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What's the oldest printer you still use these days?
On 12/3/20 9:09 PM, Roger Blake wrote:
And now I see I'm responding to something from like a year and a half ago. D'oh! Don't feel bad, Roger. I just came across this newsgroup myself. I use three printers, all HP. There's a Deskjet 5650, an Officejet 6100, and a color Laserjet 1215. The Laserjet is most certainly the newest, because it is USB 2.0. It was a gift a couple of years ago, because it no longer met the needs of a nephew's workplace. Because it has both USB and parallel ports I believe the Deskjet is the oldest, but I'm not sure. Both of the inkjets use the same print engine, and the HP 56, 57, and/or 58 cartridges. I purchased both of them used, on eBay. All three work beautifully with Mageia Linux, as well as with a Windows XP guest in VirtualBox. TJ |
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What's the oldest printer you still use these days?
On Fri, 04 Dec 2020 02:09:41 +0000, Roger Blake wrote:
And now I see I'm responding to something from like a year and a half ago. D'oh! For the record, I have a 1993 LaserJet 4+ with Postscript upgrade. |
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What's the oldest printer you still use these days?
On 2020-12-14, TJ wrote:
Don't feel bad, Roger. I just came across this newsgroup myself. I've seen people respond to posts from decades ago, so I don't feel too bad about it. I use three printers, all HP. There's a Deskjet 5650, an Officejet 6100, and a color Laserjet 1215. The Laserjet is most certainly the newest, because it is USB 2.0. It was a gift a couple of years ago, because it no longer met the needs of a nephew's workplace. USB didn't even exist when my old Panasonic dot-matrix printer was made! These days I use it with a USB-to-Centronics converter cable. I did manage a kind of fix for the deteriorated platen rubber. I cut out the damaged section and glued in a plastic strip cut from a flexible CD cover. It has just the right amount of stiffness with a little bit of give for the print head to work. I'd still like to find a suitable strip of hard rubber somewhere to replace the entire platen insert since I'm sure it will deteriorate further. I also have an Epson MX-80 with an RS232 serial interface, bought well before the Panasonic. That was purchased to use with an "Interact" 8080-based home computer system, a failed microcomputer from the first wave of home computers circa 1980. Although I still have them, the Interact and the MX-80 have not been switched on in many years and it's doubtful they would still work. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Roger Blake (Posts from Google Groups killfiled due to excess spam.) The US Census, what info must you give? -- http://censusfacts.info Don't talk to cops! -- http://www.DontTalkToCops.com Badges don't grant extra rights -- http://www.CopBlock.org The facts about Climate Change -- http://www.RealClimateScience.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
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