[Coco] Printing on cheap crappy printers with a CoCo was Re:Printing on a Coco with modern printers.

[Greg Law]

I can't image you would have any problems with 20 pound paper. Granted, my 
experience is with the Brother monochrome printers (a Brother 2140 or 2170 
or such I used for nearly a decade without any issues and now a Brother 
HL-6180DW wireless laser with duplexing and that holds a full ream of 
paper).

I can say that Brother is the only printer that I've used that has never 
given me a lick of problems. I've yet to have an HP printer last more than a 
year. I've been through two HP inkjets that both went belly up just at one 
year, and an HP laser that blew the network port after about three months 
and then started printing double (e.g. not cleaning the drum each cycle) a 
few months after that. I finally got fed up with HP and went back to Brother 
and haven't regretted that decision at all. Didn't even bother to try to get 
the HP laser repaired under warranty.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Gene Heskett
Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2014 1:33 PM
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Subject: Re: [Coco] Printing on cheap crappy printers with a CoCo was 
Re:Printing on a Coco with modern printers.

That is just as true of the low end lasers, but the print quality is
buckets better, and a $75 toner cart (for one color) will still print 5x
the pages per $ spent using the laser.  Paper cost is a tossup if you
discount that the lasers seem to want 24lb paper.  But I have a ream of
20lb on hand that will get feed tested in the next year because I am about
due to refresh all my linuxcnc documentation, on a job with the HL3170CDW's
duplexer turned on.  Its about 650 pages in 4 volumes.  It works well with
the heavier 24lb.  And out in the shop, I need the ruggedness of the 24lb,
so the 20lb will get tested on the startup book since I am well beyond that
level of usage.

So, for me, its ink jets 0, lasers 1 for game score so far.  But since my
game isn't fully played yet as I am coming up on the 80th, the final game
score is still TBD. :)