[muglo] Re: USB Printer

Well said Eric. Nice to hear some inteligent commentary!

> From: "Eric D." <hideme666@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 12:42:34 -0400
> To: <muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [muglo] Re: USB Printer
> 
> 
> on 19/7/02 09:58, Tee Cashmore at tee.cashmore@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
>> Eric,
>> Do you read some of these posts? Paul was after "a low cost second printer",
>> which is certainly not in the $300-400 range. Then there is the fact that the
>> Laser printers you mention are B & W.
>> TTFN,
>> TeeC
> 
> Yes, I do read them, and yes I do know lasers are B&W. Colour is fancy &
> looks cute, but I've never seen a professional document come out of an
> inkjet (people (even professional artists) do not use colour well).
> 
> All I was pointing out that, in case his "primary" printer was an inkjet
> too, that lasers are "low cost" (by historical standards) -- I paid $415 for
> my StyleWriter II & was very happy with it (it served me well and cheaply
> for many years (refills were cheap and worked well with SW II cartridges).
> 
> Inkjets are now becoming so cheap that you can often buy one for less than
> the cost of a cartridge. Cartridges on the other hand are anything *but*
> cheap & cannot be easily refilled, so, you get what you pay for.
> 
> Pay $100 for your printer (300 pages on 1st cartridge), and expect to pay
> $60 for every 300 pages you print. Pay $400 for your printer (2000 prints on
> 1st toner) and expect to pay $80 for every 3000 pages you print.
> 
> 2000 laser pages = $400; 2100 inkjet pages = $100 + 6*$60 = $460.
> 
> 5000 laser pages = $480; 5100 inkjet pages = $100 + 16*$60 = $1060.
> 
> Since we're Mac users we inherently understand such a principle (we pay one
> hell of a premium for our computers but we get a much better "TCO" in terms
> of our user experience).
> 
> Which brings me to grumbling about washers & driers -- N.A. top-loading
> washing machines consume so much energy and waste so much water vs.
> (predominately) European front-loaders yet we buy them like the Enron +
> their crony, Bush/Alberta tar sands lemmings we are.
> 
> Pay a little more for your washer (front loader), reduce the wear and tear
> on your clothes, save $ & environment with less water use, save $ &
> environment by using less electricity (since only the fridge beats the
> washer/dryer for energy consumption).
> 
> Not only is being environmentally destructive stupid and extremely
> egotistical, it also makes no financial sense (of course, if you're Enron or
> Alberta you'll love excessive energy consumption since that puts $$$ in your
> big pockets).
> 
> Eric.
> 
> 
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