Gerry
Sun Jun 29 14:08:04 PDT 2008
Bill
You probably can buy HP printers in the US for a bit less than I have
quoted. I have merely converted £Sterling to US$ at the rate of $2 to
the £.
The next machine after the HP Laserjet P2014 Printer is the P2015 cost
£170 (US$340) giving up to 26 ppm and a monthly duty cycle of 15000.
This was more than I was prepared to pay.
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Gerry
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Bill in Co. wrote:
> Gerry wrote:
>> Bill
>>
>> I had a HP Laserjet 4L and it was a good printer.
>
> Yup. I did too. Got rid of it some time ago since I bought a newer
> printer.
>
>> As I recall the paper
>> feed was from a flat tray rather than a vertical feed adopted by the
>> 5L and 6L successors. A flat feed is far less prone to paper jams.
>> The print rate would be slow by today's standards (up to 4ppm) but
>> if speed was not an issue it's a good workhorse. However, buying a
>> modern eqivalent is now a lot cheaper than when I bought my 4L.
>
> Exactly! And that 4 ppm was SLOW! Plus it was designed for a
> parallel port.
>
>> As you said it requires a Bio-Tronics parallel interface. The model
>> became obsolete in 1995 and support ceased in 2000. Cartridges may be
>> still available
>
> And they are a bit expensive (I think their cartridges are going up in
> price)
>
>> but I would be surprised if parts to repair are still
>> obtainable.
>>
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=bpl02078
>>
>> I am currently awaiting delivery of an HP Laserjet P2014 Printer,
>> which including cartridge is costing £120 (US$240). A cartridge
>> costs about £50 (US$100) if bought from the right source i.e. not a
>> big store like Staples. The print rate is 23 ppm and the monthly
>> duty cycle is 10,000 pages.
>
> 10,000 pages on one cartridge? That is impressive!
>
>> An HP Laserjet P1005 can be bought for £58 (US$116) including
>> cartridge which gives 14 ppm and a monthly duty cycle of 5,000 page.
>
> Gerry, I recently bought a HP Laserjet 1018 to replace my old HP4L
> critter. It cost me a bit over $100 US dollars (guess that would be a
> bit over £50), and seems to work out fine here. Nothing really
> fancy. Not sure how it compares to the P1005. Mine is probably
> more comparable to the HP 1020.
> I purchased that (slightly) older HP model (1018 instead of 1020)
> since it still had W98SE drivers that would allow it to work as a USB
> port printer with my other (Win98SE) computer AND my new WinXP
> computer. The newer model 1020 apparently doesn't have Win98SE
> compatible USB print drivers (so even if you did get that special USB
> to parallel cable adapter, it would still be a "no go", as I recall).