[Info-vax] Nice printers for OpenVMS?

[ChrisQ]

On 08/02/12 11:56, Dirk Munk wrote:
> Ever since I have been using DCPS I have been in favour of using
> Postscript printers. Almost every operating system has support for
> Postscript, and for high-end printing it is the de facto standard.
>
> Finding an affordable Postscript printer however is not easy, and
> certainly not when you want duplex printing as well. You can get rather
> cheap laser printers with Postscript, but then they have no duplex
> printing and the toner kits are quite expensive too.
>
> But now I stumbled over two printers that look like the ones I was
> searching for. They are the Epson Workforce Pro WP-4090 DN and WP-4590
> DNF (Americas) or WP-4095 DN and WP-4595 DNF (Europe) inkjet printers.
> The DN types are pure printers, the DNF types multi-functionals with
> scanner etc. They have real Adobe level 3 postscript emulation, and I
> suppose that promises maximum compatibility with DCPS. They have USB and
> 100Mb ethernet interfaces (IPv4 and *IPv6*), but *no* WiFi. The biggest
> ink cartridges print 3400 pages(!!), and the ink is quite water and
> smudge proof (better than lasers), and doesn't fade for something like
> 100 years. Printing costs per page are extremely low.
>
> HP doesn't have inkjet Postscript printers any more, they had a few in
> the past.
>
> I'm not affiliated with Epson in any way, this is just to inform the
> members of this group.

I appreciate value for money and have affinity for the older laserjet 
series.
My first laser printer was ljII, bought new in 1987 and scrapped only 5 
years
or so ago. Ran s/h laserjet 4 and 5's for a while with no trouble, but 
recently
bought s/h an LJ5000N, which does A3/A4 and all the us sizes. Not had to do
anything to it for a year or more other than put paper in and being an older
model, all the consumables are cheap on Ebay. The A3 capability is really
usefull for schematic and pvb layout work and much more readable than A4,
where there is a lot of stuff on the page.

The old laserjets are rock solid and well worth considering...

Regards,

Chris