Re: "home" laser printer recommendation.

[Peter Hinchliffe]

On 30/04/2004, at 1:18 PM, Mark Secker wrote:

Does anybody have a recommendation (or from the retailers on list - a 
quote) for a small home laser printer - my experience is more office 
printer orientated. I have an academic user who requires a home laser 
printer to replace her now obsolete Apple Laserwriter 4/600 and she's 
looking for a USB or (preferable) ethernet laser printer of small 
dimensions (and preferably "short vertical height wise top to bottom). 
I must admit I have a personal interest in this as my own home laser 
printer is on it's last legs so will be looking to buy one for my self 
as well.





Have a look at the Samsung ML-1710. It has a 250-sheet paper drawer, 
comes with MacOS X drivers, and is available for under $400. Get back 
me to for more details.


--
Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services
FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
Perth, Western Australia
Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913

Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to.

Re: "home" laser printer recommendation.

[Paul Mulroney]

Does anybody have a recommendation (or from the retailers on list - a
quote) for a small home laser printer



I personally recommend Brother, I have one here in my home office that
has replaced an HP 4L,


I chose a HL 1440 as it has a high capacity toner unit (6000 standard 
A4
pages for ~$119) and the drum does ~ 20,000 pages for ~$229. The 
printer

cost me $699, but I believe it has dropped to ~$500.

For one with network look at the HL1430 at a RRP of $499 is a good buy,
it has USB and Parallel interface, and has software for OsX.


The Brothers are good laser printers - I have a HL1240.  USB only, but 
if all the machines on the network are OSX (or all OS9), you can share 
the printer.  I concur that you get excellent mileage on the drums and 
toner - excellent value for money.


Harris Technologies sell a Samsung brand printer that looks 
suspiciously like the brother for a lot cheaper.  Might be worth 
investigating.


Regards,
Paul.
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Paul W. Mulroney
Logical Developments

[EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street
www.logicaldevelopments.com.au  BENTLEY  WA  6102
Ph: +61 8 9458 3889   ICQ# 154484472Fax: +61 8 9458 7204

Re: "home" laser printer recommendation.

[Vladimir James]

I've been using a GCC Elite 12/1200 for over a year on both Classic and
OSX without a hitch. Cost a bit under $2000. Worth checking out.

 

- Mark Secker wrote ---

Does anybody have a recommendation (or from the retailers on list - a 
quote) for a small home laser printer - my experience is more office 
printer orientated. I have an academic user who requires a home laser 
printer to replace her now obsolete Apple Laserwriter 4/600 and she's 
looking for a USB or (preferable) ethernet laser printer of small 
dimensions (and preferably "short vertical height wise top to 
bottom). I must admit I have a personal interest in this as my own 
home laser printer is on it's last legs so will be looking to buy one 
for my self as well.

--- snipped -

Vlad James

Re: "home" laser printer recommendation.

[Craig Ringer]

> > Does anybody have a recommendation (or from the retailers on list - a 
> > quote) for a small home laser printer - my experience is more office 
> > printer orientated. I have an academic user who requires a home laser 
> > printer to replace her now obsolete Apple Laserwriter 4/600 and she's 
> > looking for a USB or (preferable) ethernet laser printer of small 
> > dimensions (and preferably "short vertical height wise top to 
> > bottom). I must admit I have a personal interest in this as my own 
> > home laser printer is on it's last legs so will be looking to buy one 
> > for my self as well.

Computer Angels will have some HP 4-series printers for sale at our next
surplus sale. All printers have been tested, but come with absolutely no
warranty of any kind. The printers all come with a toner cart installed,
but the carts are not new. The printers are $250 each, and while they
don't come with JetDirect network cards the cards are available from
eBay etc quite cheap.

Parts are still available from HP for the 4M series printers, they're
amazingly reliable, and the toner carts aren't "chipped" so refills can
be used. Additionally, they take standard Fast Page memory, so you can
get extra memory for them quite easily. In fact, if you have an old 486
PC at home the memory might be compatible. The 4M series are also easy
to service yourself if you need to - as I should know, having repaired 8
or so of them recently.

I don't have the exact date on me right now, but I can get more details
if anybody is interested. Just contact me off-list.

All funds go to support the training and computer literacy services
provided by Computer Angels. See http://www.computerangels.org.au/ for
more information. 

We still don't have a definite date on the next door sale.

Craig Ringer
(CA president)

RE: "home" laser printer recommendation.

[Mark Secker]

For one with network look at the HL1430 at a RRP of $499 is a good buy,
it has USB and Parallel interface, and has software for OsX.


this looks like the one to go with  - Ethernet is not critical as the 
printer can be shared between the two macs rather than be networked 
it's self


also current RRP is now $449


--
~
Mark Secker Computer Support Officer
ph#6488 1855 (ECEL) 
University of Western Australia - CRICOS Provider No. 00126G
~
"Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible."
- Miguel de Unamuno
"It takes an idiot to do cool things that's why it's cool"
- Haruhara Haruka (FLCL)

 (sometimes works)

RE: "home" laser printer recommendation.

[Kathy Quinlan]

> -Original Message-
> From: WAMUG Mailing List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
> Behalf Of Mark Secker
> Sent: Friday, 30 April 2004 1:19 PM
> To: WAMUG Mailing List
> Subject: "home" laser printer recommendation.
> 
> 
> Does anybody have a recommendation (or from the retailers on list - a 
> quote) for a small home laser printer - my experience is more office 
> printer orientated. I have an academic user who requires a home laser 
> printer to replace her now obsolete Apple Laserwriter 4/600 and she's 
> looking for a USB or (preferable) ethernet laser printer of small 
> dimensions (and preferably "short vertical height wise top to 
> bottom). I must admit I have a personal interest in this as my own 
> home laser printer is on it's last legs so will be looking to buy one 
> for my self as well.

Hmmm the USB or ethernet rules out most cheap ones.

I personally recommend Brother, I have one here in my home office that
has replaced an HP 4L, when I do a design (like USB products, I like to
print out the specs so I can read away from the computer etc (over 1000
pages between USB 1.0,2.0 and USB OTG)) so when my 4L decided to run out
of toner (I had already epoxed a stripped cog back on) and was having
problems printing PDF's with only 2Mb of RAM, I started looking around.
I chose a HL 1440 as it has a high capacity toner unit (6000 standard A4
pages for ~$119) and the drum does ~ 20,000 pages for ~$229. The printer
cost me $699, but I believe it has dropped to ~$500.

For one with network look at the HL1430 at a RRP of $499 is a good buy,
it has USB and Parallel interface, and has software for OsX.

Regards,

Kat.

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"home" laser printer recommendation.

[Mark Secker]

Does anybody have a recommendation (or from the retailers on list - a 
quote) for a small home laser printer - my experience is more office 
printer orientated. I have an academic user who requires a home laser 
printer to replace her now obsolete Apple Laserwriter 4/600 and she's 
looking for a USB or (preferable) ethernet laser printer of small 
dimensions (and preferably "short vertical height wise top to 
bottom). I must admit I have a personal interest in this as my own 
home laser printer is on it's last legs so will be looking to buy one 
for my self as well.




--
~
Mark Secker Computer Support Officer
ph#6488 1855 (ECEL) 
University of Western Australia - CRICOS Provider No. 00126G
~
"Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible."
- Miguel de Unamuno
"It takes an idiot to do cool things that's why it's cool"
- Haruhara Haruka (FLCL)

 (sometimes works)