Can’t confirm, my 12 yo HP LJ still spits out pages as expected, and doesn’t even complain about the aftermarket toner cars I use.
I would say I miss when printers were good, but they never were… Just less awful than they are now.
Edit: totally forgot, the printer was single sided for the first 20 years I had it, and I have no idea why (other than windows windows-ing) it suddenly started printing duplex after I migrated to Linux!
The HPs before that were solid. We had an HP 5P that would not quit. The toner cartridge was pricy, but it did last, so it was more of something to plan for than a constant cost. And you could shake it around a lot and get a few thousand more pages before it got bad, so it gave a fair warning.
Oh, tell me about it. When I was working for a local school, we ended up replacing a TON of LJ400s that were still running like champs and refused die, but it was a pain in the ass to source/config the aftermarket card that let it run on the network while we still supported them.
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Can’t confirm, my 12 yo HP LJ still spits out pages as expected, and doesn’t even complain about the aftermarket toner cars I use.
I would say I miss when printers were good, but they never were… Just less awful than they are now.
Edit: totally forgot, the printer was single sided for the first 20 years I had it, and I have no idea why (other than windows windows-ing) it suddenly started printing duplex after I migrated to Linux!
The HPs before that were solid. We had an HP 5P that would not quit. The toner cartridge was pricy, but it did last, so it was more of something to plan for than a constant cost. And you could shake it around a lot and get a few thousand more pages before it got bad, so it gave a fair warning.
Oh, tell me about it. When I was working for a local school, we ended up replacing a TON of LJ400s that were still running like champs and refused die, but it was a pain in the ass to source/config the aftermarket card that let it run on the network while we still supported them.