chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) (05/24/88)
>In article <2524@kitty.UUCP> larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes: >> A $ 1,650 laser printer is simply not that rugged or reliable. >>Period. You get what you pay for. In article <568@hscfvax.harvard.edu> pavlov@hscfvax.harvard.edu (G.Pavlov) answers: >I dunno about that. Larry is mostly right; just change the last statement to: `You get no more than you pay for.' >We have been running a LaserJet II pretty hard .... It has held up >just fine .... I am not sure what engine the LJII uses; the LJ I uses the old Canon write-black engine that is also used in the Imagen 8/300 and a number of others. The Canon engine has a brass gear which, after a few hundred thousand pages, becomes a pile of brass filings. 100000 pages is not very many: to me, `medium volume' means around 10000 pages a week. At that rate the Canon printers need service every two or three months, and are on their last legs before a year is out. Most people using LaserJets, LaserWriters, and other low-cost engines are doing what copy shops would call `extremely low volume' copying. The phrase `high volume' (or `pretty hard', as above) means different things to different people; I would advise you to use real page estimates (how many thousand pages per day, or per week, or whatever). (As a home printer, an LJ or LW is wonderful, of course.) -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris