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What's a good printer for minimal usage ?

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beanflying:
Interesting. I 'still' need to buy a replacement printer from this 18 month old topic  :-DD https://www.eevblog.com/forum/general-computing/laser-or-good-quality-inkjet-printer-in-2021/msg3571234/#msg3571234

I have been mooching printer time occasionally and not owning one the local library is 100m away if I am desperate. Still sort looking for the flatbed Scanner/Laser in a small form factor (so a miracle)  and the more I see of modern Inkjets being a complete race to the bottom to sell consumables I can't see my usage suits spending good $ on another mid level inkjet again.

tooki:

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--- Quote from: tooki on February 02, 2023, 07:14:34 pm ---For what it’s worth, Canon inkjets are much more tolerant of sitting idle without clogging. I gave up on Epson after having two of them clog irreparably despite being used at least once a week. I switched back to Canon in 2003, and none of those ever suffered a permanent clog. My current Canon printer, whose printhead has finally started to fail (ink colors contaminate each other), still isn’t clogged, and it has been in use since early 2008!!

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There are many variables. Printer model, ink manufacturer, air temperature and humidity, moon phase, whatever. In other words, a consensus recommendation is not to get an ink jet printer, unless you have a specific reason to do so :).

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I wouldn’t call it “consensus”, especially with the ink tank inkjets whose page costs are spectacularly low.

It used to be that the general recommendation was “inkjet for low volume, laser for high volume”. Now it’s kinda the opposite: “laser for low volume/sporadic, inkjet for frequent, high volume”.

There’s actually been, over the past few years, some movement of inkjet into the large office printer market. Some models have full A3-width printheads that print at enormous speeds, with dirt-cheap ink. HP and Canon have discontinued theirs, but Epson is about to ship some new models next month, with page-wide heads capable of 60 pages per minute.

Muttley Snickers:
My blood brother is a complete fuckwit but my inkjet Brother is, and always has been my best and most reliable friend. I really do love my Brother MFC790CW.   ;D

pcprogrammer:

--- Quote from: tooki on February 03, 2023, 09:45:08 am ---There’s actually been, over the past few years, some movement of inkjet into the large office printer market. Some models have full A3-width printheads that print at enormous speeds, with dirt-cheap ink. HP and Canon have discontinued theirs, but Epson is about to ship some new models next month, with page-wide heads capable of 60 pages per minute.

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Funny that you mention this. Some 20 years ago I wrote a dedicated driver for, at the time, Group1 Software, to output IJPDS intended for big inkjet printers with full width heads. Can't find any pictures and don't recall the name of the manufacturer. The web shows Kodak as the developer of the IJPDS format and it might well be that it was also them who made the printers. Had to make a trip to a factory in Dayton Ohio to get more information about the systems and after finishing the driver went for testing to some place in Switzerland where they had one of these printers. Filled up a big room these things and took big rolls of paper. But they where fast. Full speed about 2000 pages per minute if I recall correclty.  :)

jmelson:

--- Quote from: tooki on February 03, 2023, 09:33:13 am ---

You can get them for free in classified ads. People are constantly giving away laser printers: the toner runs out, and then they see that a new toner cartridge is $80 and instead choose to buy a new $100 laser (whose $50 cartridges only last for a few hundred pages) and give away the old printer whose $80 toner will last for 5000 pages…

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Well, I needed Ethernet + PostScript and wanted to make sure I got the right options.  The eBay seller really screwed this up TWICE, no Ethernet!
I finally got a refund and bought from a different seller, and it is working fine.

--- Quote ---Note to self: finally get around to ordering a new toner cartridge for my old HP laser. (It still has toner left, but the cartridge is old and produces lousy output, due to a worn out drum and doctor blades.)

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Yes, I kept my old LaserJet 5M running for about 15 years but always had to put new wiper blades in the NOS cartridges I got.  I finally had to put the poor beast out to pasture as one of the paper feed rollers turned to complete goo, and no replacement was available.  Now I have a M401dne, and it prints WAAAY faster and does duplex, and can also print some complex documents the old one choked on.
Jon

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