[Pc_Support] Re: Dell 3100cn Color LaserJet with PostScript and LPD for $329.40 shipped! -- OT comment

[Bryan J. Smith]

"Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith at ieee.org> wrote:
> My current best is my 6-year old Lexmark E310 (Postscript
> Level 2), which gets 10,000 pages per $160 extended toner,
> or 1.6 cents/page not including drum.  The drum is rated
> around 20,000 pages, and I've just about crossed it.  Not
> sure how much it costs.

BTW, just an OT comment, this printer was a Godsend when I
was a teacher.  I couldn't get a copier card (seniority type
BS, only worse), so I used to either get the electronic forms
(typically PDF) of the materials (typically for science), or
generate my own (for math via LyX).

My printer was running day'n night when I was a teacher and
the sucker never hiccuped, and maybe jammed no more than 3-4
times.  I know I reeled off a good 10,000 pages just as a
teacher, about 250 pages every other day on average.

I know a lot of teachers were envious that I had my own
notebook and printer, especially the younger teachers who
were  in the same "lack of seniority" boat I was, but didn't
have the financial resources/existing computer hardware that
I did.  I used to help them out all I could, and generated
math worksheets with LyX and graphs with GNUPlot and other
tools.


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