Josh, On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:43:53 -0400, Josh Koffman wrote: > On 7/31/06, James Newtons Massmind wrote: > > For Lasers, if you don't need speed, old HP printers are king. LaserJet 5 or > > earlier. > > That depends on the kind of speed you want. My LaserJet 5si is pretty > fast, but it's considered a departmental printer and is about the size > of a small photocopier. I think it's rated for something like 200,000 > pages a month! I think i've printed a few hundred in the year I've > owned it... Indeed, we had those in an office of about thirty people, and there was never more than a few seconds to wait for your stuff. But of a similar (maybe slightly later) vintage are the Laserjet 4000 series. These are small-office machines, about an 18" (500mm) cube in size and they are rated at something like 30,000 pages a month. There's a major overhaul due at about 100,000 pages, but the one I bought second-hand only had about 15,000 on the clock! It's still on the first toner cartridge I put in it, and it's excellent in quality and speed. It's the model 4050DTN which has a duplexer ("D"), twin large-capacity paper-trays ("T") and a network card ("N"). It was also very cheap compared to its new price - about 20% of it, I think. Incidentally, having got used to having a duplexer, I would never go back to single-sided printing - the saving in paper alone, not to mention space storing it, makes it well worth having. Cheers, Howard Winter St.Albans, England -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist