>In answering your question regarding my HP Laserjet, it is a 4M+, and >the JetDirect card is missing, as well as the cartridge. It was cheap, >ok ? Where the JetDirect would have been is a big gaping slot, have you >priced those things, expensive, even for a refurbished. Thus the D-Link.
My opinion, grab the 4 series any way you can take them. They are GREAT work horses (I have 3 myself, two 4+ and a 4 all of them have been converted into M series units). I haven't found the JetDirect cards to be too expensive on ebay. I've bought a few of them over the years. I don't think I ever paid more than $40 which puts it in line with the DLink price. Although I happen to like the JetDirect because it installs nice and cleanly into the printer, I've also used DLink print servers before, and they do everything the JetDirect does. I can't say I have anything negative to say about the DLink units. Only real downside is they aren't controllable via the front panel buttons on the printer (although I rarely use those to config a JetDirect card anyway as that is much harder then using the HP JetDirect software on a PC or Mac). >Regarding the simms, I put in a 10-mb stick right after I got it. I had >used it alot when it was connected to i386-based Linux box, now that I >have switched over to the iMac, I still want to use the Laserjet. The key is, is there a Postscript SIMM installed. HP sold memory chips that included the postscript language on the chip. If this is an M unit, then the simm had been installed. If the JetDirect card was removed, that simm might have been as well. You can get a postscript simm on ebay. I've seen those run the range of prices. I bought one for $1.00 and another for $30. I've seen them higher. If you were going to use it on a Mac running the Mac OS 9 or earlier, you'd really want the postscript SIMM, but running Linux, it may or may not be important enough (and with OS X it probably isn't all that important since OS X will talk to that series printers via PCL just fine). Like I said in the other email, if you print the test page on the printer (Menu Button until the front panel says Test Menu, then Item button until it says Self Test then Enter button). That test page will tell you if Postscript is installed or not. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
