RE: Which Laser Printer for FreeBSD

2004-09-18 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 pap

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

RE: Which Laser Printer for FreeBSD

2004-09-18 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
a $1000 printer that was designed for low page counts, for a low cost initial price. Ted > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Martin Moeller > Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 6:40 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Which L

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

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

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 addition

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 p

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. Avoid

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

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 a

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

Which Laser Printer for FreeBSD

2004-09-17 Thread Martin Moeller
Hi all, 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 advice? Thanks! Martin __