Choosing a Personal Printer For the Long Haul 557
The Optimizer writes "After 16 years of service, my laser printer, a NEC Silentwriter 95, is finally wearing its internals out, and I need to find a replacement. It's printed over 30,000 pages and survived a half-dozen long-distance moves without giving me any trouble. I believe it's done so well for two reasons. First, it's sturdily built and hails from an era when every fraction of a penny didn't have to be cost-cut out of manufacturing. The other reason was its software. Since it supported postscript Level II, it wasn't bound to a specific operating system or hardware platform, so long as a basic postscript level 2 driver was available. A new color laser printer with postscript 3 seems like a logical replacement, and numerous inexpensive printers are available. I'd rather get a smaller, personal-size printer than a heavy workgroup printer. Most of all, I would like it to still be usable and running well with Windows 9, OS X 11, and whatever else we will be using in 2020. Can anyone recommend a brand or series of printers that is built to last and isn't going to be completely dependent on OS specific proprietary drivers?"
hmmmm (Score:5, Funny)
Buy pda instead (Score:2, Funny)
Re:No, we can't recommend anything (Score:5, Funny)
Your dream of buying a cheap personal printer that will last you two generations of Windows is simply impossible.
You mean today's printers can't last more than three years?
I think he, like most of us, denies the existence of ME and Vista.
Re:Are you kidding (Score:5, Funny)
This makes it to the front page of Slashdot?
You're not seeing the big picture. *Of course* this isn't about finding a personal laser printer. The submitter is *obviously* building something big... like sharks with lasers!
The best laser printer is (Score:5, Funny)
the one that uses the same toner cartridges as the one at work.
Re:OSX 11? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Are you kidding (Score:3, Funny)
Somehow "Sharks with frikken laserprinters in their heads" just doesn't seem as cool
Re:No cost cutting in manufacturing? (Score:3, Funny)
What a radical concept... Think I could patent it? :)
No. (Score:5, Funny)
The joke translates: find one with readily available cartridges.
No it does not. It translates: "Find one with FREE cartridges."
It is a common mistake.
"FREE!!!" is the base of many words in Freeloaderian language, so the actual meaning often gets mangled when translated to English.
Swollen? (Score:1, Funny)
You either have a very big hand or very small printers.
Re:30,000? Junk! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:That's easy (Score:3, Funny)
HP Laserjet 4 and a box of crayons.
WTF? Who uses crayons anymore when you can go down to Costco and get a set of 100 high-quality colored pencils for what the box of 64 Crayolas (with the built-in sharpener) used to cost? They're FAR more durable, give better image quality, and offer a much larger gamut. I've never seen a toddler eat a colored pencil, either.
Re:No. (Score:3, Funny)
Listen to the man. My last company went out of business. I ran home and brought back all the cases of Post-It Notes, but they told me it was already too late. The locks had been changed.