[rescue] Calling HP Laserjet experts

[Dave McGuire]

On July 2, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> >   If you want a kickass network printer, grab an Apple Laserwriter
> > 16/600PS.
> 
> That's exactly what I was going to say too!
> 
> I really love my ALW 16/600PS.  It has 32MB of RAM, and I bought the
> latest upgrade ROMs and I now use it very reliably with netatalk and the
> PAP daemon interface to lpd.

  Holy Cow...we actually agree on something!  Upgrade ROMs?  Tell me
more about this?

> One of the things I really love about it is that it only uses 27W of
> electricity when it's in standby mode!

  Yes.  Very nice.

> Even better was the price.  I rescued mine from the used outlet store of
> a big local leasing agency for $64[cad], and when I got it home and
> powered it up I discovered it had only ever printed just over 150 pages
> ever in its whole lifetime!  :-)  They didn't seem to know it was nearly
> new and that it was compatible with ordinary PC equipment.  I also
> bought it on a Saturday when the manager wasn't there and so they sold
> it for the book value according to their computer database!  ;-)

  VERY nice deal!  I sold about four of them last spring for
$200-300/ea.  They're still holding their value quite well.

       -Dave

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