>I just talked to a friend of mine and he said he really likes the >laserwriter, i have never heard of this model. have any of you?
Depending on where you are in school, they could be much older than you are :) About the size of 4 toasters and 25lbs is a Personal Laserwriter NT or NTR; then they had a couple other biggish models, next there are some cute little 1.5- or 2-toaster Personal Laserwriters, the 300? or 600? or so is very well liked (I forget the model exactly, but I've set up a couple for people as shared group printers and they are nice. Any of the old Apple lasers would likely be a good find. Parts are available from www.fixyourownprinter.com for things like fuser, rollers, etc but cost a little ($20 to $50 depending). Yah, any of the Personal Laserwriters would be fine. If they have a toner cart in them you just hold down a button to get a test print; some problems are fixable yourself cheaply. Look at www.info.apple.com, then product specifications for older products, then pick the older laserwriters to get an idea of models that were made. Sure, laser will ALWAYS kick tail over inkjet for basic black/white text output, the toner cart is $40 or $50 perhaps but you get 3000 or more pages out of it; an inkjet cart (b/w) is still about $30 and you get maybe 500, usually less 'cos they dry up or get bubbles or whatever and you have to flush the head a lot. But lasers are harder to find on the cheap. The $1 or $5 Deskwriters, you just buy a couple for $10 if you are lucky and use it until it breaks. > now for some reason it will not format any disk, and now i lost my >document that i need for class tomorrow, sadly i don't have a really >old version of word for windows, i only have office 2000. hmm... try formatting the disk on the PC. Then use the PC Exchange or whatever on the Mac to just read it. It does not have to matter about office 2000 or whatever. You can just save your Mac Word document as text, and then open it on the PC and do whatever you need. My experience with converting is that I usually need to go thru and fix stuff anyway; might as well just save as text, and put everything in on the Windows side (bold, italics or whatever)- you're likely to have to fiddle with the thing anyway to get it to print properly. I gave up on the converter things ages ago, I always end up using formatting (super- or sub- script, or whatver) that just won't convert nicely. ASCII (plain text) always works as I expect. Luck, Brian -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
