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| james_s:
--- Quote from: rdl on March 05, 2020, 02:16:32 am ---In the 90's a 640x480 display would typically be on a 14" screen. Those same pixels today on a 2990x1440 display would need a 65" screen. A bit too big for the average desk. Extra pixels have to be used just to make things look good and text readable, so I don't think a proportional increase of information density is possible, but it could be much better than it is. Many game companies have failed miserably at providing some kind of text scaling for high resolution screens resulting in information that's all but unreadable if you play on a TV. Web and OS designers seem to be at the other end of the spectrum, exaggerating the size of elements far too much. Youtube is an example. --- End quote --- I have no difficulty reading small text on a high resolution screen. I was running 800x600 on a 14" monitor, later 1024x768 on a 15", then I got a 17" and was initially 1280x1024 and later a better one that could do 1600x1200. For those with less acute vision it would be nice to be able to zoom in, or just use a lower resolution display in the first place. I've always liked having very high information density though and am endlessly annoyed by the current trends. There's no point in having all those pixels if you're not going to make use of them. Many years ago when we used one of the earlier messenger apps to communicate at work I could keep it down in a little window in the corner of a 1280x1024 display and still have space to have a spreadsheet open and some notes. In more recent years the messaging apps got bigger and bigger and now with Slack I have it as narrow as it will go on whatever crazy resolution my employer issued Macbook Pro is and it still consumes probably 1/5th of the display. It should be half that size or less. |
| daveyk:
"My Missus & I got sick of using/buying cheap $30 inkjet printers." Not laser, but I would add my 2 cents. I purchased two Epson ET-3750 EcoTank Printers. One for upstairs and one for my small business. The one for my business has printed through two ink refills in less than a year. That is a huge amount of printing, a lot of it in High Quality double-sided mode. It is about $300-$350 (I forget), but the ink is dirt cheap. You refill the ink tanks from large bottle of ink. In high quality mode, it is a bit slow, but the printing is probably about as good as a laserjet, not as nice as a wax, sublimation printer, but I am very happy them. I am now interested in a laserjet printer, probably monochrome is fine. I primarily want it for printing circuit board PCB transfers, but I am thinking I may get a color one that can do double-sides for use in the business too. Toner cartridges cost is the main reason I didn't get a laser printer. It seems you found one with inexpensive cartridges on ebay for your printer. I have to read through the rest of the messages and see if you mentioned the model of the printer you choose. Is there a good color wax printer out there like the Xerox we had a work? I forget the model but it had 4 or 5 WAX cubes instead of a toner cartridge. It had the best printout I have ever seen in a color printer and it was as fast as a laser. It did need services a couple times a year, but it was used hard, probably printing 200-500 pages a day. I would love one of those, or similar, for here at home. LOL, I can only dream. I wonder if WAX printers are okay for PCB transfer paper? I would highly doubt it. Dave |
| IDEngineer:
--- Quote from: daveyk on March 29, 2020, 06:32:06 pm ---Is there a good color wax printer out there like the Xerox we had a work? I forget the model but it had 4 or 5 WAX cubes instead of a toner cartridge. It had the best printout I have ever seen in a color printer and it was as fast as a laser. --- End quote --- I vaguely remember those. People did love them but I haven't heard of one in a very long time. --- Quote ---I am now interested in a laserjet printer, probably monochrome is fine. --- End quote --- Our setup here in the home lab is a monochrome laser and a color inkjet. We generate far more monochrome output than we do color, so the advantages of a laser printer (lower cost per page, no smearing, better tolerance of various media types, etc.) make good sense. The reason this thread caught my eye is that we just replaced our LaserJet 1200 after 20+ years of flawless performance. The rule of thumb for SOHO laser mechanisms is they are designed to yield 12-15K pages over their lifetime. I printed out a status page on the 1200 just before its mechanism literally disintegrated, and we were over 48K pages! We definitely got our money's worth out of that printer. After copious research, we replaced it with a Canon LBP226dw. For under $300 delivered it is easily 2-3X faster than the 1200, does duplex printing which will slash our paper consumption, includes Ethernet (no more dependence upon a specific host PC so everyone else can access the printer!), etc. It's better in every way. Longevity remains to be seen but as I think we paid about $1K for the 1200 we're already 1/3rd the price. The toner cartridges are readily available at every big box office supply store plus all the online shippers, so no problem with consumables. Meanwhile the USB-connected ink jet continues to crank along when we need color images. Having one of each type of printer is really the best answer for our situation. |
| daveyk:
"My HP M254dw color laserjet is about the size of a breadbox, it's smalle" About $320 on Amazon. A full set of high yield cartridges is $700! I just don't know what the correct decision is. |
| ebastler:
--- Quote from: daveyk on March 29, 2020, 06:48:52 pm ---"My HP M254dw color laserjet is about the size of a breadbox, it's smalle" About $320 on Amazon. A full set of high yield cartridges is $700! I just don't know what the correct decision is. --- End quote --- Maybe reading and quoting less selectively can help with your decision: :P --- Quote from: james_s on February 27, 2020, 05:15:30 am ---My HP M254dw color laserjet is about the size of a breadbox, it's smaller than those stupid all in one printer/scanner units that are all the rage and was under $300 when I bought it. A set of OEM cartridges is kinda spendy but aftermarket is available and so far I'm still on the set that came with it. --- End quote --- |
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