[Gllug] OT: Ebay Printer Steal - was Printer Cartridges

[Ian Norton-Badrul]

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Tethys wrote:
| Ashley Evans writes:
|
|>If you're printing in high quantities it may be worth selling this printer
|>'as is' on eBay and investing in a quality second-hand LASER printer.
|
| Even if you're not going for high volumes, I'd say trying to mess around
| with the cartridges in an inkjet printer is false economy. A quick scan of
| ebay shows you can get a quality PostScript laser printer like a Lexmark
| Optra E312 for 50 quid, and lesser lasers even cheaper than that. You can
| probably get 25 quid or so for a Stylus Photo 810, so a laser starts to
| look like very good value, and will give you better print quality and
| faster printing. For an effective outlay of 25 quid, it sounds like a
| no brainer to me.

HP Laserjet 5 printers are going very cheaply, carts for them are
usually about the same price as the printer,

I recently got a Laserjet 5n (has jetdirect card) for 20 pounds on ebay,
It works very well and even spools its status to my server via syslog

Ian

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