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The Samsung ML-1210 has tits? Wow! That should qualify it as a multi-function
printer... Ben Myers
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 04:29:03 -0500, Sparky <nemo@moon.sun.edu> wrote:
>Ted Zieglar wrote:
>
>> Thanks for your pov, Christopher.
>>
>> I'd like to pick up on what you wrote about the build quality of todays
>> ~$150 monochrome lasers. My 6L ($400 in 1997) is made almost entirely of
>> plastic parts held together by screws, yet it's managed to last for more
>> than 7 years. What is it about the current crop of printers that causes you
>> to feel that the build quality isn't that great? Perhaps I should spend a
>> little more on my next printer if I want it to last another 7 years?
>
>I bought an HP LJ5L in '97 to replace my 10 year old LJ Series II
>workhorse. Within 2 years it had developed serious paper feed problems
>such that I was hand feeding sheets for printing (it would feed as many
>as a dozen sheets on its own). I didn't find out about HP's repair kit
>until after I'd bought a Samsung ML-1210 in 2002. I replaced the Samsung
>last year with a Brother 8220 Multi-Function unit, which is easily the
>best laser printer I've owned so far (don't know yet if it'll outlast
>the Series II, however, and I doubt it). The Samsung hadn't failed yet,
>but it was making nasty screeching sounds when the print engine fired up
>and I needed a new all-in-one because my old one (an inkjet model) had
>gone tits up.
The Samsung ML-1210 has tits? Wow! That should qualify it as a multi-function
printer... Ben Myers
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 04:29:03 -0500, Sparky <nemo@moon.sun.edu> wrote:
>Ted Zieglar wrote:
>
>> Thanks for your pov, Christopher.
>>
>> I'd like to pick up on what you wrote about the build quality of todays
>> ~$150 monochrome lasers. My 6L ($400 in 1997) is made almost entirely of
>> plastic parts held together by screws, yet it's managed to last for more
>> than 7 years. What is it about the current crop of printers that causes you
>> to feel that the build quality isn't that great? Perhaps I should spend a
>> little more on my next printer if I want it to last another 7 years?
>
>I bought an HP LJ5L in '97 to replace my 10 year old LJ Series II
>workhorse. Within 2 years it had developed serious paper feed problems
>such that I was hand feeding sheets for printing (it would feed as many
>as a dozen sheets on its own). I didn't find out about HP's repair kit
>until after I'd bought a Samsung ML-1210 in 2002. I replaced the Samsung
>last year with a Brother 8220 Multi-Function unit, which is easily the
>best laser printer I've owned so far (don't know yet if it'll outlast
>the Series II, however, and I doubt it). The Samsung hadn't failed yet,
>but it was making nasty screeching sounds when the print engine fired up
>and I needed a new all-in-one because my old one (an inkjet model) had
>gone tits up.
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