10 May
2011
10 May
'11
1:10 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gene Buckle" <geneb at deltasoft.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: HP LJIIp and LJIIIp printers - get them working or dump them?
On Tue, 10 May 2011, Alexandre Souza - Listas wrote:
We've got some HP4000's at work that are great
workhorses.
That and I can change the READY message to things like, "OUT OF CHEESE" or
"INSERT 25 CENTS". The look on people's faces is just priceless. :)
I'm really looking forward to the day I figure out how to make the Ricoh
copy center show a pong game on the LCD display. :D
g.
I have a nice HP 4si in the basement where it will pretty much stay forever
(you need 2 people to move it). Very nice printer for its age with all the
decent interfaces of the era installed (Apple, parallel, ethernet,
tokenring). All I am missing is the duplexer. Postscript printers were nice
to have in the 1990's. I also managed to get a new HP toner for it on ebay
for something like $11 shipped a few years back, which is better then using
old toners that were repeatedly refilled and leave streaks. I have spare
rollers and fusers so it will last till I get bored of it.
I want to
say we had 200k pages on it, and only replaced it because the
newer printers were faster and had more memory (could handle more
complex documents, like big pdfs)
200K+ pages has mine HP4Plus. With me. Because its counter is in 700K+
range.
I do love my HP4Plus :)