Holy Snit!
Dec. 5th, 2002 11:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mbarrick
It pays to be the crazy old man living with cats in the burnt out building.Earlier this evening I was down in the basement installing a light in my storage room and noticed a laser printer in the salvage pile. I just hooked it up and lo! It works. It's a couple years obsolete and a tad sooty, but, shit, it's a free laser printer! r0x0r!
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no snit!
Date: 2002-12-06 10:03 am (UTC)Wich printer? There might be reasons it was thrown away?
Date: 2002-12-06 10:37 am (UTC)(ie has a defect that is more expensive to fix than to buy a newer
better one)
I sold printers for over 5 years , and there were some Okidata
and Brother printers - where the drum unit was about $300. You can now buy a lazer printer that prints 5 times faster , has 5 times the memory , and printes 4 times the resolution for $300.
Like inket printers , lazer printers have also become disposable.
But hey ... for free you can't complain.
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Date: 2002-12-06 11:09 am (UTC)Yes, there is a reason it was thrown away.
Date: 2002-12-06 11:28 am (UTC)It's an HP LaserJetIIIp. Cartridges are $75. The closest equivalent on the market right now is a low-end Brother that runs about $300 and takes $90 cartriges. If it was genunine crap I would have left in the salvage pile (along side the two colour inkjet printers that are there).
As they work through the damaged apartments one-by-one, salvagable items are being piled in the basement. Most of it is smokey, sooty, smelly crap but some of it is useful. There was a microwave in there a while back that is gone now.
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Date: 2002-12-06 11:41 am (UTC)A laser printer is a printer that uses a mechanism somewhat like a photocopier where powdered toner is fused to the paper with heat. Unlike a photocopier, however, the elecrostatic charge that sticks the powder to the roller that applies it to the paper isn't generated with reflected light, but by very small mutant sea-bass with laser beams mounted on their foreheads.
They are superior for line-art and text since the lines and curves are "drawn" on with a laser beam they are very crisp with none of the "jaggies" you get with inkjet printers (which squirt little dots of ink at the paper). They also tend to be considerably faster than inkjet printers when you are just printing text. Great for invoices, letters, printing off code I'm debugging and that sort of thing. I am pleased.
Re: Yes, there is a reason it was thrown away.
Date: 2002-12-06 12:36 pm (UTC)The closest thing (from a durability and longevity standpoint)
would cost about $700+ now. Also the fact that a 92275A cartrige for $90 gives you about 3-4000 prints (drum included) means your costs of running that thing are almost nothing.
Good for you.
That Printer probably initially sold for about $1800 (in 1993)
All they Ill-tempered sea bass?
Date: 2002-12-06 02:05 pm (UTC)kinko - Mako
Hammermill - Hammerhead
Bright White - Great white
Paper Feed - Porpise Feed
Re:
Date: 2002-12-06 02:54 pm (UTC)now can you tell if I am being serious or not?