-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 00:09, Steve Lamb wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: >> I recall they are huge, requiring a lot of floor space and required a >> noise cover otherwise you'd hear ear-splitting, griding noise. X-( > > Yup, yup and yup. Of course having to work on some model or another of > green-bar printer for the past year-and-a-half lemme tell you, nothing better. > You forgot to mention that once the top is down the modern models are > extremely quiet and extremely fast. I'd like to see a laser printer crank out > 500, triple-strike pages without jamming every few minutes. Hell, the lasers > at my current job, even the large floor-space consuming office model, jam more > often than the several green-bars we have combined.
Really? Back in the late 80s, the company I worked for had some Xerox 8700(???) printers (each fed by a 9-track tape drive and controlled by a Lear-Siegler ADM-3A terminal) and remember how durable they were. During tax season, they'd go thru dozens of reams of paper per day without jamming. Of course, they were well maintained... > Think of it this way: > > Laser - Windows, looks purdy, craps out all the time. > Greenbar - Linux, klunky and not as pretty but gets the work done right. Linux driving a band printer? The last band printer I saw was connected to a VAXfarm back in 1991. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF2+edS9HxQb37XmcRAsMoAJ9EufPfhuClrhIdQlInRLWY01NIKgCg1lSp Vv3YRsqNbYifnym7rA8I4ss= =BF3i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
