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Darryl Lee wrote:
> 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!
>
Go get a HP JetDirect EX. $140 at Insight.Com:
http://www.insight.com/web/apps/productpresentation/index.php?product_id=HP121005
HP JetDirects do AppleTalk, they do lp, they do Novell, they do just
about anything that can be sqoze through an ethernet cable.
I would never think about anything for connecting a parallel port
printer to a network but one of these...they're damn near bulletproof;
we have dozens (internal and external) on our network.
To answer Ron's question...the main reason networked inkjet printers are
more expensive is that they're typically marketed to a workgroup
situation with higher page counts and demands for faster printing, as well.
Slapping a cheapo inkjet on a netowkr typically kills itwithin a few
months as people tend to go 'Oh a network color printer...cool! I'll
print these 500 copies of the annual report right now...' :-/
--
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group
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