one when the toner runs out...