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Reliable network printing



On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 09:46:24PM -0500, Ward Vandewege wrote:
> I got a Brother HL-2070N a while back, which is $159 at Newegg:
> 
>   http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16828113165
> 
> It's a 20ppm black laser, with _cheap_ consumables ($39 for a 2,500 page
> toner cartridge @ 5% coverage; $72 for a drum unit). It's very reliable too -
> I have yet to have a paper jam, and the print count is north of 600 pages.
> 
> Oh, yeah, and it does postscript, so it works perfectly from Linux and OS X.
> And presumably that from that other OS too, but I wouldn't know about that :)

I got an earlier version -- the HL-1670N. The page count is now
up to 13528 with no particular problems. The built-in duplexing
is nice, too.

-dsr-

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