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Black Friday at Staples ... Laser Printers only 49$

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There's a couple of mono laser printers (Brother and Samsung are the ones I spotted) for dirt cheap.

https://blackfriday.com/stores/staples/flyers/black-friday/page-2

The reason I post this - a laser printer is an excellent means to CHEAPLY print up thousands of flyers.

If you need to get the word out about something, say a missing pet, this seems to be as good a way as any. It's in your face IOW, as long as you're willing to stick them in mailboxes and whatnot. No one reads the newspapers, or Craigslist. I've had sooooo many people tell me they were going to put something up on their stupid facebook page. Barely a one did.

Of course you can just have someone print them up, but the cost of doing it yourself is a fraction.

Someone gave me an older Brother laser, and I'm glad I got my hands on it.

Carry on.
 
One note about that low cost Brother HL-L2320D printer, it is a GDI / host based printer. That might be OK for most people, but may be an issue for some people.

I have an HL-5340D which I have been 100% satisfied with in the few years that I have had it. It replaced an HL-5140, which I still have and was also satisfied with except it wasn't a duplex printer. Looks like the closest Brother replacement now is the HL-5450DN at around $180, not that I plan on replacing my current printer anytime soon.
 
I've owned a lot of laser printers in the past. The one sitting by my desk is an HL5040, I've got another HL5240 at a different address on the web. Good workhorses, cheap to run--easy to refill print cartridges. The big guy is a Xerox Docuprint 2825--I was looking for a printer that could do duplexed 11x17 and found one with maybe 500 copies on the clock for $100, complete with extra paper and toner from a sign shop going out of business.

I've become addicted to TCP/IP printing--both Brothers are connected to USB-to-ethernet adapters and Ethernet comes with the Xerox. Any machine in the house can use any printer.
 
NeXT said:
You ain't going to get me a new laser printer until you pry this LJ 4M+ from my cold stiff fingers. ;)
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I could add that I am still using my Laserwriter 12/640PS. It is manufactured in 1996 and just carries on working. I got toner cartridges off ebay for ten euros which kept it running. It is also connected via TCP/IP which I like a lot.
 
Wow! That's an impressive array of printers. I still have DMP-130 that works. Happy Thanksgiving!
 
All of my old laser printer still work. HP 4si, Epson Actionlaser 1500, NEC 870, Apple 4/600. If I upgrade it will be for a 11x17 laser that has a built in scanner (basically a printer/copier). I will never buy another inkjet.
 
Picked up an HL-2140 from a charity shop for $10 including new cart. Works a treat. Have a DCP130c,which is an inkjet, which I only use the scanning and card reader functions on now.
 
JDallas said:
I can't think of any computer product as worthless as the inkjet printers.
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My mother went through various piles of junk inkjet printers and who knows how much $ on ink cartridges that were always causing problems. I bought myself a new Brother HL-4040CDN color laser printer a couples years back when it was on sale but never got around to setting it up as I never really need color. I replaced her inkjet printer with that and all my printer support issues went away.
 
JDallas said:
My HP-4 Laser Printer was the best. I'd like to find a modern laser printer for the home that is as good.
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Well, I'm impressed with my Xerox Docuprint--right now, I've got it installed with 96MB of memory and there's still an option for a hard disk in it. But it's pretty big--it has to be, to duplex 11x17.

I used Panasonic laser printers for quite some time; KX-P4450, 4451 and 4455 (Postscript). Heavy duty beasts that probably weigh 70 lbs. apiece. I still have the 4455--and it works, but it's one of those that has a separate drum and developer, with toner added from a bottle to a door on the top. The little Brother printers do just as well, without a lot of the fuss. Anyone wants the 4455 with a bunch of extra supplies, come and get it!
 
JDallas said:
...I can't think of any computer product as worthless as the inkjet printers....
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Stone said:
...Ditto, that! I still use dot matrix. :)
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I've got a "Paper Tiger" dot matrix + graphics in my restoration pile. It never stopped working, just need to replace some capacitors that have likely dried out over the ages.

gslick said:
...My mother went through various piles of junk inkjet printers and who knows how much $ on ink cartridges...
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My dad did too. He printed out the daily weather forecast website and each email he got in color. There were boxes of ink cartridges everywhere. While I wouldn't recommend the practice, if it made his days a little better, I was fine with it.

JDallas said:
...My HP-4 Laser Printer was the best. I'd like to find a modern laser printer for the home that is as good....
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Chuck(G) said:
...I'm impressed with my Xerox Docuprint--right now...
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Thanks for the recommendation. I'll be buying something for the home. That HP-4 was so good, I could just print my large schematics on 8.5x11 sheets... though I tended to be the only one that could read them without lens. I've probably aged past that ability too.
 
I still occasionally use my Laserjet 4000TN I rescued from a skip bin in the rain (had to open it up and dry it out), and have another two older rescued Laserjets sitting in the garage.
But the printer I use most these days is a cheapo Epson combo scanner/copier/printer with a Continuous Ink System.
My family and I run off page after page after page of full colour and high quality photo film prints, without worrying about expensive cartridges, just top up the tanks from a bottle every few months.
I still run into people that have never heard of inkjet CIS, they are amazed after seeing the results and then rueful realising how much they are ripped off in buying cartridges.
 
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Unknown_K said:
Is that CIS system an add-on for that printer or was it designed that way?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_ink_system

It's one I bought off local eBay for my model printer, nothing to do with Epson, just typed in my printer's model. These things are available for lots of different models and brands so ther may well be one for your own printer. Fitting was easy, these units have a chip and a reset button that fools the printer. I think the only time I pressed it was when I installed it. The downside of the CIS I can think of is the printer becomes less portable as there is now a four-tank reservoir next to the printer, and tubing going inside, but if you keep it in the one place it's no problem. The instructions say not to lift the reservoir above the level of the print head or there is a chance of flooding the heads. That's about the only thing to be careful of. I live in a quite warm and very sunny climate so I keep a piece of cardboard over the tanks to keep direct sun off it. The ink I buy in BCMYK from the place I got the CIS from, I get an extra bottle of black as that's obviously the main colour that is used. I never let it run the reservoirs dry before refilling.
Other things I've printed are DEC manuals from bitsavers, CAD drawings, frame grabs from videos, web pages, card models, pictures for school projects and my wife does scrapbooking so it gets a lot of use there as well as running off all the 50-odd newsletters (with colour photos) for her craft club where she's the newsletter editor. In short we just keep feeding it paper and topping up the ink :)

Oh and another great thing with a CIS, running that annoying and wasteful (so-called) head cleaning operation that all inkjets have is pretty much eliminated. I can't recall the last time I did that. Probably because we use the printer so often.

Steve.
 
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hmm, where did you get your continuous ink setup? My lexmark S205 *picked up for free for doing a computer job* was brand new, sitting for a year, had the inks that came with it still, cleaned them up, and man they last forever with a smidge of ink, but i know i will have to get more eventually. CIS or a decent color laser is probably going to be the way to go.

I go agree, laser printing is where its at, but what do you guys do when something breaks? Just get the maintenance kit and all is good?
 
No idea what new laser printers are like, but outside of toner and maybe a cleaning or roller repair the old ones last forever. I find inkjets fail pretty easy.
 
I have an Epson WF2510 and had no trouble finding a CIS for it on australian eBay, cost about $120 local ($100 USD) complete with the four inks. I checked eBay first then asked a good mate of mine Mr Google (who generally knows everything about everything) on your Lexmark S205 printer and he came up with http://www.continuousbulkinksupplysystems.com/?main_page=index&cPath=8_29 so hope that helps.
$35 is a price we can only dream about here... for a lot of stuff (food, cars, electronics, software, shipping, books, tools, houses etc etc etc), you stateside folks really are lucky to have the cheapest consumer goods in the world I reckon.
 
Fifty bucks seems really steep when I can get an el-cheapo 16ppm through NewEgg for $30... But then nearly all this years "black friday" bull seemed overpriced compared to what I usually expect things to cost.

Really helps with my "don't be a jackass and stay home" plans this holiday season.
 
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