Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> Today we went to Sim Lim Square (Singapore's IT Mall) and found out that
> Laser printers becomes really cheap now. One of Samsung's mono Laser
> printer cost S$119 (US$80+). Even color Laser printer become much
> cheaper now.
>
> We ended up buying a Samsung SCX-4200 printer/copier/scanner (mono
> printing and color scanning) for S$235 (about US$160) with a free Samsung
> 1GB MP3 player.
>
> Laser Printers from HP/Canon and even Fuji Xerox are of similar price
> range. Maybe it is the time to dump the inkjets.
>
> Xiaofan
>   
Just as an aside, I love my Epson Dot-Matrix printer.... with 
continuous-feed paper.

I have it hooked up to my linux server/firewall in the basement. I have 
syslogd set up to print major errors and some security logs to the 
printer. If there were ever a disk failure, or someone were to hack in 
to my machine and 'corrupt' the logs I don't think they will be able to 
rewind the printer and 'modify' that historical account.

It is really useful (and this is why I set it up) for catching kernel 
panics which would otherwise hang the machine without being able to save 
the logs to disk... For a time some years ago I was running a SMP linux 
box with some uncommon RAID hardware that had very Alpha support.

Anyways, line-printing is the perfect solution to it, and no 'current' 
printers out there can dump data one line at a time....

all depends on your POV.

getting consumables for it is getting expensive now too though....

Rolf

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