[rescue] Calling HP Laserjet experts

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Tue Jul 2 14:46:36 CDT 2002


On July 2, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> >   Holy Cow...we actually agree on something!  Upgrade ROMs?  Tell me
> > more about this?
> 
> On the horizontal fine print of the start-up page you'll see the I/O
> version number.  I think mine was 2.0, and I've now got the 3.0 ROMs.
...

  Excellent...Thanks! :-)

> Yup.  Around here the even beat-up used ones are still selling for
> upwards of $500[cad] in the "Apple"-brand stores....

  Whoa... $$$!

> I had a friend working at Apple at the time those printers came out and
> his group was too small to be allocated one at the time -- they were
> apparently meant for medium-sized work-groups!  ;-)

  Yes, I can definitely see that.  Fast, networkable, big paper tray,
built like a tank...sounds like a good workgroup printer.

> Meanwhile I'd really love to get a Xerox Phaser 6200.  Or even an 8200.

  Ahh yes.  My color output is handled by a Phaser 550 (which is *not*
for photo stuff), a Kodak XLT-7720 dye sub printer (which definitely
*is* for photo stuff!) and an HP 7550A plotter.

> Something like that would launch me right into digital photography!  ;-)

  Indeed.  And into debt! ;)

     -Dave

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