Buying a used Laserwriter on ebay
On ebay you can get used laserwriters for about $100. Is this a good deal? What were the "best" laserwriters in the mid 90s? Are there any that are horrible?
This seems like a good deal since you get a quality laser printer that has real Postscript support.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...&category=4608
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This seems like a good deal since you get a quality laser printer that has real Postscript support.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...&category=4608
http://search.ebay.com/search/search...ecordstoskip=0
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Edit: do those on ebay even print in color? Laser printers print great in black... but, I still don't think I'd get one...even for a hundred bucks. Maybe under certain circumstances like photo ready b&w art work created from Illustrator...............
Originally posted by jante99
On ebay you can get used laserwriters for about $100. Is this a good deal? What were the "best" laserwriters in the mid 90s? Are there any that are horrible?
This seems like a good deal since you get a quality laser printer that has real Postscript support.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...&category=4608
http://search.ebay.com/search/search...ecordstoskip=0
Personally, I bought a LaserWriter Pro 630 off eBay a couple of years ago for next to nothing, and it has served me well ever since. I love it because it 1) runs forever on a single toner cartridge, 2) is PostScript so there are no drivers to bother with, and 3) since it has Ethernet built-in, I can network it across all of my Macs and PCs. Plus, it has over 108,000 pages on it so far, with no signs of stopping anytime soon. The only downside is that it's fairly slow.
On a side note, my POS Lexmark color inkjet printer sits unused in my garage due to the fact that it would cost more to replace the ink cartridges than it would to replace the entire PRINTER.
My 2¢.
So go for it.