From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 9 15:20:40 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D552F37B401 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 15:20:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.accelernet.net (smtp.accelernet.net [208.159.164.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 19A8A43F1E for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 15:20:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mbettinger@championelevators.com) Received: (qmail 23689 invoked from network); 9 Jan 2003 23:20:32 -0000 Received: from 208-169-162-132.hou.accelernet.net (HELO helpdesk.championelevators.com) (208.169.162.132) by smtp.accelernet.net with SMTP; 9 Jan 2003 23:20:32 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: Matthew Bettinger Reply-To: mbettinger@championelevators.com Organization: Champion Elevators, inc. To: Subject: Re: reccomended printers Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 17:15:24 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200301091715.24479.mbettinger@championelevators.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday 09 January 2003 05:03 pm, BSD baby wrote: > > I am looking to buy a laser printer for < $500 but need > > some reccomendations on which one is decent for home/office > > use. I had seen the HP 1200, it looks ok, will it last? > > Yes and it works VERY well with FreeBSD. > It handles PostScript files directly. No GhostScript needed. I print to 1200's 4si's 5si's from bsd. The 4si's and 5si's are probably= THE=20 most durable printer that I have ever seen. They are rather big and heav= y=20 but they can push alot of paper. =20 Make sure to inquire about the last time the fuser had been replaced befo= re=20 you purchase one. You can purchase maint. kits for around 150 bux. That= =20 cheap printer might end up costing you another 150 bux if you aren't care= ful.=20 Fusers get scratched or go bad but it's nice to at least have a general i= dea=20 when the next replacement is due. Matt=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message