Re: Need advice re a new laser printer

[Norman Bauman nbauman@xxxxxxxx]

I would be interested too, and in addition I'd be interested in the HP
HL-1850, which also duplexes, and which J&R is selling for $330.

At 04:36 AM 4/13/04 -0400, Eric Vantassel wrote:
>
>With prices (even here in the U.K.) falling steadily, I'm about to
>replace my HP 5L with a new low-end laser printer. Based on advice in
>magazines and looking most closely at cost (my criteria are [a] low
>per-page cost, [b] clean duplexing so I can use up the versos of all
>those rejected drafts, and [c] reliability since after only a few years
>my 5L demands to be fed one sheet at a time), I've narrowed my choices
>down to two probables:
>    Minolta PagePro 1300W
>    Brother HL-1430
>with per-page cost and design slightly favoring the Brother.
>
>Since I've been unable to purge either my XyWin or my XyDOS 4 of various
>corruptions, for some time I've been doing almost all my printing-out
>via conversion to MS Word. But I'm planning shortly to reformat my C
>drive and reinstall Win98 SE and all the programs, and I'm hoping then
>to reinstall both forms of XyWrite, and I'd love to be able once again
>to print direct from XyDOS. If that becomes possible, what printer
>driver should I be using, either from the original XyDOS 4 installation
>or downloadable?
>
>Thanks
>Eric Van Tassel
>
>
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