[geeks] cheap printers rock

Peter L. Wargo geeks at sunhelp.org
Sat Jan 5 01:11:01 CST 2002


I have a good document, if you need.

-Pete

On Friday, January 4, 2002, at 11:02 PM, Bill Bradford wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 11:49:29PM -0500, dave at cca.org wrote:
>> I think the factory I work at was once offered a $5,000 printer for
>> free, if we promised to buy all the consumables from them. (This was a
>> production machine, not an office printer. They expect you to run them
>> eight hours a day, non stop.)
>
> Nicest inkjet I ever used was a HP Paintjet (something-jet) 1200CPS.
>
> 1200dpi, color, *postscript* - and the 3 ink carts cost about $30 each.
>
> but god, once I got it working with Ghostscript/print filters, it was
> *beautiful*.
>
> Sadly, I've forgotten EVERYTHING i knew about setting up printers with
> Ghostscript, etc, since 1998, and have to re-learn it.
>
> Bill
>
> --
> Bill Bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> Austin, TX
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