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To: Alberta's Child

No advice on a color laser printer; but, a monochrome laser printer for printing ordinary business letters and memos etc; is IMO a smart investment. They are under $100, sometimes $60-$70 on sale and would save W & T on your color printer. I have a Brother mono HL-5170 printer I have had for a dozen years, it has worked flawlessly, the carts are $22 on ebay, and I’ve beaten the crap out of it. It’s also been in a construction zone and probably sucked a fair amount of dust. Indestructible.


21 posted on 12/07/2018 12:59:00 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

+1. I switched to a monochrome laser printer for home use about a year ago after coming to the realization that I basically never need to print color. Mine’s an inexpensive ($99) Samsung. What I like is that it’s tiny, fast, and no smudges. And no liquid ink cartridges.


22 posted on 12/07/2018 1:17:27 PM PST by Yardstick
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder
There's one reason why I hadn't given much thought to using separate B&W and color printers:

At my level of use, these things tend to last so long that they are functionally obsolete before they physically break down. The way I look at it, owning two separate printers is a bit like owning two similar cars and putting 5,000 miles per year on each of them instead of just putting 10,000 miles on one car.

62 posted on 12/10/2018 2:21:21 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("The Russians escaped while we weren't watching them ... like Russians will.")
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