I was shopping for an affordable color laser printer and had narrowed my choices to the Kyocera EP C170N ($200 @ buy.com & Amazon.com), Xerox Phaser 8190 ($250 @ Staples last week, perhaps again before the new year) and the Brother HL-4070CDW ($300 at Newegg but has duplexer). They all have postscript or emulation and built-in ethernet so I figured that Mac support was workable even if I have to fall back to a generic postscript driver.
However, towards the end of my comparison I realized that only the Kyocera has AppleTalk as one of its supported protocols. The others are limited to TCP/IP. So when did printing over TCP/IP become available. In other words, how much of a limitation is the lack of AppleTalk support for those of us keeping older Macs in use? P.S. I wasn't really able to make a meaningful comparison of print quality nor consumables costs. There just don't seem to be any reviews of the Kyocera available, so unless I hunt one down in a store I have no info on print quality. For consumables, I can divide pages per toner cartridge into price per toner cartridge, but apparently what the manufacturer says a toner cartridge will deliver often bears little resemblance to reality. So, if anyone has any insight into these last two characteristics of those three printers, please chime in. (Customer) Reviews I've read of the Xerox 6180 seem to say that the print quality is good, but the toner consumption may be high. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
