On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Jim Trocki wrote: JT> Well, I've found the Sharp AR-651 and AR-507 have essentially broken JT> PJL support, at least for what I would like to use it for, which is
I was talking about SNMP support, not PJL though. JT> And which models tested out favorably? What are your requirements, JT> and what is your application? HP 4300 and Xerox 4400DT fitted our price range and had good SNMP implementation. The HP failed against the Xerox on two accounts, it was too plastic (had too many moving parts for no reason and external duplex unit that could easily be stolen) and it had a hideous web interface. Our requirement were 150,000 ppm, Postscript 3 (true Adobe preferly, not emulation), and rugged to fit in a student/research environment. The other nice thing with Xerox is that they license a true Adobe Postscript engine. HPs emulation has been to fail on a lot of PS files. With the extra hard drive (see below) you get all the 130+ PS3 recommended fonts (this includes the common Windows ones). (HP also complained after one month that they wanted their printer back, so that became a small minus in their protocol, bad customer relations. Xerox on the other hand delivered all kinds of modelsm for testing, free paper and toner to test with and free pre-buy technical support channel.) JT> The consumables cost is relatively high, though. One toner cart is rated JT> for 30k pages at 2% coverage and lists for about 250USD. So far the We pay about 160 Euro for a high-cap 15000 pages at 5% toner cartridges for the Xerox 4400. We change toner cartridges about every 3rd day in every printer. Our coverage is at average 4%. JT> capacity. It also requires a fuser maintenance kit at 350k pages, which JT> costs about $360. We got 3 years on location service with fusers included (changed about every other month) in the price we paid for each 4400DT (with extra font hard drive). Our price was about 2600 Euro per printer. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
