On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 08:47:16PM -0800, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
On Feb 13, 2008 10:15 AM, George Geller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My HP 1210 is OK, but the ink is expensive and it won't print on card
stock because it doesn't have a straight paper path.
I'm looking for a cheap color printer that will print on card stock.
Some of the Epsons look suitable.
You know, if you had said "color" and "print on card stock" in the
beginning, it would have saved a lot of speculative dialog.
I know of two varieties of mono laser printers that have
straight-through paper paths. One of them is the NeXT printer, which
has succumbed to obsolescence. The other is HP LaserJet 4 and family,
which can have the back door opened to create a straight paper path.
LJ4's are still hanging around on the used printer market, and the
toner cartridges are pretty cheap per page. But they aren't color.
I have an old HP4500 color laser printer, which I have printed on fairly
heavy card stock with. The paper path is largely straight, with about a
60-degree bend in the manual feed, and a straight exit path out of the
back.
Unfortunately, it doesn't put anything but smudge marks on the paper any
more. I'd be willing to give it to someone if they were: 1. willing to get
it, and, well, actually I don't care if it can be made to work. At one
point, I could make it print by just wiggling things, so I suspect that the
contacts on the transfer belt aren't good or something like that. It would
also need to be cleaned up to get rid of the spilled toner (causing the
smudges).
Dave
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