26 Jan
2009
26 Jan
'09
10:53 a.m.
On Jan 26, 2009, at 11:38 AM, Alexandre Souza 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!
Anyway, it started needing more and more attention recently; it
seems it was just wearing out. I got her an HP 8100DN (like mine)
>> I
found a nearly-unused 4L at the
>> nearby thrift store yesterday. It printed the test page without a
>> burp... and (I) walked out a happy customer $6 later.
I don't see too much value on these all-plastic-printers. I have
a 4Plus (now 4MPlus, added postscript and tens of megabytes of ram,
and also a jetdirect) for YEARS and it is still going strong. I do
love my printer :) All-steel and very durable construction :D from another surplus dealer, and she loves it. It is
every bit as
well-constructed as the 4MPlus, and a fantastic performer.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL