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Originally Posted by stevej37
Thanks for the answers.
I was leaning to 'laser' because of all the ink jet cartridges that have dried up on me over the years. (cheaper to just buy a new printer)
Went online and saw my local Walmart had a Canon Image Class..3 in 1 black laser...on sale for $99
Called the store and she said they had one left..so I grabbed my face mask and bought it.
I don't think I'll regret not getting a color one...most of the time with my ink-jet one of the color cart would be dried up and the colors would all be off anyways.
I noticed on the box that it comes with a 'starter' cartridge. I wonder how many sheets that will last for?
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Originally Posted by stevej37
Just now got it hooked up. It spits out full pages in half the time of my old ink-jet.
Had a small problem getting it to print. Somehow there ended up being two different choices for the printer in the window that drops down for selecting which printer. Of course, the one I saw was not the defaulted one. Fixed that...it's working great.
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Like so much technology of today the prices and performance is astonishing.
(Geezer voice) Why back in the day....
I bought a HP Laser Jet II for my desktop publishing side business. It was over $2,500 and printed at 8 pages per minute, 300 DPI. Heck I paid over $700 for my Dual band modem that I used for my BBS. I used Ventura Publisher and a 8086 based computer with 640K of ram and a 10 MB hard drive. Not even a full MB of RAM. It really taught me to be patient with computers.
That old HP was HUGE, and felt like it was filled with lead is was so heavy. Of course just a printer cable and no intern connect, because there was no such thing as the internet.
It served me well for 15 years or so. Having it repaired was silly when I could buy a new printer that was 600 or even 1200 DPI and faster and better in every way. I don't remember who I gave it to, but they were happy to have a printer with a slight line in every print for free.