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After years of messing with Appletalk printers and trying
to use combination of other networking solutions, I find
the HP network printers the most reliable for combination
PC/MAC printing. HP 4MP, 5MP, 6MP, 4050 TN 4100 TN
and 4100 TN have all been workhorses.
I had good luck with the Espon 900N with the network
card for PC and Mac but Epson changes color printer
models faster than I change my ink cartridges. I'd
read the specs on the Espson Stylus 980N and see if
if suits your needs.
Visit:
http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/ProductCategory.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@1241823219.1001991848@@@@&BV_EngineID=dadccdgljmkebfdmcfjgckidnf.0&category=products&oid=-8165
for their inkjet printer selection. The prices go up based on
width of printing, number or colors and duty cycle. The
EPSON Stylus Color 980N sound like the one for you. THe
980 has an "optional network card" and you might safe
some money by going with the 980 and adding the
network card, but you might invite some snags, as I experienced
with the 900. Also got a 900N with card and it worked as advertised.
Check on drivers and your OS before you buy.
At 05:25 PM 10/1/2001 +0000, you wrote:
>winmac Digest 1 Oct 2001 17:25:43 -0000 Issue 136
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>Networked color printer at reasonable price?
> 631 by: Ron LaPedis
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>Re: Networked color printer at reasonable price? DITTO
> 632 by: RHagen
> 633 by: Donovan, Harold
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>From: Ron LaPedis <ronl@laserphernalia.com>
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>Subject: Networked color printer at reasonable price?
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>>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
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>Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 22:12:47 -0500
>From: RHagen <rhagen@cinci.rr.com>
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>Subject: Re: [WinMac] Networked color printer at reasonable price? DITTO
>
> >>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
>
>
>I would love to find the same thing. Why isn't there something more
>reasonably priced? We have a network of a PC, Mac & PC Laptop - would
>love to share a new color printer - but the choices are way too expensive.
>
>Rosemary
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>From: "Donovan, Harold" <donovan.harold@nbpub.com>
>To: "'winmac@iffy.com'" <winmac@iffy.com>
>Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 14:26:09 -0300
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>Subject: RE: [WinMac] Networked color printer at reasonable price? DITTO
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>I have two non-standard printers on my network of PCs and Macs. One is
>shared through a workstation, but it can only be seen by the PCs (it is
>hooked up to a PC workstation. The other is shared through an HP Jet Direct
>adapter which is connected to the printer with a parallel cable. The box
>has an IP address associated with it and it has Appletalk loaded. The older
>macs can see it with Appletalk. The newer macs see it using IP. The HP box
>cost us $179.00 Cdn and works very well. Any of the older printers can be
>connected to it, as long as they have either a parallel port ar a local talk
>port.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: RHagen [SMTP:rhagen@cinci.rr.com]
> > Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 12:13 AM
> > To: winmac@iffy.com
> > Subject: Re: [WinMac] Networked color printer at reasonable price?
> > DITTO
> >
> > >>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
> >
> >
> > I would love to find the same thing. Why isn't there something more
> > reasonably priced? We have a network of a PC, Mac & PC Laptop - would
> > love to share a new color printer - but the choices are way too expensive.
> >
> > Rosemary
> >
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