On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Ted Roche <tedro...@tedroche.com> wrote: >> But ultimately, I hate ink jets for anything other than photo >> printing. It doesn't help that most ink jet printers on the market >> are incredibly cheap crap. >> > Slightly less crappy are the business-class machines.
I've heard that before, after too many bad experiences with them, I don't believe it. Maybe it was true in the past, maybe it's true for selected models, but as a general rule, it's bunk. "Do you feel lucky, punk?" I suspect they would be okay under very occasional use, but then you have trouble with ink drying and clogging the works, as has been mentioned. Maybe there's a sweet spot where you print just often enough to keep the mechanism from fouling, but don't strain the incredibly cheap build. Like exactly one page a day or something. Full disclosure: My opinion is colored by having to attempt to fix way too many crap printers in my career. I miss the HP LaserJet's of old. Circa 2003, I had a customer who had an HP LaserJet II still in service, humming away after more than a decade. It was slower than hell but met their needs, and you can't kill the thing short of a wooden stake. LaserJet 4's with more than a million pages on their counter are (or were) common. These days, you're lucky to get 5% of that on most models. And get off my lawn! -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/