"practical electronics handbook" by Ian Sinclair and John Dunton - RIP OFF

[Mechatrommer]

tada! thanx to Simon and EdoNork. has'nt been cut to half, just out of printer.
If you like it, buy the Original. If not, scrap it!

some damaged nozzles there in red color cartridge if closely inspected. kinda get used to it already

[Mechatrommer]

@Simon: just between us... that 28MB thing, is quite an effort, i'm not sure if i can do the same to you, the net speed here is just "not up to the standard". Thanx alot !!!!

[Simon]

no worries mate, I'm surprised your yahoo mail box took it, as I have my own hosting this is a non issue for me so I forget easily.

[Mechatrommer]

no worries mate, I'm surprised your yahoo mail box took it, as I have my own hosting this is a non issue for me so I forget easily.

yup luckily, maybe if sending from yahoo that is prohibited if larger than 10MB, i think if i'm not mistaken.
and yup! its confirmed. the softcopy = hardcopy, i just afraid if i got the different version.

[MTron]

dont suppose i could jump on this e-book too? Mind e-mailing it to me as well??? If you don't mind, my e-mail is in my profile, but make it @gmail.com not @msn.com

Matthew

[orbiter]

MTron you got PM

Sorry mate I sent the wrong one first 

orb

[Zero999]

Use a utility such as 7-zip to split the file up into many smaller files if it's too big to email.

Laser printers seem to offer the best value for money, especially if it's monochrome. I have an old Cannon LBP660 printer with a toner which lasted for over 10 years before I had to have it refilled and that was about four years ago.

I don't know about modern laser printers or colour though.

I recently saw a cheap inkjet printer in Lidl but the cartridges were a rip-off so there's no way I would've bought it.

[Simon]

The best compromise for colour/cost and top quality is a Ricoh Gel printer, a complete refill is like £120 but that IS for 1000 prints, some BW lasers are a rip off, our one at work is forever out of toner

[EEVblog]

Use a utility such as 7-zip to split the file up into many smaller files if it's too big to email.

If things are too big to email I use www.sendspace.com
Allows up to 300MB with only minor annoying ads at the receiver end.

Dave.

[orbiter]

If your struggling swapping large files, perhaps try the likes of Mediafire. You just upload your chosen files and they it can be downloaded by somebody else, or made private via simple settings for your future use. It's free, and you get unlimited uploads, unlimited downloads, unlimited storage no speed limits and download resuming  

http://www.mediafire.com/

[Zero999]

The best compromise for colour/cost and top quality is a Ricoh Gel printer, a complete refill is like £120 but that IS for 1000 prints

12p for ink per page still sounds like a lot to me, bearing in mind I don't want colour.

Does it store well? I know that the print heads dry up on some inkjets if they're not used for awhile, is this still true? I've not owned an inkjet for over ten years.

, some BW lasers are a rip off, our one at work is forever out of toner

Maybe some of the more modern laser printers? My old Cannon LBP 660 costs just 2.4p per page and I get the toner refilled so it costs even less.

Fair enough, I wouldn't it to be that cheap from a colour printer and I know prices go up but I don't want a colour printer.
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/printers/3316/canon-lbp-660

The trouble with the old Cannon is that it's an old parallel printer with no drivers for any OS newer than Windows 2000, though it will work on XP with Windows 2000 drivers - something that Vistan or 7 won't allow nor will a 64-bit OS.

I'm not bothered about speed, colour or even quality (600dpi is fine for most text documents), just a low cost, reliable printer, which is economical to run.

[alm]

Work group class laser printers (eg. HP Laserjet 4xxx) are usually very economical. Toner for my printer is €90 from the manufacturer (you can probably get 'refilled' ones cheaper), and is specced for 10k pages. The current cartridge is the smaller capacity one, I think it's rated for 6k pages, and it's currently at 9% capacity with over 9k pages printed (about 2k 'other paper sizes', so these may have been envelopes). I think the lower capacity cartridge was something like €70, so that would be about €0.007 per page (10k pages until the cartridge is empty). It supports postscript, so no driver issues, and even supports Ethernet, so no issues with parallel ports either. It is huge and noisy, however.

The only issue is getting the printer, they are pretty expensive when bought new. Getting them used/surplus locally is the best way, since they are fairly fragile and heavy, so shipping is probably expensive. A long time ago, I bought a much older printer in the same class (Laserjet IID) for something like €100.

[Zero999]

I found a good thread on this subject.
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=612353

Unfortunately it's out of date, some of the printers mentioned are no longer made, after Googling for the printers on the list, the best one which is still available and affordable, seems to be the Brother HL-5240, 2.1p/page (including paper at 1p/sheet) and can be bought for under £100.

http://www.google.co.uk/products/catalog?client=opera&rls=en&q=HL-5240&oe=utf-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=16951771083253417501&ei=6QNcTP-NBsuNjAeigtHwAw&sa=X&oi=product_catalog_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDYQ8wIwAg&os=reviews

From what I gather, it's not worth printing your own photos, it's cheaper to get them done professionally, although I can see the benefits convenience wise. I'm still considering a colour printer though but might get a separate one for the odd colour print.