[X4U] What printer do YOU use?

[Zane H. Healy]

>If you were buying a laser-printer then I would agree absolutely 
>with you that HP is the way to go - indeed, if you have the space 
>then you could do far worse than buying a secondhand Laserjet 4 or 5 
>just for your B&W printing. The cost of having a second printer 
>would pay for itself within the period over which you'd consume just 
>a few black inkjet cartridges.

I bought a brand new HP LaserJet 5MP in '96, and I'm still using it. 
I think I've gone through two cartridges (and most of that was thanks 
to other people printing).  One cartridge is good for something like 
5,000-6,000 pages.

3+ years ago I got a HP DeskJet 960c dirt cheap through work, and I 
was never very happy with it, and hardly used it.  I need to buy new 
Ink for it, and have actually been threatening to get an Epson to 
replace it.

At the same time, I have to wonder if it's worth the cost and if I 
wouldn't be better off simply outputting whatever I want to print in 
colour to a PDF and taking it down to the local Kinko's or some other 
similar outfit, and having them print it out on a high quality 
printer.  Of course the last time I did that was quite a few years 
ago, and it took 15 minutes for each of the 4 pages to print :^)

		Zane


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