Re: [OxLUG] Mono Laser Printer

M.Blackmore wrote:
| On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 17:21 +0100, Colin Lloyd wrote:
|> I'm looking for a cheap Mono Laser printer - non duplex
|
| Second hand HPs are a good bet up to version 4 - when there were
| actually engineered metal and decently robust plastic moldings rather
| than stamped out on molds of thin sheet and flimsy plastics... Its
| ecological and recycled HP cartridges have proved faultless in the 15 or
| so years I've been using them from an HP2 onwards!
|
| I've had a number of Laserjet 4+s with jetdirect cards (twisted pair
| ethernet connection) from recon stock for 20 or so quid for people and
| kept one for myself (and rather wish I'd kept two in hindsight). The
| cost was less than the cost of a toner cartridge, and the toner
| cartridges proved to be almost full too. Bullet proof pieces of kit, if
| a bit bulky, and last decent bit of consumer engineering HP ever did.
|

I use an HPL 1010 (but I think you can only get the 1020 new now). Has
been plug in and go on a variety of distros including suse 10.0 to .2
Can't comment on the technicals of the build quality but I declare
myself a low volume printer user. However, the machine has survived a
few house moves and environments heavy on dust and cat hair.

Smin