Tom Walker wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

-> I was talking to a guy at a computer store in the area today,  and 
-> am inclined to go with laser rather than inkjet,  also something a 
-> little older,  like maybe H-P 4, 5, 6 series,  somewhere around 
-> there.  He had some 6c printers there for $89,  but I want to shop 
-> around a bit and see if I can't find a better deal.

 TW>  If you have No need ror Color that is a very smart thing to do.
 TW> their output just cannot be beat. I myslef perfer the 5P and 6P
 TW> Small business models. I have a 5P myself and have bought two Used
 TW> 6P's for donation to my Church Group. The only difference is that
 TW> the 6P has a slightly faster CPU  
 TW> And for me the Best thing is that those particualr printers have
 TW> TWO parallel Input ports. One is a Standard Centronix and the other
 TW> is a Minature Centronix. One can have a cable dangiling out for
 TW> your Laptop or in your in your case you could leave the Laptop Port
 TW> Repulator parallel port plugged into the second port. :-)  :-)     
 TW>      It also has an Infrared port on the front that I use for my
 TW> Laptop. They have a little bigger footprint then the typical inkjet
 TW> but not as big as some of the HP big series 4 and 5 Business
 TW> printers.

I could probably even deal with a bigger footprint,  get one of those
business-oriented machines.  They're built *solid*,  y'know?

What I need to do now is _find_ one!  But there are a couple of computer
places around that I haven't hit lately,  time to stop in there...

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