[Info-vax] Nice printers for OpenVMS?

[Paul Sture]

On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 12:58:48 +0000, JohnF wrote:

> Dirk Munk <munk at home.nl> wrote:
>>>>
>>> What about Brother printers? They're just as good as Epson.
>> 
>> Not bad either, you're right.
>> The Brother C M Y toner kits are good for 3500 pages,
> 
> For b&w printing, my Brother HL-5370DW is great, at under $250 USD.
> And it's wireless/wired as well as duplex. The b&w toner cartridges are
> refillable two or three times, with bottles of toner ~$10. Then you do
> need a new cartridge for ~$75.
>    Color's the glitch. But most soho/workgroup situations print
> mostly b&w, with only a few occasional color pages. So the solution is
> to buy an auxiliary cheap-o color inkjet for those occasions. With that
> strategy in mind, Brother's the obvious choice for the workhorse b&w
> jobs. That's what you need to focus your thinking on.

Seconded for a SOHO/workgroup.  I have a Brother which is several years 
old and only supports USB, no duplex either, but it's a fine little 
workhorse.  You can always flip the pages to get double sided copies when 
required.  Unlike my old HP 2100 flipping freshly printed pages doesn't 
cause a jam, there is no constant odour of ozone and it powers itself off 
after a short while.  It wakes itself up when you send a job to it.

If I need colour printing I do have an old inkjet in a cupboard, but to 
be honest there are plenty of places around who will print a few pages 
for you quite cheaply and they have good quality equipment.  There are 
also self service machines which will print photos from CD, USB stick or 
camera card at quite reasonable rates, though I haven't tried these.

-- 
Paul Sture