On Oct 31, 2005, at 3:25 PM, Mike Harrison wrote:

> Colour lasers are getting VERY cheap and should not suffer any of the
> problems that inkjets have with infrequent use. They usually work
> better on normal plain copy paper than inkjets, but at the cost of
> poorer photo quality...

Yeah, having one or more jets clogged each time ("occasionally") I want
to use the printer is very annoying.

I recently bought an HP 2600N color laser printer, at least partially
on that basis (no clogging of inkjets!  Yeah!)  It was about $350, and
includes an ethernet connection so that it can be shared easily between
my multiple systems.  (This replaced an aging HP LJ5MP whose
(localtalk) network connection recently broke.  Somewhere in the
mac->printer path...  I either wanted color or duplex from the new
laserprinter, and color turned out to be cheaper (!))  We'll see how
I feel about it when the cartridges empty and it's time to replace
them (about $320 for a full set...  Ouch.)  So far, so good.  It's
noticeably quicker putting out that first page than the 5MP was...

BillW
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