[Info-vax] OT: HP Poised to merge PC and printer divisions

[Paul Sture]

On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:05:26 -0700, mathog wrote:

> Paul Sture wrote:
>>> Rich Jordan wrote:
> 
>>> Well, this one is simple to answer.  Use Brother printers.  They don't
>>> charge you anything to talk to you, before or after the sale.  Even
>>> after the printer is out of warranty.
> 
>> I've been very happy with the Brother printer I have. It just works, no
>> fuss.
> 
> +1 for the Brother printers.  We have a 5250DN (a little double sided
> laser, the current version of it is the 5370DW) at home and that thing
> has been fast and reliable since day one.  I'm probably asking for it
> just by saying this, but in the 5  years we have had it we have never
> had a page that didn't print correctly.  Mechanically it is great - so
> far not even a single paper jam.

Mine's a cheaper USB only version.  No double sided, but it's easy to 
print even pages, flip the paper and then do the odd pages.  Not that I 
do anything like the amount of manual printing I used to.

No paper jams here either.
 
> The one and only thing I don't like about that printer is that peak
> current draw can top 10A, so it does not play nicely on a shared circuit
> with anything else that uses a lot of current.  Average current use is
> much lower, and when it goes into sleep mode it only uses about 9W of
> power.

Ah, the "delights" of circuit breakers which trip at lowish levels...  It 
took me a while to get used to that.  Fortunately my printer doesn't use 
so much.

-- 
Paul Sture