Buying a used Laserwriter on ebay

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in General Discussion edited January 2014
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

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  • Reply 1 of 5
    akumulatorakumulator Posts: 1,111member
    I think that today's inkjet printers print better than the laser printers like this one. We have a huge expensive laser printer at work and I don't think it prints as good as my home printer.



    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...............
  • Reply 2 of 5
    Black and white laser printers actually pay for themselves compared to inkjet printers rather quickly. If yo print a lot of papers and non-colour pages, definitely, have a laser and an inkjet. I have a laserwritier 16/600 and a Scitex Iris 5030 for colour photographic printing. The only colour printing I do is fine arts printing, and I always send it to my Iris. All the black and white I do is papers and web pages, and even if I had an epson inkjet, economically it makes more sense to send the job to a laser printer. You can find cheaper lasers than Apple branded though....
  • Reply 3 of 5
    Quote:

    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¢.
  • Reply 4 of 5
    a_greera_greer Posts: 4,594member
    staples has a conico manolta for 99$ its laser and has a higher res, i think it is networkable but the key here is it is NEW
  • Reply 5 of 5
    majormattmajormatt Posts: 1,077member
    We have our LW 4/600, it runs beautifully and we get 4000-5000 sheets per cartridge and this is at high density. I'v had various inkjets which were supposedly 720x1400 and it was nowhere, NOWHERE near the quality of our 600x600 LW 4/600. I picked up a $200 Samsung 600 DPI Laser printer and it still pales to my Laserwriter, I only got it since its gotta be USB.



    So go for it.
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