Laser Printers: Vintage vs New(er)

[Patrickool93]

Yeah, what would be difficult to change about a toner cart?

 

[MacG4]

toner carts are easy as pie to change out

 

[Quadraman]

Yeah, what would be difficult to change about a toner cart?

I'm not sure about the internal arrangement of my printer, but I think I remember reading somewhere that these things come with 4(!) cartridges. Red, Cyan, Yellow and Black.

 

[macintoshman]

I like anything vintage

 

[ChristTrekker]

I have a LW 4/600 that's still in working condition. The problem is that the G5 only sees it occasionally. It will go for a long stretch just fine, then something unknown must change and it will be invisible to the Mac for a long time. I've been trying to set it up one of my Unix boxes as a CUPS print server, as they all see it reliably, and CUPS is probably a more reliable standard (as far as OS X goes) than the geriatric AppleTalk the printer uses.

I got that printer second-hand about 6 years ago, and it was at least that old when I got it. If only it had the memory upgrade, that would help speed it up quite a bit. It really chugs sometimes, trying to chew through modern print jobs.

 

[coius]

I have a Samsung ML-1710, and I love it. albeit, it's USB, but we are like on our third toner cartridge and have printed out about 23,000 pages (with the toner saver on) and the carts. are only $70/piece. Which is not bad, but considering my mom printes out simple pictures on it, that's fine. We have an Epson CX4200 All-in-One, and after printing like 10 photos, the ink was gone. on a brand new ink set!!! (not the ones that shipped with the printer, these were Epson Retail). On top of that, when we got the printer, it was like $400, and the cartridges cost $40 for each color it uses!! (this includes black too!)

talk about a Piece of crap! The thing can't print that good (it has been known to smear) and it's expensive to run. So we don't even use it for prints. we just use it for scanning. When contacting Epson about how fast the ink went, epson said it was normal. The worst part?? it wasn't even full DPI

We are STILL pissed about that. It cost us like $700 and we printed 10 pictures, and we can't use it!

 

[MacG4]

i too have moved from a 7 year old Hp injet printer over to a Hp Laserjet 1200 i got local for $50

 

[equant]

The only problem is that it doesn't have an ethernet port so to network it I use an ethernet to Localtalk adaptor.

Is there an equivalent thing for making USB printers into ethernet printers?

I'm doing the opposite of most people's pet peaves, and instead of not searching to see if a question has been asked, I'm not searching to see if an answer has been replied. I have to guess someone already mentioned it, but the thread is so long!

...There are network devices made by netgear/linksys/etc that are hubs with usb ports that can be used to make usb printers easily networkable.

Nathan

 

[SiliconValleyPirate]

We recently had to bring in new lasers at work. I got LJ 1022s and tbh they are tacky and very lightly built, even compared to the 5 year old 1200s they are working alongside. They are more economical to run being HPs (no new fuser drums that cost as much as the printer every 50,000 copies) but even so, they aren't as nice as the old ones, despite being faster.

Which reminds me - anyone know how to rectify a slipping paper feed system on a LaserJet 5? Ours has been great until recently when it started jamming because the rollers are slipping. perhaps I should run some abrasive along the rubber rollers?

 

[Scott Baret]

I have an LJ1022 and I like it. My other printers that I currently use are a LW 16/600 PS, Canon i450, and an ImageBanger.

The 1022 is indeed lightly built, I will be the first to tell you that. Where I came from we had several older model personal LJs still working fine. There was even a LJ III in the health office, still in service!

I will say right now that if there is any brand I can't stand it's Konica-Minolta. We have one of their copiers at work and it's been problematic.

 

[tomlee59]

Which reminds me - anyone know how to rectify a slipping paper feed system on a LaserJet 5? Ours has been great until recently when it started jamming because the rollers are slipping. perhaps I should run some abrasive along the rubber rollers?

Do a search on this very thread for wally's suggestion about Rubber Renue.

 

[Mike Richardson]

Main printer in our apartment is a LaserWriter 12/640 PS hooked up via Ethernet to the network. All the Macs use AppleTalk - brilliantly simple. The PCs require this convoluted setup involving the IP address and all of this other nonsense. It's a tank though. My LaserJet 1012 sits in the closet.

 

[Unknown_K]

Someday I will find a local LJ3 so I can use my tokenring adapter and print from the TR network

 

[Charlieman]

Someday I will find a local LJ3 so I can use my tokenring adapter and print from the TR network

Interesting. You actually use Token Ring on a home network? Have you got a System 360 in the spare bedroom?