[comp.periphs] Centronic laser Printers?

ritchie@hpldola.HP.COM (Dave Ritchie) (02/27/89)

  I was wondering what experience, if any, people have been having with 
the Centronics laser printer that has been showing up in surplus lately.

					Dave Ritchie
					..!hplabs!hp-lsd!ritchie

network@hgcvax (craig chaiken) (03/02/89)

In article <11760003@hpldola.HP.COM>, ritchie@hpldola.HP.COM (Dave Ritchie) writes:
> 
>   I was wondering what experience, if any, people have been having with 
> the Centronics laser printer that has been showing up in surplus lately.
> 
> 					Dave Ritchie
> 					..!hplabs!hp-lsd!ritchie


I purchased a Centronics PagePrinter 8 about a year ago.  The beast has been
nothing but trouble.  It is under supported, poorly designed, oversized, and
requires an enormous amount of patience to set up.  Right now, I get a wide
gray streak running down each page, and the service manual has been of no
help in remedying the situation.  Oh, and did I mention that it is really
slow, a full page bit mapped image takes over an hour to print.  In other
words, it is available cheaply for a very good reason; don't waste your
money.

Craig Chaiken
Hartford Graduate Center
Computing Services