Homebrew PCBs

Hi,

 

My solution is not to buy a new laser printer.

I still have a couple of old HP Cannon engine printers mainly because they
have not yet broken down and are cheap to run.

At present I have an old HP Color Laserjet 5 over 15 years old. It is slow
to print compared to modern printers, but the toner comes in a bottle and is
cheap to buy and one bottle does about 5,0000 pages for $10. 

You can buy an old printer for not much money and keep it for special
printing. You will need a computer with a parallel port and using Windows XP
to drive the printer. I do run Windows 7 but found it did not have the
drivers for the old HP printer. But using an old computers as a file server
(for music) running XP allows me to have a print server as well and Windows
7 downloads a driver to install from the XP computer the first time you use
it and then prints normally. If not used the computer,  screen, Windows XP
were headed to the rubbish bin.

Look for old HP printers, Cannon printers in second hand stores as
repackaged cartridges are cheap to buy. Look to the ones that seem to build
like a tank and are heavy to pick up. I have worn out several modern
printers at work, but these old one keep running. They do need to be cleaned
now and then.

Just another way.

 

Cheers

Tim