Cool! I use a HP LaserJet 2100tn at home. got it for free, it was broken.... found a piece of case plastic in the toner cart roller. pulled it out and it worked great.... for a couple of years any how. I'm sure it got a quite a bit of use in it's past life, prints are getting degraded now, leftover toner from previous prints ends up on the next couple of pages. can hardly see it when printing just text, but if an image is in there it gets bad.
anyone know what's wrong with it? worth fixing? thinking a LaserJet CP2025dn might be a good replacement if it comes to that. It'd be nice to do color prints (I've got a 2.5 year old, so I'd like to print those preschool activity page type things in color). At work we've got a HP 8100dn and a 6MP that have been chugging along for quite a while, never broken, ever. -sam > > I'm surprised nobody's mentioned HP yet. Maybe it's because their > recent consumer models are a far cry from their venerable Laserjets. > > I print a lot of text, and use a Kodak kiosk at a supermarket for > occasional photos, so I got a used HP laser printer (no color), the > Laserjet 2200d. (The "d" means duplexing. The 2200 prints one side > only.) I use it with a PC, but there are postscript drivers for it for > OS X, OS 9, and probably earlier. It probably was an office machine > made for use by a small workgroup. It's not hard for one reasonably > strong person to carry, easier than a 17" CRT monitor. > > The older HP's are very durable and inexpensive as used models (people > often give away ones in very good condition around here), and the > toner cartridges tend to hold more toner than the later consumer > models. That makes them cost a lot less per page. Someone gave me a > Laserjet 5mp, which has postscript, a parallel port, and an older > round Apple Talk port, but no USB. > > HP isn't particularly known for its color laser printers, but their > better monochrome Laserjets have an excellent reputation and last > forever. Their recent consumer stuff isn't known for durability or low > cost per page. > > Most of the Laserjets with a good reputation use a Canon printing > engine. For instance, the Canon LBP-32X engine is in all of these > printers: > > Canon LBP-1000 > Canon LBP-32X > Canon P 100 > HP LaserJet 2100 > HP LaserJet 2100m > HP LaserJet 2100se > HP LaserJet 2100tn > HP LaserJet 2100xi > HP LaserJet 2200d > HP LaserJet 2200dn > HP LaserJet 2200dt > HP LaserJet 2200dtn > HP LaserJet 2210 > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
