Gregory's Server@lotographia @essjax @ifixcoinops
These days I think the key is to buy used enterprise grade stuff. The stuff consumers suffer would not fly in a managed-fleet of anything. Sadly, even used, a non-shitified Ricoh or FujiXerox will cost way more than a consumer grade new device - flip-side, it'll likely run for longer and not shit-the-bed on consumables.
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@essjax @lotographia @ifixcoinops Funny enough I went googling for HP LJ4 toner cartridges on the off-chance they were still made... then I realised the devices'd be a quarter century old 😂  @irix @essjax @lotographia @ifixcoinops but still printing in volume, surely! @essjax @irix @lotographia @ifixcoinops I had one till last year and sadly, the seals are fragile now, so it just smears across the page @irix this tracks. Picked up a LaserJet Pro 400 at an auction for nearly free. Had 40000+ pages printed on it, worked perfectly in first print. Hell someone even left me paper and a basically full toner cartridge in it. @DialupDownload I figure its like fleet-cars, they can get thrashed around so bit of a gamble buying a used one but the benefit is that for printers the contracts are often pay-per-printed-page so they get well serviced (downtime means no $$ for the vendor) and tend to be optimised for serviceability, reliability, consumable-efficiency over bells & whistles. |
@irix @lotographia @ifixcoinops i bet an old HP LaserJet 4 from the mid 90s and a million pages printed would work bloody fine eh. I remember when they were *good*