[PLUG-TALK] Looking for a printer, probably not HP anymore

[Paul Heinlein]

On Tue, 28 Sep 2021, Rich Shepard wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Sep 2021, Paul Heinlein wrote:
>
>> Wow. That's horrible, even more so for a company that used to 
>> provide what I considered industry-standard quality.
>
> As an example is my HP-5 LaserJet with the last available duplexer 
> underneath. I bought it in 1997, had it profssionally cleaned 
> perhaps a dozen years ago, and it still works as designed. Not the 
> fastest, especially with the duplexer installed, but so what?

I had a LaserJet IIIp for 15 years or so and then a LaserJet 1022 for 
perhaps 10 years. They both worked great connected to a JetDirect 
device. The former printer just wore out, probably from a mildly dusty 
environment, and I got rid of the latter because we needed a scanner a 
few years ago and I saw no reason to maintain two printers.

That was when I started using a Brother printer+scanner, which has 
been fine and has the added advantage that it works great for printing 
from phones and tablets.

I've never had a bad experience with a laser printer, but then again 
neither of my LaserJets required (or even had) native ethernet access.

-- 
Paul Heinlein
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