Next message: Darryl Lee: "Re: [WinMac] RE: Networked color printer at reasonable price?"
On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 09:59:36AM -0700, Ron LaPedis wrote:
> >Color inkjets are $99 and up. NICs are $10 and up. Why is the
> >cheapest network color printer around $1,000 and when you add
> >duplexing and Postscript, it goes up to around $2,000? And all of
> >the networkable Postscript printers are rated for 20,000 pages a
> >month!! I have Macs and PCs on my small home LAN and want a cheap
> >but good color printer of some kind for a reasonable price. I don't
> >print more than 100 pages/month. Any recommendations??
> >
> Ron LaPedis
Hi Ron... Yes, this situation sucks. I bought a Canon S450 for around
$99, and it has USB and Parallel. I liked the fact that it has
individual cartridges for CMYK, so you only have to replace M after
printing a lot of Valentine cards. :} It supports PC and Mac and has
parallel and a USB ports.
Axis Communications (www.axis.com) makes parallel->Ethernet "print
servers". The problem is that the Axis versions, as well as the OEM
Canon version (PrintPoint 140 BJC) *don't* support AppleTalk!
Arrrrrgh!
But they make an OEM version for Epson (AXIS PrintPoint 1440) that
works with the Epson Stylus Color 740 and 850, as well as the Epson
Stylus Photo 700 that claims to support AppleTalk. Argh, I was
kicking myself for not buying an Epson, which was probably around
the same price.
Check out all the details here:
http://www.axis.com/products/print_servers/choose.htm
It looks like Epson is the *only* printer company that still cares
about Macintosh network printing on the low-end.
--Darryl
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