-> > In the early days of Laser Printers they were a
-> > little picky aobut the paper. But most anything
-> > works now days.
 
->  Hmm. could be a problem then. What I'm
 
> It was mostly the earlier then Laser II HP printers.
 
 Good news then. I don't think they go back that far.
 
> I have donated several HP 4P printers
> and they work fine with almost any copier paper.
 
 Even better news. :)
 
> I don't speak to any of the other Laser Printers
> as the onel ones I have had much to do with was a
> couple of Epson Laser 1500 models. They were a
> quality machine but the Toner cartridges cost
> about $190.00 I understand some of the Lexmark
> Lasers have somewhat expensive toner cartridges.
 
 $190 =is= a bundle, one I wouldn't want to contemplate.
 
> But even with the $70 cost of the cartridge for
> my HP 5P I get 5000 copies plus. That figures out
> to 1.4 Cents per page for the toner.  I don't
> concider that too bad concidering the quality of
> the output.
 
 Couldn't agree with you more there. Nice crisp copy.
 
 As for the price per copy, that's about what I
 figured.  And if I can finesse the refills, that
 ppp might go down a bit.
 
> And for vouums of printing the
> silence of the Laser compaired to the Dot Martix.
 
 And speed.
 
 Since the noise never bothered me, I didn't
 even think to ask. But they've been living with it
 all this time. I remember the elaborate
 sound-proofing covers that were in vogue way back
 to muffle the dot-matrix machines's noise -- but
 never even considered buying one. Looking back, I
 think it was a sell-job, because they sure were
 not as irritating as the typewriters they replaced.
 And nowadays, when I see a dox-matrix machine,
 there's no sound-proofing cover in evidence.
 
 Thanks for your input. Well, I suppose I better
 bite the bullet and start in on them, or at least
 on setting one of them up. And see where we go
 from there.
 

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