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Non-color laser printer for under $100

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aesthete8

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Nov 2, 2010, 4:05:18 AM11/2/10
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Is that unreasonable to ask for?

Rod Speed

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Nov 2, 2010, 2:53:15 PM11/2/10
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aesthete8 wrote:

> Is that unreasonable to ask for?

Nope, particularly if it doesnt need to be new.


Michael Black

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Nov 2, 2010, 8:20:07 PM11/2/10
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On Tue, 2 Nov 2010, aesthete8 wrote:

> Is that unreasonable to ask for?
>

I paid $15 for my HP-4P about 2003, it had a ridiculously small page
count on it. The access panel for the memory expansion was missing,
and it had a third party cartridge in there which didn't last, leaving me
thinking someone swapped a more used cartridge before donating it to the
Rotary Club sale I bought it at. It's never given me trouble, for a few
years I was printing a lot and I rapidly went through a cartridge (a
cartrdige refilled by a third party).

I bought my first laser printer in 2001, for $25, which seemed a good deal
too. But, it was a less common manufacturer and when it stopped printing
properly, I put it aside because I wasn't sure if merely refilling it
would fix the problem. I might have tackled it, but just when I needed it
the HP came along, and the prices were so low that I wasn't fussy.

I've seen laser printers waiting for the garbage truck at this point,
surely a sign that they have dropped in price. Certainly there are under
a hundred dollar laser printers, I have no idea how good they are. But if
they are being tossed out, they are being treated like inkjet printers,
toss rather than refill.

Michael

George

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Nov 3, 2010, 9:14:37 AM11/3/10
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Likely they are being tossed for the same reason many inkjets are. The
cheap printers piled up in the big box all share one thing in common.
Low acquisition price and high operational cost because the manufacturer
needs to make something and they didn't make anything on the original sale.

Jon von Leipzig@mayday.com

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Nov 4, 2010, 12:14:43 AM11/4/10
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On Nov 2, 3:05 am, aesthete8 <art...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is that unreasonable to ask for?

Brother HL-2140 (about $80., at Amazon)
(can use cheap generic toner)

SMS

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Nov 23, 2010, 3:02:11 PM11/23/10
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On 11/2/2010 1:05 AM, aesthete8 wrote:
> Is that unreasonable to ask for?

No.

Free is a good price. Got my present Laserjet 5MP (which replaced my 20+
year old Laserjet III) on Freecycle, and I often see laser printers
there. For my 5MP, someone had purchased a new Mac with no parallel port
and didn't want to figure out how to connect the printer via a USB to
parallel converter or a print server with a parallel port.

Not sure how it is now, but one advantage of HP printers is that the
drum and toner cartridge are together. You can refill the toner
cartridge if the drum is still okay, but if it's not, replacement toner
cartridges are cheap, especially after-market ones.

I plugged the 5MP into my wireless print server (2 USB, one Parallel)
and I was good to go.

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