Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:> We standardized on eBay LaserJet 2300DTNs a decade or so back. Most of > them need new rollers, but our laser repair guy charged us $100 for a > house call to do that last time. Their Ethernet is 100base-T, which is > fine for a printer. Our printers are in one corner of my office, next > to the main Supermicro server and about 8 feet from the cable modem, so > wiring is not an issue. > > HP discontinued the #10 print cartridges they use, but they're available > cheap from overseas. > > Cheers > > Phil HobbsSounds like you are about due for replacement printers. If you have a lot of laser printers in an enclosed space, watch out for ozone buildup. It is not healthy. I have a pending patent application for a simple cure. Two toner cartridges for the Canon printer cost CAD $30.95: https://www.amazon.ca/Inkfirst-Cartridge-3484B001-Compatible- Remanufactured/dp/B01MAV27XX/ The price for one cartidge is USD $24.99: Toner Cartridge Replacement for Canon ImageCLASS LBP6030w LBP6000 MF3010 https://www.amazon.com/Valuetoner-Compatible-Cartridge-Replacement- ImageClass/dp/B00R56IVWQ/ -- MRM
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Reply by ●August 19, 20232023-08-19
Reply by ●August 20, 20232023-08-20
On a sunny day (Sat, 19 Aug 2023 09:09:59 -0700) it happened John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote in <5dp1eihpecf4k1lu8h06r93jo0o5rg3esl@4ax.com>:>On Sat, 19 Aug 2023 15:11:51 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> >wrote: > >>On a sunny day (Sat, 19 Aug 2023 07:23:00 -0700) it happened John Larkin >><jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote in >><12k1eil96dsb2ek3i34lgofvdev2teo2kp@4ax.com>: >> >>>On Sat, 19 Aug 2023 11:01:55 -0000 (UTC), Mike Monett VE3BTI >>><spamme@not.com> wrote: >>> >>>>Still playing with Inkjet printers and paying outrageous prices for ink >>>>that dries out? >>>> >>>>Looking at lasers but finding the price too high? >>>> >>>>Voila. Canon released a black and white laser printer for $99, with Canon >>>>quality and reliability. USB interface. Buy it here: >>>> >>>>Canon imageCLASS MF3010 Laser Multifunction Printer, Black >>>> >>>>https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00DU7K50A >>>> >>>>Or in the states >>>> >>>>https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DU7K50A/ >>>> >>>>- for $329. Donno why the price is so high, but vendors can charge anything >>>>they can get away with. Buy it from Canada. >>>> >>>>Need a printer stand on wheels that fits the printer for $35.99? >>>> >>>>SONGMICS 3 Tier Printer Stand, Printer Table with Wheels, Rolling Printer >>>>Cart, Printer Desk with Metal Frame for Home Office, 16.1 x 12.2 x 26.8 >>>>Inches, Black >>>> >>>>https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B08FDVR5JW >>>> >>>>In the states, $35.99 + $25.25 Shipping & Import Fees >>>> >>>>https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08FDVR5JW >>> >>>I got tired of HP ripoffs and got a Brother color printer, which comes >>>with a massive amount of toner and refills are cheap. I didn't realize >>>until I got it that it prints on both sides. >>> >>>https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XDSMKLT >>> >>>Big but really nice. >> >>I have an Epson R200 inkjet color printer and used it mainly to print labels on DVDs, looked really nice. >>Yes some ink dries out, I bought an ink system for it with big bottles back then. >>It is sitting in a box somewhere, all goes via gifs and jpgs and video over the net these days, >>pdfs with pictures too. >> >>My first printer was a Brother thermal one to print receipts for my repair shop. >>Have some other BW printer somewhere too. >> >>Use your cellphone to show things.... >>BW printing??? Who needs it? >> > >I like to print documents and mark them up. I can do that in bed with >coffee or chocolate handy. > >Schematics too. We have a wonderful Sharp networked >printer/copier/scanner at work that prints B-sized schematics. > >US 'A' size schematics are too small for me, and a screen doesn't have >the same feel as a nice stapled multi-sheet schematic that you can >scribble on. > >A printed schematic is essentially three (or at least 2.5d) >dimensional, like the real world. Brains form and manipulate 3D images >of the world, and a stack of paper feels like that to me; I know where >the clock buffer is in paper space. It will later become a multilayer >PC board, same sort of spatial concept. > >A schematic or a PCB layout on a cell phone might work for a tiny >design, but ours run to 20 B-size sheets and 1000 components.All very true. I have some binders with A4 sheets of pencil drawings of circuits I designed and build, those are also scanned of course and on harddisk. https://panteltje.nl/panteltje/z80/system14/diagrams/index.html that is from the eighties... Now how will we look at what we do with spice and things like that these days in say 50 years from now? As to does not fit, I use - [in Linux] - xv as viewer in xv -nolimits diagram.gif And have a nice big monitor and an even bigger TV if must be, even a remote wireless keyboard https://panteltje.nl/pub/small_keyboard_IXIMG_0914.JPG that works with a Raspberry Pi, and that Pi can be connected via USB to my big Samsung TV used as monitor. Oh, I forgot, have a laser projector too, if it must be really big... :-)
Reply by ●August 20, 20232023-08-20
On Sun, 20 Aug 2023 05:47:48 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> wrote:>On a sunny day (Sat, 19 Aug 2023 09:09:59 -0700) it happened John Larkin ><jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote in ><5dp1eihpecf4k1lu8h06r93jo0o5rg3esl@4ax.com>: > >>On Sat, 19 Aug 2023 15:11:51 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> >>wrote: >> >>>On a sunny day (Sat, 19 Aug 2023 07:23:00 -0700) it happened John Larkin >>><jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote in >>><12k1eil96dsb2ek3i34lgofvdev2teo2kp@4ax.com>: >>> >>>>On Sat, 19 Aug 2023 11:01:55 -0000 (UTC), Mike Monett VE3BTI >>>><spamme@not.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>>Still playing with Inkjet printers and paying outrageous prices for ink >>>>>that dries out? >>>>> >>>>>Looking at lasers but finding the price too high? >>>>> >>>>>Voila. Canon released a black and white laser printer for $99, with Canon >>>>>quality and reliability. USB interface. Buy it here: >>>>> >>>>>Canon imageCLASS MF3010 Laser Multifunction Printer, Black >>>>> >>>>>https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00DU7K50A >>>>> >>>>>Or in the states >>>>> >>>>>https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DU7K50A/ >>>>> >>>>>- for $329. Donno why the price is so high, but vendors can charge anything >>>>>they can get away with. Buy it from Canada. >>>>> >>>>>Need a printer stand on wheels that fits the printer for $35.99? >>>>> >>>>>SONGMICS 3 Tier Printer Stand, Printer Table with Wheels, Rolling Printer >>>>>Cart, Printer Desk with Metal Frame for Home Office, 16.1 x 12.2 x 26.8 >>>>>Inches, Black >>>>> >>>>>https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B08FDVR5JW >>>>> >>>>>In the states, $35.99 + $25.25 Shipping & Import Fees >>>>> >>>>>https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08FDVR5JW >>>> >>>>I got tired of HP ripoffs and got a Brother color printer, which comes >>>>with a massive amount of toner and refills are cheap. I didn't realize >>>>until I got it that it prints on both sides. >>>> >>>>https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XDSMKLT >>>> >>>>Big but really nice. >>> >>>I have an Epson R200 inkjet color printer and used it mainly to print labels on DVDs, looked really nice. >>>Yes some ink dries out, I bought an ink system for it with big bottles back then. >>>It is sitting in a box somewhere, all goes via gifs and jpgs and video over the net these days, >>>pdfs with pictures too. >>> >>>My first printer was a Brother thermal one to print receipts for my repair shop. >>>Have some other BW printer somewhere too. >>> >>>Use your cellphone to show things.... >>>BW printing??? Who needs it? >>> >> >>I like to print documents and mark them up. I can do that in bed with >>coffee or chocolate handy. >> >>Schematics too. We have a wonderful Sharp networked >>printer/copier/scanner at work that prints B-sized schematics. >> >>US 'A' size schematics are too small for me, and a screen doesn't have >>the same feel as a nice stapled multi-sheet schematic that you can >>scribble on. >> >>A printed schematic is essentially three (or at least 2.5d) >>dimensional, like the real world. Brains form and manipulate 3D images >>of the world, and a stack of paper feels like that to me; I know where >>the clock buffer is in paper space. It will later become a multilayer >>PC board, same sort of spatial concept. >> >>A schematic or a PCB layout on a cell phone might work for a tiny >>design, but ours run to 20 B-size sheets and 1000 components. > >All very true. > >I have some binders with A4 sheets of pencil drawings of circuits I designed and build, >those are also scanned of course and on harddisk. > https://panteltje.nl/panteltje/z80/system14/diagrams/index.html > that is from the eighties... >Now how will we look at what we do with spice and things like that these days in say 50 years from now?We'll still be the primates that evolved in the jungles or wherever, so some things will be the same. Books, chairs, beds, coffee, bread, chocolate, butter are probably here to stay. Veggie based "impossible" burgers are awful, and probably won't last.> >As to does not fit, I use - [in Linux] - xv as viewer in > xv -nolimits diagram.gif >And have a nice big monitor and an even bigger TV if must be, even a remote wireless keyboard > https://panteltje.nl/pub/small_keyboard_IXIMG_0914.JPG > that works with a Raspberry Pi, and that Pi can be connected via USB to my big Samsung TV used as monitor. >Oh, I forgot, have a laser projector too, if it must be really big... :-) >
Reply by ●August 20, 20232023-08-20
On 8/19/23 09:09, John Larkin wrote:> > > I like to print documents and mark them up. I can do that in bed with > coffee or chocolate handy.Hmmm, OK, do you get better print quality with chocolate or coffee?> > Schematics too. We have a wonderful Sharp networked > printer/copier/scanner at work that prints B-sized schematics. > > US 'A' size schematics are too small for me, and a screen doesn't have > the same feel as a nice stapled multi-sheet schematic that you can > scribble on. > > A printed schematic is essentially three (or at least 2.5d) > dimensional, like the real world. Brains form and manipulate 3D images > of the world, and a stack of paper feels like that to me; I know where > the clock buffer is in paper space. It will later become a multilayer > PC board, same sort of spatial concept. > > A schematic or a PCB layout on a cell phone might work for a tiny > design, but ours run to 20 B-size sheets and 1000 components. > > > > > > >
Reply by ●August 20, 20232023-08-20
On Sat, 19 Aug 2023 07:23:00 -0700, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote:>On Sat, 19 Aug 2023 11:01:55 -0000 (UTC), Mike Monett VE3BTI ><spamme@not.com> wrote: > >>Still playing with Inkjet printers and paying outrageous prices for ink >>that dries out? >> >>Looking at lasers but finding the price too high? >> >>Voila. Canon released a black and white laser printer for $99, with Canon >>quality and reliability. USB interface. Buy it here: >> >>Canon imageCLASS MF3010 Laser Multifunction Printer, Black >> >>https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00DU7K50A >> >>Or in the states >> >>https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DU7K50A/ >> >>- for $329. Donno why the price is so high, but vendors can charge anything >>they can get away with. Buy it from Canada. >> >>Need a printer stand on wheels that fits the printer for $35.99? >> >>SONGMICS 3 Tier Printer Stand, Printer Table with Wheels, Rolling Printer >>Cart, Printer Desk with Metal Frame for Home Office, 16.1 x 12.2 x 26.8 >>Inches, Black >> >>https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B08FDVR5JW >> >>In the states, $35.99 + $25.25 Shipping & Import Fees >> >>https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08FDVR5JW > >I got tired of HP ripoffs and got a Brother color printer, which comes >with a massive amount of toner and refills are cheap. I didn't realize >until I got it that it prints on both sides. > >https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XDSMKLT > >Big but really nice.I also settled on Brother printers, specifically a MFC-9840CDW bought in 2008, which is now getting a bit long in the tooth - the rubber stuff is glazing and/or getting sticky. I've repaired it a few times, and upgraded the memory to 256 Mbytes when memory had become cheap. After 15 years, it owes me nothing. I'll probably upgrade to a MFC-L8905CDW. I have a hard-wired home Ethernet, and this is the network printer. I print mostly from various MacOS computers, but at least the old printer was best managed from a Windows laptop. Which I now have - too many things in the lab required a Window machine. Joe Gwinn
Reply by ●August 21, 20232023-08-21
On 2023-08-20, wmartin <wwm@wwmartin.net> wrote:> On 8/19/23 09:09, John Larkin wrote: >> >> >> I like to print documents and mark them up. I can do that in bed with >> coffee or chocolate handy. > > Hmmm, OK, do you get better print quality with chocolate or coffee? >There's no comparison, chocolate is a wax crayon and coffee is a watercolour, -- Jasen. 🇺🇦 Слава Україні
Reply by ●August 21, 20232023-08-21
On Sun, 20 Aug 2023 12:37:01 -0700, wmartin <wwm@wwmartin.net> wrote:>On 8/19/23 09:09, John Larkin wrote: >> >> >> I like to print documents and mark them up. I can do that in bed with >> coffee or chocolate handy. > >Hmmm, OK, do you get better print quality with chocolate or coffee?Chocolate is best for analog circuits.
Reply by ●August 21, 20232023-08-21
Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> writes:>USB? Ick. Printers should all talk over the network. Who wants >to dedicate a computer to serving the printer? What happens when your >next OS doesn't include support for the printer?Agreed. HP Jet Direct. -- A host is a host from coast to coast...............wb8foz@panix.com & no one will talk to a host that's close.......................... Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
Reply by ●August 21, 20232023-08-21
On 8/21/2023 7:59 AM, David Lesher wrote:> Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> writes: > > >> USB? Ick. Printers should all talk over the network. Who wants >> to dedicate a computer to serving the printer? What happens when your >> next OS doesn't include support for the printer? > > Agreed. HP Jet Direct.That's the approach I've taken with my older LJs (and a very short printer cable). Most pther "peripherals" have been selected to have an onboard NIC.
Reply by ●August 24, 20232023-08-24
On 19/08/2023 15:23, John Larkin wrote:> On Sat, 19 Aug 2023 11:01:55 -0000 (UTC), Mike Monett VE3BTI > <spamme@not.com> wrote: > >> Still playing with Inkjet printers and paying outrageous prices for ink >> that dries out? >> >> Looking at lasers but finding the price too high? >> >> Voila. Canon released a black and white laser printer for $99, with Canon >> quality and reliability. USB interface. Buy it here: >> >> Canon imageCLASS MF3010 Laser Multifunction Printer, Black >> >> https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00DU7K50A >> >> Or in the states >> >> https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DU7K50A/ >> >> - for $329. Donno why the price is so high, but vendors can charge anything >> they can get away with. Buy it from Canada.That does seem excessively high. Usually price in US $ = price in GB£ for most hitech goods. Amazon UK have that one for £167.91 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Canon-i-SENSYS-MF3010-Multifunction-Printer/dp/B005VNCHMA/ At least I think that is the comparable model for 240v.>> >> Need a printer stand on wheels that fits the printer for $35.99? >> >> SONGMICS 3 Tier Printer Stand, Printer Table with Wheels, Rolling Printer >> Cart, Printer Desk with Metal Frame for Home Office, 16.1 x 12.2 x 26.8 >> Inches, Black >> >> https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B08FDVR5JW >> >> In the states, $35.99 + $25.25 Shipping & Import Fees >> >> https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08FDVR5JW > > I got tired of HP ripoffs and got a Brother color printer, which comes > with a massive amount of toner and refills are cheap. I didn't realize > until I got it that it prints on both sides. > > https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XDSMKLT > > Big but really nice.If you don't mind a physically big unit there are some good end-of-line bargains to be had. I got a new Dell 1320C way back in 2007. Its print quality at the time was as near to photoreal as makes no difference. I soon got a complete spare unit from a surplus place just to get the 2 sets of "free" Dell toner that came with it. This was because assembly and commissioning was a bit tricky and so many customers trashed the main print head assembling it that there was a big oversupply of toner from dead machines. By the time they ran out the after market toner makers had perfected cloned toner cartridges... The second print head finally gave up the ghost earlier this year - the black is so faint as to be almost unreadable. I replaced it with a Xerox 6510 also an end of line physically big colour laser with a nice print engine. It does duplex printing too (once you find the right setting). My even older Samsung duplex mono laser is also on its last legs and although it still prints OK it adds a few thin lines here and there. -- Martin Brown
