G'day everyone, We're in the market for a new laserprinter at home after our old second-hand Apple Laserwriter 16/600 started crashing our Netgear wireless basestation every time we turned the laser on and causing our house's power circuit to trip out every morning at 7am if we left it on overnight! (anyone ever experienced this after installing an RCD in your meter box? Frustrating)
Anyway, the Brother HL-5250DN Mono laser printer is looking pretty good. Does anyone know how well it works under Mac OS X? The specs say "Some functions are not available on PS2 and Mac Drivers" but I haven't yet found out any more details of what might be missing. If we can't do duplex printing for example, it won't be good. We notice the older Brother 5170DN may not support duplexing on the Mac (conflicting reports in a google groups thread) which has us concerned. The spec list looks decent: - Ethernet & High Speed USB 2.0 - Duplexing (automatic printing on both sides of a page) - 28ppm - 13ppm (when duplexing) - 1200 dpi native - Engine First Print Time < 8.5 sec - Mac OS X support (Bonjour, postscript emulation) - 32MB memory (upgradeable to 544MB) - 250 sheet bin - 3,500 or 7,000 page toner cartridge - 3,500 toner cart Aus$81 each And we can get it from Trinix for $436 (any good or bad experiences with Trinix? Better prices elsewhere?) Thanks for any thoughts. -Mart -------------------------------------- Martin Hill mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] homepages: http://mart.ozmac.com Mb: 0417-967-969 hm: (08)9314-5242
