I had a Brother and noticed a slight dimming of lights when first switch on so it seemed to drawing a lot of power in my mind. Cartridge ran out of ink and cost was more than for a new printer so I bought a HP 1018 works great, lights stay on and replacement cartridge $58.00.
JohnB On 3/20/2011 9:29 PM, Walter Knopf wrote: > Roy, > > here is my take, some might disagree, but it has served me well. > My wife bought a Brother laser printer for less than $90. If you can live > with black and white > prints, this is a nice machine (I bought the color version for about $340), > make sure the driver > works for your OS if you want to share it on a network, no problem if it is > hooked up to your > machine. Networking printers is a beach based on XP, Vista, Win7. > I have two perfectly good ink jet printers, free to anyone that wants them. > My problem is that > they dry up and you need two new cartridges every six months, at the cost of > about $72, more > than the original cost of the printer. You need to run an ink jet printer at > least once a month to > prevent this from happening, not always possible, since I switch locations > and the printer might > not be used for two months. None of those problems with a laser printer, > just shake it. :) > > Walter > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of S/V Sarks > Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2011 8:35 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Liveaboard] Energy Efficient Printers... > > Hello Listees, > > I'm in the market for a new printer. > Any hands-on recommendations for an energy efficient, low cost per page, > printer ? > > Cheers ! > Roy > _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
