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
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 Laser Printer for FreeBSD Hi all

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

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

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