In message <426FDA21.5060805@sbcglobal.net>
          Marcel Duchamp <marcel.duchamp@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> If I had only black and white printing needs, I would get a laser print=
er.

I agree. I've got a Panasonic KX-P7110 here - I got it for =A3120, down f=
rom
nearly =A3300 because it had been shipped out and then returned by someon=
e
else, completely unopened. I've had it since October last year, and it's =
on
its first "real" toner cartridge (real as in "not a half-full test cart").
PCL6, built-in duplexer, 14ppm, parallel, USB and Ethernet (100BaseT)
interfaces. Even with the duplexer on, it cranks out 12ppm.
Oh, and it's great for making toner-transfer PCBs using Staples photo pap=
er.
Set the toner density to maximum, paper source to "Manual feed slot", pri=
nt,
iron on and soak for 15 minutes in warm water (with a bit of washing-up
liquid added). Works every time.

> I have no experience of color printers except for inkjets so I don't=20
> know if color laser or something is good or not.

Epson inkjets aren't bad. I've had my Stylus C64 printing on tracing pape=
r
before - I print a 0.1" grid on the back of the paper, then draw on the o=
ther
side with a Rotring Tikki mechanical pencil and ink with a 0.35mm Rotring
Isograph pen. The grids are printed in blue - the nice thing about that i=
s
that you can just take the image data from the blue channel, clean it up =
a
bit and be done with it. If it doesn't make sense, think about what you w=
ould
see if you looked at a white sheet of paper with a blue and a black line =
on
it. Then think about what you would see if that same sheet of paper was
illuminated by blue light.

> Do a search on continuous ink systems.  Here, I'll give you a start:
> http://www.inkjetart.com/cis/instructions/
> http://www.silverprint.co.uk/inkj28.html
> http://www.mediastreet.com/cgi-bin/tame/support/NiagaraII_article.tam

That looks pretty neat. I'm not brave enough to butcher my C64 like that,
though (and the family would kill me if I broke it!)

Later.
--=20
Phil.                              | Acorn Risc PC600 Mk3, SA202, 64MB, 6=
GB,
philpem@philpem.me.uk              | ViewFinder, 10BaseT Ethernet, 2-slic=
e,
http://www.philpem.me.uk/          | 48xCD, ARCINv6c IDE, SCSI
... Sane?  Hell, if I was sane why would I be here?
--=20
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