![]() However I must say that I, for one, am much happier with modern HP machines, where a neatly printed sheet of paper emerges within a few short seconds of clicking "print" than any of the lumbering antiques that morons like yourself seem to have always worshiped as time marches on. And most printers these days are so inexpensive that a direct comparison to the products of old is useless anyway. $3,900! Holy fuck, batman! No wonder it got 1.2 million pages out before it got kicked to the curb. Do I miss that durable, old workhorse printer? Fuck no! It was slow, it was noisy, it was expensive to power, it had lousy output even when it was working properly, it was way heavy, it always did smell funny when printing, and it was hard to work on! It was pretty reliable, of course, but that doesn't make up for the fact that it was generally a lousy fucking printer.Īnd it was expensive when it was new: $2,395 list, in 1990 dollars.which accounting for inflation, is something like $3,900 in 2008. Some are not.Ī couple of years back, I retired an HP Laserjet III due to power supply problems, after it had printed something like 1.2 million pages over more than 16 years. The new ones are all flimsy and hard to work on and break down all the time."Įxcept, now that we've in Teh Future, the heavy 5-year-old printers you're reminiscing so fondly of today about were yesterday's new-product, flimsy HP garbage. I remember back 5 or 10, maybe even 15 years years ago: Lots of folks sounded just like you do now. I've not had such problems with the HP printers in my lab (again, with 25k pages per year at work). The Dell prints great at first, but altogether too quickly, the output becomes shoddy. My wife and I have a Dell 1710 printer at home, that's a B&W non-duplex model made by Lexmark, and I'm waiting for it to die to replace it with an HP equivalent. Even if, like most, your printing is primarily black-and-white, you'll be replacing the K (black) cartridge quite often, because for a given size printer, the four carts for color reproduction (CMYK, cyan, magenta, yellow, black) hold less than 1/4 the amount of toner each as the single K cartridge in a B&W printer. You should expect to start paying 3-4x the money because you'll be buying 4 times as many cartridges. From time to time HP has trade-in bonus programs where you send them an old printer and get money back, when you buy one of their new ones.īut, if you elect to go the color route, be prepared for sticker shock on the toner. If you get a used one, the most important thing to watch for is the number of pages on the print path, and try to find one with less than 10k. You can get off-lease units on eBay for not too much, or wait for one of the sales at tech stores. ![]() The newest ones (like the 2055d and related B&W laser printers) are pretty small, too. Printers made with an anticipated lifetime of over 100k pages. HP's entry business-level stuff is GREAT. Many people use aftermarket toner for that reason. HP's consumer-level stuff is reasonably well-made, but ends up being very expensive in toner. I've bought a handful of printers (4 total) to do some medium-duty printing (25k pages per year). Try to get a midrange one with a network connection and PostScript Level3, and you should hopefully be set. I realize things have changed, but I still stick by HP laser printers. ![]() ![]() #Hp laserjet p2015dn driver for osx seriesCan anyone recommend a brand or series of printers that is built to last and isn't going to be completely dependent on OS specific proprietary drivers?" #Hp laserjet p2015dn driver for osx windowsMost of all, I would like it to still be usable and running well with Windows 9, OS X 11, and whatever else we will be using in 2020. I'd rather get a smaller, personal-size printer than a heavy workgroup printer. A new color laser printer with postscript 3 seems like a logical replacement, and numerous inexpensive printers are available. Since it supported postscript Level II, it wasn't bound to a specific operating system or hardware platform, so long as a basic postscript level 2 driver was available. First, it's sturdily built and hails from an era when every fraction of a penny didn't have to be cost-cut out of manufacturing. I believe it's done so well for two reasons. It's printed over 30,000 pages and survived a half-dozen long-distance moves without giving me any trouble. ![]() The Optimizer writes "After 16 years of service, my laser printer, a NEC Silentwriter 95, is finally wearing its internals out, and I need to find a replacement. ![]()
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