ancient laserjets - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

16 Aug 2001

One PC to fill the buffer, print bridge from a pair of AS/400.
One secretary watching over it, then the night IS guy.

Y2K BS, we were printing every line of in-house code on
the machines.

Really got off on telling the IS veep we had three million lines
of legacy code tho.. Thought he was about to soil his Brooks
Brothers..

Jim

On Thursday, August 16, 2001 12:27 AM, Richard Erlacher 
[SMTP:edick@idcomm.com] wrote:
...
  It's good to know that some LJ3's hold up that
well.  If you pass the
 rated 8
 ppm through them you only have time time for 11520 sheets in 24  hours.
...

 7000/11520 is pretty busy, representing over 14.5 hours of constantly
 full
 utilization.  Somebody must have stood there to refill the tray while
 3-4
 computers kept the buffer full.  I'd say you were geting your money's
 worth
 during that timespan.

 I don't like the later laser printers either, though they don't cost
 as much as
 they once did.  I have an Okidata OL-1200 which emulates an HP4  pretty
...
  well, and
 prints a genuine 12 ppm at 600 DPI, and somewhat faster in text-only.
  It has
 the advantage that you can refill the toner reservoir yourself.

 Dick

 ----- Original Message -----
 From: "Jim Tuck" &lt;technos(a)crosswinds.net&gt;
 To: &lt;classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org&gt;
 Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 9:55 PM
 Subject: RE: ancient laserjets

 > Heh.. I once personally passed 7,000 sheets per day through a
 > III for four days straight. One jam, one swap of the cartridge, and
 > a quick swipe with a cleaning cloth to kill the dust.
 >
 > Greatest, most bullet-proof printer I've ever used, with a slight
 > exception for an old Pitney Bowes laser.. I still prefer them, to
 > the
 > point of refusing a HP4 in trade for it..
 >
 > Jim 