Posted on 07/01/2009 7:27:02 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder
This an unrestricted tout of an "incredible" printer. It's a Brother HL-2140 monochrome-only, but there are a few other brands like this.
Monochrome only, laser printer, the cartridges are REALLY cheap, and they have significant life. The cart that comes with the printer is good for 1000 pages. The replacement ones are 1500 pages.
Tired of having to refill or rebuy ink-jet printer cartridges, especially since 98% of my printing is just monochrome anyway. This little dude was SIXTY BUCKS at Fry's, including the cartridge. It's USB-only (no parallel input) That may have SOME impact on one's ability (in Windows) to designate the printer as your default printer.
This litle champ is just awesome. Of course, it's brand new so I can't give you the 5-year life report. But it is fast, and for $60 on sale, maybe $80 normal, it's a completely ridiculous steal of a deal.
“I have an HP 4000 purchased in 1999.”
My experience with hp isn’t quite so good, but it is probably because 1995-2002 I lived at the beach and the way every OTHER piece of metal corroded, I suspect this wasn’t optimum for the insides of what I *think* was an hp 2c or 2p. It started out pretty well but the every-four-month $160 repair routine got old quickly.
I agree that off-brand refills, for many years, just sucked. Recently I have had better luck with refills from Cartridge World. OTOH, if you are getting that many thousand pages from a genuine cart, it seems like false economy to try to save a few bucks. I’m not exactly head over heels with the idea of refilling them myself. It’s one of those life-jobs I’d prefer to delegate!
I have an HP 2p in the basement. Great little printer and got a lot of use out of it but it now prints solid black on every page.
The 4000 is an office, not residential, machine and I think HP built them with higher quality.
And, as you say, salt water atmosphere and high humidity is not great for printer life.
Jack
I have a Brother Wireless Laser printer. Once you set it up, you were golden with no cable to a PC. Wireless is the best
And what doesn’t “bleed” dries up...
I’ve never had that happen, thankfully. I printed so many pictures (3 sets of probably 1000) that my ink never had a chance to dry up! LOL.
Which one do you have?
My main one is an Epson R1800. I bought a small HP Photosmart, which was a big mistake. It bleeds ink.
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