Having worked hardware support for UMD (maintained, repaired, replaced printers and recharging toner cartridges, among other things) and having owned (and still do) refurb laser printersl I whole-heartedly endorse buying a refurb printer with certain caveats:
While toner cost does make a difference, for a refurb you can generally find toner on Ebay or the like for cheap. You can also find recharged toner cartridges from most printing companies for cheaper than the original, though you'll have to be a bit more careful in the care and handling since recharged laser toner cartridges always leak more easily.
In particular, I once found a Phaser 760 being tossed out at a corporate site and brought it home to work on. There was little wrong with it, and I found toner cartridges (all four colors) for around $80 apiece on Ebay. They do print a ton of pages, but that also depends on what you're printing.
I would say that the primary deciding factor (for refurb vs. new) is that reliability of original. If the new printer was a POS then I would steer clear of the refurb. I have a Lexmark Optra S that I picked up particularly because I'd worked with an Optra S for a while and found it such a rock solid printer. I even sprang $$ for the duplexer for it (new, couldn't find a refurb/second-hand one at the time).
The track record of the printer will also advise you as to what spare parts to stock on hand. Laser printers are much more repairable and reliable than inkjets, but you do need to have replacement parts available - fuser, roll bars, paper feed rollers, and imaging drums in particular for color lasers. I remember that the paper feed roller (little rubber wheel that pulls the paper out of the tray into the printer - nubby when new and smooth, dusty rubber when worn) was the thing that wore out the most on HPIVsi's and we stocked those by the truckload. The rest of it was pretty rock solid and like most B/W lasers the imaging drum is part of the toner cartridge, so much less hassle.
After that I would think about the size both in terms of the amount of space these heavier duty printers require and the weight (the Phaser 760 was one @#$% heavy printer and I think lugging it around was a good part of what re-injured my back). If your don't have a lot of desk real-estate to spare or a really sturdy printer stand/table then you might want to think twice.
A lot of the pricier but nice features in printers are more affordable when you buy a refurb. Think about networking built in on the printer and any built in spool disks or memory. The down side is that refurbs seldom come with a manual or warranty and some of these things are what will kill the printer in the end. The primary reason I ended up throwing away an old HP of mine was that the spool disk went bad and I couldn't replace it.
How comfortable you are tinkering with the printer definitely is the last thing I would list as a factor in choosing refurb over new. If you have to get the copier repair guy in to fix a paper jam, stick with new, however, if you're comfortable with getting a little toner on your hands and reasonably handy tinkering in the guts of a PC, then there's no reason to shy away from the refurb printer.
If I was a hypothetical dictator or mad scientist I'd rather create a population of people who easily learn to fear me and thus were easily coerced into servitude and on the whole rather tractable.
September 27th is the wider release.. October 4th is the widest distribution release - though like Mononoke or even Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon don't expect it to be at even most of the mega/multi/cineplexes in your area. In DC it's at the Mazza Galerie this weekend - very nice theater, 7$ student - 9$ regular, accessible by Metro.
The UMCP Terrapin Anime Society is planning an outting to there for one of the afternoon showings on Saturday. Check out their homepage at: http://www.inform.umd.edu/StudentOrg/tas/ or the UMBC Anime Society: http://sta.umbc.edu/~anime/
Anyone in the area interested should definitely go and see this!
I still think all the translations I've seen are too difficult.
Ni2 You3 Xin4! seems to fit really well - even the same inflection as AOL's current You've got mail! If you really wanted to be explicit it could be:
Ni2 You3 Dian4 Xin4!
Ni2 = You've
You3 = have/got
Xin4 = mail
(Dian4) = all things to do with electricity, including lighting and electricity.:)
Cool Trivia = Dian4 Nao3 is Electric Brain or computer!!
John,
Aside from the fact that it's supposed to be fun and mindless entertainment (amply pointed out by others..) check your own facts. The reincarnated daughter of the pharoah (Rachel Weisz) was Nefertiri, not Nefertiti. Very different queens.
Of course... it doesn't really matter anyway since they aren't exactly historically accurate - come on, Anubis wasn't evil, they really oughta use Set for the bad guy in Mummy III.;)
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"-If a fire breaks out, and a bunch of panicing morons are pushing you from behind, you can still open it."
Of course, I refuse to let a bunch of morons, panicing or otherwise, into my house. ^_^;;
Having worked hardware support for UMD (maintained, repaired, replaced printers and recharging toner cartridges, among other things) and having owned (and still do) refurb laser printersl I whole-heartedly endorse buying a refurb printer with certain caveats:
While toner cost does make a difference, for a refurb you can generally find toner on Ebay or the like for cheap. You can also find recharged toner cartridges from most printing companies for cheaper than the original, though you'll have to be a bit more careful in the care and handling since recharged laser toner cartridges always leak more easily.
In particular, I once found a Phaser 760 being tossed out at a corporate site and brought it home to work on. There was little wrong with it, and I found toner cartridges (all four colors) for around $80 apiece on Ebay. They do print a ton of pages, but that also depends on what you're printing.
I would say that the primary deciding factor (for refurb vs. new) is that reliability of original. If the new printer was a POS then I would steer clear of the refurb. I have a Lexmark Optra S that I picked up particularly because I'd worked with an Optra S for a while and found it such a rock solid printer. I even sprang $$ for the duplexer for it (new, couldn't find a refurb/second-hand one at the time).
The track record of the printer will also advise you as to what spare parts to stock on hand. Laser printers are much more repairable and reliable than inkjets, but you do need to have replacement parts available - fuser, roll bars, paper feed rollers, and imaging drums in particular for color lasers. I remember that the paper feed roller (little rubber wheel that pulls the paper out of the tray into the printer - nubby when new and smooth, dusty rubber when worn) was the thing that wore out the most on HPIVsi's and we stocked those by the truckload. The rest of it was pretty rock solid and like most B/W lasers the imaging drum is part of the toner cartridge, so much less hassle.
After that I would think about the size both in terms of the amount of space these heavier duty printers require and the weight (the Phaser 760 was one @#$% heavy printer and I think lugging it around was a good part of what re-injured my back). If your don't have a lot of desk real-estate to spare or a really sturdy printer stand/table then you might want to think twice.
A lot of the pricier but nice features in printers are more affordable when you buy a refurb. Think about networking built in on the printer and any built in spool disks or memory. The down side is that refurbs seldom come with a manual or warranty and some of these things are what will kill the printer in the end. The primary reason I ended up throwing away an old HP of mine was that the spool disk went bad and I couldn't replace it.
How comfortable you are tinkering with the printer definitely is the last thing I would list as a factor in choosing refurb over new. If you have to get the copier repair guy in to fix a paper jam, stick with new, however, if you're comfortable with getting a little toner on your hands and reasonably handy tinkering in the guts of a PC, then there's no reason to shy away from the refurb printer.
If I was a hypothetical dictator or mad scientist I'd rather create a population of people who easily learn to fear me and thus were easily coerced into servitude and on the whole rather tractable.
Muha... Muha.. Muhahaha..
September 27th is the wider release.. October 4th is the widest distribution release - though like Mononoke or even Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon don't expect it to be at even most of the mega/multi/cineplexes in your area. In DC it's at the Mazza Galerie this weekend - very nice theater, 7$ student - 9$ regular, accessible by Metro.
The UMCP Terrapin Anime Society is planning an outting to there for one of the afternoon showings on Saturday. Check out their homepage at:
http://www.inform.umd.edu/StudentOrg/tas/
or the UMBC Anime Society:
http://sta.umbc.edu/~anime/
Anyone in the area interested should definitely go and see this!
I still think all the translations I've seen are too difficult. Ni2 You3 Xin4! seems to fit really well - even the same inflection as AOL's current You've got mail! If you really wanted to be explicit it could be: Ni2 You3 Dian4 Xin4! Ni2 = You've You3 = have/got Xin4 = mail (Dian4) = all things to do with electricity, including lighting and electricity. :)
Cool Trivia = Dian4 Nao3 is Electric Brain or computer!!
John, Aside from the fact that it's supposed to be fun and mindless entertainment (amply pointed out by others..) check your own facts. The reincarnated daughter of the pharoah (Rachel Weisz) was Nefertiri, not Nefertiti. Very different queens. Of course... it doesn't really matter anyway since they aren't exactly historically accurate - come on, Anubis wasn't evil, they really oughta use Set for the bad guy in Mummy III. ;)