13 Jun
2006
13 Jun
'06
6:26 a.m.
At 5:30 PM +1200 6/13/06, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On 6/13/06, Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org>
wrote:
That's about what I paid for my 5MP and I'm 3-4 months shy of having
owned it for 10 years. I'm on the 2nd or 3rd Toner cartridge. I
bought it because it spoke Postscript, a fact that has made it more
useful as time has passed.
I have an HP 4ML next to me that is a decade old
and prints(*) as well
as the day I bought it.
I bought a 4ML new, back in the day, for about $1100 - still works great. For lighter loads, though, I can recommend the 4ML.
Mine has
performed flawlessly for years with Amigas, Macs, PCs, and Sun boxes.
The only thing I can recommend as an accessory is a external networked
print server.
Mine has a Asante Ethertalk to Localtalk converter hooked up to it.
The Mac's print directly to that, everything else goes through my VMS
server to talk to it. One of these days I'm going to upgrade to a
better print server, in fact I just had an unused HP one give to me
(not sure how old it is). Main thing that's kept me from hooking up
one of the other external networked print servers I have (I have at
least two others), is that I can never remember where I put any of my
Parallel cables and when I can, I don't have the time (after all my
current solution works flawlessly).
Zane
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