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Vote for Ron Paul.

No. Voting for a racist, radical nut-job like Paul, just because he is on the right side of this issue, is not the answer any more than voting for this or that Democrat or Republican is the answer. The answer is removing corporate money from politics. Public campaign financing, a constitutional amendment removing, once and for all, the horrific notion of "corporate personhood" from our system of law and government, and instant runoff elections are the things we need in order to return control of our government to the citizens it was created to serve.

Why not just get a new printer? They are still made, you know.

The simple fact is that inkjet printing is just a bad idea, no matter what the costs are. It can't compete in any way with laser printing technology, except by using marketing to take advantage of peoples' stupidity and shortsightedness.

Coming from someone who has a color laser printer at home and loves it, I can't fully agree.

I may well buy one of these new kodak printers just for printing photos. I'm currently under the impression that you can't get good photo-paper prints from laser printers because they typically melt the glossy emulsion.

The printer I have is the Okidata 5500 . It cost $400 after a $200 mail in rebate (which I did get back in a month or two) and I haven't had to replace a toner cartridge yet*.

They are 'starter' cartridges but I've gone through two or three reams so far on them. Anyway, it can't be beat for copy paper printouts. I just want to print out photos for framing on occasion inkjets seem to do that better.

Kodak's little program here may mean I actually buy one instead of hitting the kiosks at Walmart or a photo store.

*Not counting that messy incident when I realized that the toner cartridges are two seperate pieces, and that the 'lock/unlock' switch didn't lock it in the printer, but locked the halves together. That cost me $120 and an hour of cleanup.

BTW Fucktard, where the fuck do you see this as being a postscript printer? It's certainly not in OkiData's own specs

So I call "bollocks" on your research.

Who the fuck is the twat now?

No not ink jet, dot matrix!
http://www.okidata.com/mkt/html/nf/ML186Home.html
We still have several old Okidata printers at my office just for printing out multipart forms and for labels.

It is what we used back in the dark ages. Now if you could find an old Okidata 92 you would be all set. I think they will last until the sun goes nova.

This is true. There is also a second issue: when consumer demand evaporates, there is no longer a reason for building a cheap, flimsy version of the device. However, there is still a niche for industrial-strength dot matrix printers: muffler shops, etc.

OKIdata has an extensive line of 9- and 24-pin printers built like tanks, in the $500 range.

Other esoteric applications will insure an ongoing demand for durable equipment.

Also, in a post-Armageddon society, you can re-ink a ribbon more easily than you can refill a toner cartridge.

Sorry to be so late, but I just caught this in M2. Okidata continues to make impact printers. Check the bottom of the page for 24 pin printers.

and still do :)

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