On 01/11/2010 11:14 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > It bears mentioning that HP's printer division does not manufacture the > printers that they sell. Most lasers are made by Canon, although I > think some of the recent models are from Okidata. I think Okidata also > makes most of their inkjets, but I've less familiar with those. > > The older Canon lasers are indestructible. And HP sold gazillions of > them, so after-market parts and recycled stuff is available cheaply. > amen - i have a > 15-yr-old LJ 5MP Postscript that keeps cranking out the pages. The toner cartridges are darned cheap on a per-page basis compared to the inkjet cartridges. Works great with the Foomatic/Postscript & CUPS+Gutenprint drivers in Ubuntu 9.10. PDFs tend to fail to print with the "recommended" driver. > When I added a recommendation for the Printer Place in SE Portland I > should have added a couple other places: > > http://www.fixyourownprinter.com/ > > and > > http://www.printerworks.com/ the first site wasn't much help when i first searched it, i'll give the other a look.
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