Re: PC printers

I like my Brother b&w laser ... I am going to upgrade it to a color laser
on Black Friday. I use perhaps 1 ream a quarter, and it has been trouble
free for 2.5 years. I can't remember the last jam, and the wireless is rock
solid.

I don't think inkjets tolerate really low usage well ... the tips get
clogged and so forth. If you stick with inkjet you may want to get into a
routine of cleaning or aligning it every week or so.


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Tom Jedrzejewicz
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On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 8:30 AM, Jerry Adams <midrange@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Booth,

I recall that you said that you *may* use one [1] ream of paper a year,
which pretty much describes my own situation. At that rate the cost of the
ink is somewhat minimal. I bought my printer (an HP OfficeJet) > a year
ago, and I'm still on the cartridges that came with the printer.

Another thing that I do is almost always change the properties to print B&W
'cause the color cartridges seem to empty faster.

Also, do you want the printer to do anything else? For example, mine can
fax (which I don't use, not even hooked up), copy, and scan (PDF, Jpeg,
etc.).

And to answer Rob's question: Kodak came out with a printer some years ago
that was priced to make money on the printer and cartridges were priced
reasonably. We all know how well that worked out for 'em.

I only bought the new printer because the old Laser that I had on XP didn't
have any drivers for Win7. I still have the replacement toner and fuser
for
the Laser! The Laser was given to me so the price was right. My
recommendation, based upon the one ream per year usage, is to get the
cheapest one (doorbuster?) that does what you need/want it to do. Oh, and
do you need it to be an emulated printer?

Jerry C. Adams
Righteous people terrify me. Virtue is its own punishment. -Aneurin Bevan
IBM i Programmer/Analyst
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From: PcTech [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Booth
Martin
Sent: Monday, October 19, 2015 6:12 PM
To: PC Technical Discussion for IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries) Users
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] PC printers

I bought a refill kit for $12 and that worked a charm for a couple of
refills. But now they tend to leak on some randomly whimsical basis.

On 10/19/2015 5:37 PM, Dan wrote:

There used to be a time where it was more economical to just replace
the printer with a doorbuster. Not sure that's still the case, and
it's certainly not eco-friendly.

Also, depending on your needs, a lot of printers allow you to print in
"economy" mode.

- Dan

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