Re: need a new printer, but how to configure?

["Fredric Gross" fredric.gross@xxxxxxxx]

Current generation Brother printers accept PCL6 input. I've also had good
luck with NEC SuperScript printers, altho the 1260 series has a strong
tendancy to jam the paper and no easy way to clear the jam without messing
up the cartidge. Unfortunately, the SuperScripts themselves have become
legacy printers. They were great workhorses with very low cost per page.

Fred Gross


----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Holmgren" 
To: "XyWrite_Mail_List" 
Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 8:13 PM
Subject: Re: need a new printer, but how to configure?


> ** Reply to message from Patricia M Godfrey  on Sat,
13 Dec
> 2003 10:18:27 -0500
>
>
> > Holmgen
>
> HolmgRen, if you please.
>
> Nice post to Polly. I'm personally a little uncomfortable to have ladies
> feeling that they must, finally (if nobody else steps forward), assist
other
> ladies -- but jeez louise where do you start with such a query? I mean, I
> didn't notice anybody exactly LEAP FORWARD to volunteer to maintain a
printer
> compatibility list, per my (very good) suggestion the other day. But
that's
> exactly what we're talking about here -- the truth is that no one of us
can be
> specific about "the printer to buy". We only know our own printer, and
it's
> probably three years old. Secondly, the safe XyRoute is Hewlett-Packard.
I
> would NEVER buy any other printer. But I'm reluctant to say that because
H-P
> is more expensive generally than, say, Epson -- and PCL machines are by
> definition not as cheap as WinPrinters. I hate to lose users simply
because
> they impulsively buy a $79 InkJet instead of a $299 (or $599) LaserJet --
but
> that's what is happening, steadily. Legacy operations are becoming more,
not
> less, expensive. All that money we've been saving from not buying the
latest
> version of WinWord, is now going to go to Hewlett Packard. Somebody needs
to
> say this aloud. We're headed into a manufacturer-conspired cul-de-sac,
and the
> only thing that's saving us from extinction is the user base of Linux and
OS/2,
> which compels some manufacturers to still make printers with brains and
> cross-platform capabilities, which generally (albeit almost
coincidentally, as
> a side effect) include also DOS apps.
>
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> Robert Holmgren
> holmgren@xxxxxxxx
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