HP Printers

[Mike Ford]

At 01:27 PM 9/19/04 -0400, Barry Watzman wrote:
>Just a note on economic viability, you can buy entire working HP 4 printers
>-- HP 4 Plus, the 12ppm version -- for well under $50, so putting in a $60
>repair on a vastly inferior Laserjet II is of questionable economic
>viability.

I talked to a friend today that scraps printers, and indeed the once mighty 
have fallen. The plain 4 isn't worth anything to him, and a nice 4 plus is 
about $30. I may just pick up a 4 plus from him, since we tend to leave the 
printer on 24/7, and the plus seems to have better powerdown ability.

Snooping on HPs web site I found a printer cost comparison done by some 
third party and I am assuming including all the factors like depriciation 
and consumables. The LJ4 had the lowest cost about 0.012 per page, with 
most about double that until the most recent high end LJ like the 8000. Ink 
jets are highway robbers by comparison.