RE: Which Laser Printer for FreeBSD

2004-09-19 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tim Aslat Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2004 9:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can usually pick these units up at auction for around the $20 mark, or sometimes less. Mine came with a second paper tray

Re: Which Laser Printer for FreeBSD

2004-09-18 Thread Robert Huff
Matt Emmerton writes: If you look around, you can find old LaserJets that are being dumped when they're still perfectly fine (and usually come with a full toner cartridge too). Speaking of toner - check out the price and capacity of replacement cartridges. If the cost for a

RE: Which Laser Printer for FreeBSD

2004-09-18 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Go buy a HP Laserjet 4M+ that's used. For starters the things are indestructible you might have to do a feed roller replacement at 50,000 prints, but other than that you just keep putting toner and paper in it. They are dirt cheap used and the remanufactured toner cartridges for them are also

Re: Which Laser Printer for FreeBSD

2004-09-18 Thread Tim Aslat
In the immortal words of Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Go buy a HP Laserjet 4M+ that's used. For starters the things are indestructible you might have to do a feed roller replacement at 50,000 prints, but other than that you just keep putting toner and paper in it. They are dirt

Re: Which Laser Printer for FreeBSD

2004-09-17 Thread Volker Kindermann
Hi Martin, I'm planning to buy a new printer, because the results with my Canon S500 are total crap. I guess a laser printer is the best choice for Unix, and I'm wondering which one I should buy. if possible, take a printer with native postscript. That'll make things much easier. -volker

Re: Which Laser Printer for FreeBSD

2004-09-17 Thread Chris Hill
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Martin Moeller wrote: I'm planning to buy a new printer, because the results with my Canon S500 are total crap. I guess a laser printer is the best choice for Unix, and I'm wondering which one I should buy. I thought about the HP Laserjet 6L or something in this category. Any

Re: Which Laser Printer for FreeBSD

2004-09-17 Thread Robert Huff
Chris Hill writes: I thought about the HP Laserjet 6L or something in this category. Any advice? The two HP LaserJets I've had were both excellent - no problems at all, good results, easy to set up. The LaserJet series have an excellent and long-standing record for

Re: Which Laser Printer for FreeBSD

2004-09-17 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Martin Moeller wrote: I'm planning to buy a new printer, because the results with my Canon S500 are total crap. I guess a laser printer is the best choice for Unix, and I'm wondering which one I should buy. I thought about the HP Laserjet 6L or something in this category.

Re: Which Laser Printer for FreeBSD

2004-09-17 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:08 AM -0600 9/17/04, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Martin Moeller wrote: I guess a laser printer is the best choice for Unix, and I'm wondering which one I should buy. I thought about the HP Laserjet 6L or something in this category. Avoid the 5L and 6L, as they have failure-prone

Re: Which Laser Printer for FreeBSD

2004-09-17 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Friday 17 September 2004 08:40 am, Martin Moeller wrote: I'm planning to buy a new printer, because the results with my Canon S500 are total crap. I guess a laser printer is the best choice for Unix, and I'm wondering which one I should buy. I'm using an HP LaserJet 1200 with an additional

Re: Which Laser Printer for FreeBSD

2004-09-17 Thread Matt Emmerton
- Original Message - From: Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2004 1:04 AM Subject: Re: Which Laser Printer for FreeBSD On Friday 17 September 2004 08:40 am, Martin Moeller wrote: I'm planning to buy a new printer, because the results