From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 16 20:23:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA09418 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 20:23:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA09411 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 20:23:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id MAA02106; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 12:52:50 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970917125249.41361@lemis.com> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 12:52:49 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: John Fieber Cc: Chuck Robey , Sean Kelly , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printer recommendation References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: ; from John Fieber on Tue, Sep 16, 1997 at 09:26:01PM -0500 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, Sep 16, 1997 at 09:26:01PM -0500, John Fieber wrote: > On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Chuck Robey wrote: > >> but it's speedy enough at least for me, and the print quality, well, >> you'll have to look very closely at your black and white copies to tell >> the difference with your current printer. Magnifying glass-close. > > How sensitive is it to paper quality? I know my 1990 vintage > DeskJet output looks decent on premium quality paper, but pretty > poor on anything else. This seems to be one area where lasers > are more flexible. > > Also, after about 6 years, the paper feed mechanism becomes > notably unreliable. To be fair, you should note that that was the case 6 years ago. If the inkjets have improved as much as laser printers have, I don't think that would have much relevance to a modern printer. Greg