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- Subject: [Discuss] color laser printer
- From: Steven at simplycircus.com (Steven Santos)
- Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 23:08:26 -0400
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The wifi settings and security on most printers is very poor. Having it turned on gives you an easy access point to break in. --- Steven Santos Director Simply Circus, Inc. 86 Los Angeles Street Newton, MA 02458 P: 617-527-0667 F: 617-934-1870 E: Steven at SimplyCircus.com On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Tom Metro <tmetro+blu at gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks to everyone for the feedback on your experiences with color laser > printers. Some follow-up comments below. > > > Dan Ritter wrote: >> My take on printing: >> >> - general document printing? Get a mono laser. >> >> - occasional photo printing? Get CostCo or any of the reputable >> online print bureaus to do it. >> >> - special project color printing? Local print shop. >> >> - frequent photo or spot color printing? See if you can justify >> a thermal wax printer...[or] buy a cheap color inkjet >> >> So, for low volume color printing and somewhat higher mono, I >> would suggest you get a mono laser -- Brothers are decent -- and >> send photos to an online service. > > Funny how this advice has held the same for 15 years or more. What does > that say about the advancements in printer technology? > > > Daniel Barrett wrote: >> ...has noticeably superior output quality. A lot has >> changed in the past N years, I guess! > > We've seen lots of incremental improvements. Higher resolution. Faster > print speeds. Bigger buffers. Fancier UIs. And lots of formerly high-end > features, like networking and duplexing, moving to mid- to low-end > models. And lots of cost reduction. > > But the print technology itself seems largely unchanged. > > I guess with less need for printing and competitive pressure pushing > margins down, there isn't much incentive to do R&D. > > >> Reading printer reviews online is uninformative. Nearly every printer >> has detractors screaming that it's the worst thing ever. > > True. It would be useful to have user reviews supplemented by > statistics, like return rate (something Amazon could choose to publish, > but they don't), and warranty repair rate (something the manufacturer > could choose to publish, but they don't). > > >> Toner is expensive ($300-400 per set of genuine HP toner) but I don't >> care. > > Wow. And thus someone else commented that they picked up a color laser > on sale for less than (or close to) the cost of the toner cartridges. > That seems to be taking the razor blade model to the extreme. > > > Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >>> ...another reason why I favor laser printers over inkjets is that you >>> can leave them unused for several months and not have the ink >>> cartridges dry out. >> >> At least in the Canon PIXMA line, this has not been a problem in the >> last several years. > > True. I've had a PIXMA for 5+ years, and although I've experienced cases > where the 3rd party ink tanks seem to stop working before they appear to > be completely empty, I've never had to clean or unclog the print head. > > > Jack Coats wrote: >> Duplexing is 'manual' rather than automatic and I do it on occasion. >> It is pretty easy. > > Sure, but it is enough of an inconvenience that if I was printing an 8 > page document, I wouldn't bother with it. Where as if it was just a > matter of checking a box in the printer settings, I'd likely duplex > almost everything. > > > Dan Ritter wrote: >> Color lasers are more mechanically complex than mono; they break >> more often and in stranger ways. The color toners last for a >> year or so, but the mono toners are lower-volume and more >> expensive. > > That's what I figured. > > That's enough of a reason not to bother with color, if I don't have a > compelling use for it. > > >> Finally, the only suitable interface for a printer these days is >> wired ethernet. Wireless will work in some circumstances, but >> likely be unreliable when you haven't printed anything in a few >> weeks. > > I did notice a number of reviews for the Brother printers that > complained about wireless connectivity dropping. Also some discussion > about how the printer's various low power modes impact wireless > connectivity. (Apparently with some models, the most power saving modes > will result in the printer losing connectivity.) > > I had assumed that any printer supporting wireless Ethernet would also > support wired Ethernet, but apparently thats not the case. > > > Bill Ricker wrote: >> ...it has a physical Ethernet interface, not just WiFi. I don't want my >> printer serving as a WiFi intrusion point. > > Intrusion point? > > -Tom > > -- > Tom Metro > The Perl Shop, Newton, MA, USA > "Predictable On-demand Perl Consulting." > http://www.theperlshop.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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