Choosing a Personal Printer For the Long Haul

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday October 1, 2009 @02:17AM from the i-thought-they-were-disposable-now dept.

The Optimizer writes "After 16 years of service, my laser printer, a NEC Silentwriter 95, is finally wearing its internals out, and I need to find a replacement. It's printed over 30,000 pages and survived a half-dozen long-distance moves without giving me any trouble. I believe it's done so well for two reasons. First, it's sturdily built and hails from an era when every fraction of a penny didn't have to be cost-cut out of manufacturing. The other reason was its software. Since it supported postscript Level II, it wasn't bound to a specific operating system or hardware platform, so long as a basic postscript level 2 driver was available. A new color laser printer with postscript 3 seems like a logical replacement, and numerous inexpensive printers are available. I'd rather get a smaller, personal-size printer than a heavy workgroup printer. Most of all, I would like it to still be usable and running well with Windows 9, OS X 11, and whatever else we will be using in 2020. Can anyone recommend a brand or series of printers that is built to last and isn't going to be completely dependent on OS specific proprietary drivers?"

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Re:No, we can't recommend anything by Arthur+Grumbine · 2009-10-01 05:00 · Score: 0, Troll

I think he, like most of us, denies the existence of ME and Vista.
Speak for yourself, unlike the current Iranian president I will not deny the reality of something that has destroyed the (digital) lives of millions of innocent people.

Score: -1 billion: Making-an-analogy-between-The-Holocaust-and-a-piece-of-software
or
Score: +1 billion: Making-an-analogy-between-Microsoft-and-the-Nazis
or
Score: +/- 0: Trying-to-predict-the-mods
...could go any way...

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Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.
It won't be OSX 11, it will be OSXI by shinehead · 2009-10-01 14:58 · Score: 0, Troll

I'm so tired of this shit. Mac's have a pretty UI but are proprietary as hell. It amazes me that a forum dedicated to open source/linux has so many fanbois. It's completely schizo. I'm ready for Steve to take the dirt nap and see the company spiral down the tubes or dedicate itself completely to consumer products, i.e. ipods and iwhatever.