Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Homebrew PCBs

Bit of a stale thread but I'll throw in my 2c... I've had some
experience with a number of Lexmark laser printers (NOT inkjets) that
were more than satisfactory. I uninstalled a few at some sites
(office depots) that had as many as 550k pages of ∗cardstock∗ through
them. These were Optra R series printers, and the S and T series are
every bit as good..

The nice thing is, you can pick up lightly used printers for change -
I paid $65 for a T520 with 63k pages on it. I bought two new 20k page
toner carts (drum incl) for $15 each, SHIPPED.

The print quality remains very high to (nearly) the last page of the
cartridge, which is unusual for many laser printers. Unfortunately I
haven't done any transfers with it, I need to get more "release" and
give it a try I guess.