[Dr. Sivana]

I just can’t justify the improvements in performance in my 2 PC’s against trashing a perfectly functional Dell laserprinter.

Can you tell it that its a garden variety HP Laserjet 6 or something? Usually consumer lasers have some compatibility modes.

On the other hand, I do remember having a leased $15,000 Canon color laser for proofing, and Canon would not make Windows XP64 drivers for it. That was insane, as the audience that printer was made for was far more likely to be using such software.

[Hodar]

Running the Dell P1500.

It’s a good solid workhorse. However, I have been unsuccessful in getting this (32 bit driver) to play well with a 64 bit OS.

Granted, I only paid $99 for it. But there is nothing wrong with it, and I put a 6,000 page engine in it, plus 32 Meg of RAM. For home use, it’s perfect. Not too large, robust, never jams, clean prints and inexpensive.

And I understand your point regarding the expensive printer and support for future OS releases. Having worked on the PC side of the house, to get a certified driver for an old product is going to cost at least $150K. The business decision is a simple one. How many sales will result fromthe cost of $150K investment in a new driver? Had a friend who spent several thousand on a SCSI driver that was written for Win98SE. For whatever reason, the compatibility mode didn’t work when he upgraded to Win2K - so he had to toss the scanner after just a year of use.