OT: Printer question

I can't specifically speak to the HP staple option but every other one I have seen was faaaar more troublesome than it was worth.

Personally, I'd go e-bay hopping and pick up an older HP that is still in good shape. The large format laserjet 5si works flawlessly for me and you can start adding all thegoodies like duplex and giant paper trays by shopping more e-bay. The boards as well as the HP ethernet interface cards come up at very good prices as well. If anything goes wrong, it's cheap and easy (paid 20 bucks for a new formatter board including memory and postscript chip...originally had a bad board that interfered with the ethernet interface only) These things are built the good ol american way..like tanks.

For a desktop machine, the ol 6mp is still working flawlessly also...getting on 10 years old. These are also all over e-bay. One nice thing about the 6mp is that it seems to last forever on a toner change. We print thousands of pages (so many I can't even keep track) before it whines for more toner.

Go with the classics and avoid the new crap.

Koz

Is it that those other groups do have too much off-topic? Like metalworking?

Nick

Buy one off your local craigslist if there is one. People bought those for home use and maybe only ran 3 toners thru them. We had an HP (apple) at our graphics shop that never, ever broke down in 8 years. It finally started jamming papaer alot so a new one came in and it was nothing but trouble.

Check out the Cannon printers too. I understand that they make the printers for HP.

Steve R.

I never liked them on copy machines, but the ones on IBM really worked. I kinda question those on printers. Might be ok.

Martin - Martin H. Eastburn @ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net NRA LOH & Endowment Member NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder IHMSA and NRA Metallic Silhouette maker & member

Bill wrote:

Nick Mueller wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@yadro.de:

What part of OT didn't you understand?? I'll type slow so you'll be able to follow,

If....you....do....not....want....to....be....bothered....by....OT....topic s....don't....open....up....OT....labeled....topics.

I killfiled you a while back and I guess the time limit expired, pitty you're still a weenie, back to the killfile you go.

Bill

If....you....do....not....want....to....be....bothered....by....OT....topic

Answer: If I am bothered that people ignore the charter, I complain.

Or in your notation: If .... you ... do ... not ... care ... to ... follow ... the ... charter ... why ... complain ... about ... my ... complaining?

Not _my_ problem. Should you ever have a on-topic question I answered, you won't read it. At least I won't change my eMail-address weekly like the highly admired group-clown Ignoramus does to get through the filters.

Nick

If you just gotta have a stapler, go to Orfice Max and get an electric one to put next to the printer. Then you don't have to junk the printer when it inevitably jams permanently. All new HP equipment, like the last five years worth, is off my short list. It's junk. The other posters have it right, look for a used 5Si or 8000. I've seen these at lease-return places for cheap. Some have been pounded, but one I saw had less than 5000 sheets run through it. Same price for either, you just have to know how to get the page count printed out on self-test. Look at the rollers, too, if they've got definite ridges pressed into them, pass it by. Rollers are usually easy to replace, but the HP roller kits are outasight for price.

There's other makes out there that are heavier duty than HP, if you're doing like hundreds of thousands of sheets per year like we do for membership mailings. Some even use the same cartridges as HP. Best purchased with a service contract.

Stan

No, he changed his email address and the spelling of his name.

Cheers Trevor Jones

That is simply a bloody lie!

Another POS. I can't change the spelling of my name, because it _is_ my name. If I would change it, it no longer would be my name. I simply replaced the umlaut-u ("ü") with the "international-compatible" replacement "ue".

I have not the smallest reason to hide my identity, invent a nickname or forge my eMail-address unlike some cowards here. Because I stand behind what I write.

Nick

Not to worry, Nick. Most English-speakers can't move their mouths through the positions necessary to pronounce the umlaut, anyway!

LLoyd

That is usually bad rollers not grabbing the sheet of paper at the right time.

Children!! Enough!!