On 3/4/10 8:53 AM, [email protected] wrote:
On Mar 2, 12:30 pm, Bill Spencer<[email protected]> wrote:
In the used market, the HP Laserjet 4M and 4M Plus are highly
regarded. Similarly (but slightly less so) for the LaserJet 5M. I'm
a fan of the LaserJet 2100TN. In every case, the postscript module
is on a SIMM (or DIMM) and the ethernet port is on an expansion card,
so when buying in the used market, you need to make sure the needed
options are actually installed. The corollary is that the 4, 4 Plus,
5 and plain old 2100 might have the postscript module and ethernet
module installed.
We had two 4MVs that lasted for 10+ years with moderately heavy use.
Additionally IIRC for postscript you needed more than the base memory
(8Mb?).
The color laser printers have fallen in price a lot. So depending on
your budget ("won't break the bank" is so subjective) you might
consider a color laser printer. I picked up the Kyocera EPS C170N
(postscript and ethernet built in) for $200 shipped two holiday
seasons ago. The Xerox Phaser 6180 was about $50 more and there was
a Brother model in a similar price/feature point. However, the
Kyocera listed Appletalk as a supported protocol (as opposed to only
TCP/IP) so I chose it so I'd have support for older Macs which might
have trouble printing to TCP/IP.
While it's true that color laser printers have four toner cartridges
and it is expensive to replace all four, if you primarily print in
black, then you only need to replace the black cartridge frequently.
So, assuming similarly priced toner cartridges, the color laser is no
more expensive to operate for simple black printing.
Watch the consumables. Even the black toner carts for color printers
can be pricey.
One of the color printers we had was GCC. It worked well enough
(although there was a weird problem printing to it via AppleTalk) but
the only source for consumables was GCC and they were frequently back
ordered. As far as I could tell the printer was made by Xerox but I was
never able to find what Xerox toner carts would fit the GCC.
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