[mdlug] HP Linux Printer At Big LOTS?

[Thomas Cameron (Red Hat)]

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Michael Corral wrote:
| 2008-03-17, Monsieur Thomas Cameron (Red Hat) a ecrit:
|> I have been looking for a fast black and white printer for home and I've
|> learned a couple of things...
|>
|> You have to be *really* careful about buying a "cheap" printer.
|
| The old HP laserjets are still the best for black&white, IMO.
|
| I got an old HP Laserjet 4 Plus from work for free, they scrapped it
| because we got some of those new big Xerox printer/copier/fax things.
| I've been using it for over a year now, it's been great. The print
| quality is so good. And you can get cheap ink cartridges for it on the
| interweb (about 1/3 the official retail price). I've seen some local
| places selling old used HP laserjets for cheap, I think that's the way
| to go.

I actually have an ancient LaserJet 4.  When I use the Linux Printing
Project PPD for it it is painfully slow - like 4ppm.  I read others were
having speed issues and "downgraded" to the LaserJet 3 definition to
speed it up.  I tried it and I am getting better speed, like 8-12 ppm
but I am interested in the new printers that do like 30-40 ppm black and
white.  The LaserJet 4 will never go that fast.
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Thomas Cameron, RHCE, RHCX, CNE, MCSE, MCT
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