I personally use brother hl-2040 laser with telstra glossy junk mail as
the transfer paper, I find it is the best out of all the junk papers as
you can freely collect it at a shopping center.
I have recently found a hp laserjet 1200 thrown out with some water
damage, after a good clean up it performs far superior because the toner
is more durable, the brother toner is brittle when on the copper.
A second hand printer is a great way to go as you can find them
literally thrown out and its not a great loss to experiment with.
I gave the hp 1200 baking paper, plastic transparency, glad wrap on
paper (melted disaster), aluminium foil, graphite dusted paper, all in
an attempt to get the toner to transfer easily, and it still prints as
good as my new brother after all the abuse.
Cheers,
Michael.
Harvey White wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:15:01 -0500, you wrote:
>
>
>> On Monday 26 November 2007 00:53, Harvey White wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:46:29 -0000, you wrote:
>>> If you ∗do∗ go with HP, be aware that there is on the 2200 and 2300
>>> series, and some of the other LaserJet series, a density control in
>>> software. It's a separate program, not part of the driver. Normally
>>> the density is set to about 2.5, for boards, I set it to 5 (maximum).
>>>
>>> YMMV, especially with other machines, but these are my opinions.
>>>
>>> Harvey
>>>
>>>
>> I've been looking a bit at LaserJets lately, especially the 1018/1020/1022.
>> One thing I noticed is that the 1018 and 1020 seem to come with
>> an "introductory cartridge" that is only good for 1000 pages.
>>
>
> Translation: GOTCHA!
>
> Happens lots.
>
>
>> The 1022 comes
>> with a 2000 page cartridge. They all seem to use the HP12 cartridge which
>> seems to go for around $68, so you start out $34 in the hole with the
>> 1018/102020. They also are 600x600 dpi, while the 1022 is 1200x1200.
>>
>
> The 96A cart runs for over 100 dollars, I think about 120. 68 dollars
> may sound good here....
>
> The 2200D (got it because it was double sided, needed it, love the
> feature) is 1200 by 1200...
>
>
>> It also appears the HP online store is offering free shipping and an instant
>> rebate on all three. At the time I was checking the WEB. I believe HP was
>> cheaper than Office Depot; of course that changes by the minute 8o).
>>
>
> sure does....
>
> Luck, though
>
> Harvey
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