On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, John Perkins wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 13:25:21 +0200
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > We have about twelve HP-4550DN series Laserprinters that needs to be
> > replaced. I was just wondering if you guys would share any
experiences
> > with new HP's or any other brand in the sense of do or don't or must
> or
> > must (absolutely) not as far as compatibility or operational issues
> are
> > concerned.
>
> We've got one Lanier LP020c (a Ricoh Aficio CL2000N rebadged). We've
> run
> into problems with this printer flat out crashing every 3-5 days, even
> if it doesn't print anything. When it's running, it prints ok,
although
>
> it won't accept transparency media from the paper trays. We find that
> "feature" a little irritating, but the printer crashing--locking up
with
> a service code on the display, no response over the network--is an
> issue.
We just replaced one Lanier with another (the lease expired after 3
years). Judging by the drivers, both the old and new printers are really
Ricoh printers. We don't use our printer a lot, and it does not support
Postscript, but has been good, with 2 exceptions:
1. It can't re-size A4 print jobs to Letter size, so we keep finding
that
the printer is waiting for someone to load A4 paper, queuing up all
other
print jobs.
2. The Windows PCL6 drivers don't work in landscape mode. If you want to
use landscape, you have to either:
a) send postscipt to a print filter that creates PCL
b) use the windows PCL5e drivers.
Other than those two issues, the Lanier printer has been fine.
Simon
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