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You know aquiring stuff at ebay gets cheaper the more time you have.
I was wondering which printer to look for.

I have a IIID now, and i am perfectly satisfied for the "office use".
It is constructed like a tank, very sturdy good old HP design.
you can take all the plastic parts away and it still works.
This is clearly a unit from the good HP times.

It would be PERFECT for converting in a flatbed printer.
one could get rid of the "turn around the page" stage under the actual
printing stage
and have plenty of space for a carriage.


BAD THING: only 300 DPI.


I would like to start with at least 600.


Now, there are printers for very cheap, but if i look at the modern "all
plastic"
it is really just junk, it is nothing else.
the plastic case carries all the stuff, you can not really modify them
very well.

The IIID has a practically straight through flat path, i am looking for a
similar printer
with more DPI.
If i look at some of the modern printers the paper path coils around i
wonder that the
paper doesn't jam all the time....


It needs to be sufficiently old, to get cheap, and to get cheap toner.

It should not be too heavy (shipping) or close enough to fetch with the
car.


I would appreciate if we could make a sort of list, with types of printers
which seem
easy to work with. any suggestions?

This may seem very early for this (as it is not checked out yet if it will
work at all)
but as said, just for looking at ebay.....

ST