FW: A Postscript Laser Printer for under $200: HP LaserJet 1200SE

[Travis Roy]

I found this of interest and thought you might too..

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Ristuccia [mailto:brian at ristuccia.com]
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 10:28 PM
To: list-geek at osiris.978.org
Subject: A Postscript Laser Printer for under $200: HP LaserJet 1200SE


Christina spotted a HP LaserJet 1200SE at OfficeMax for $199.99. Bad news,
it was sold out. But good news is that Staples has plenty in stock and will
match the OfficeMax price if you bring a copy of OfficeMax's advertisement
which appeared in the Sunday Lowell Sun and the Sunday Boston Globe. Regular
price is $399.

The printer is 15ppm at 1600x1600dpi with PostScript and 16MB of RAM. (The
non-SE model has only 8mb of RAM. On both models there is a quasi-standard
looking RAM expansion slot which can accomidate another 64MB of memory).
Connectivity is via your choice of a bi-directional parallel port with
standard centronics connector and a USB "B" connector. Printer works
flawlessly with CUPS over the parallel port.

Reports indicate it works fine over USB too. See
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-LaserJet_1200 for
more information.

The printer includes one C7115A toner/drum cartridge, which yields around
2500 pages. I found new cartridges for $60. Refill toner is $13. I found
ferrous toner (for MICR printing on checks and so on) for $35.

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Brian Ristuccia
brian at ristuccia.com
bristucc at cs.uml.edu