On Jan 6, 8:05*am, "William Sommerwerck"
wrote:
"Tim Phipps" wrote in
message

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In the UK at least you can pick up these printers on eBay fairly
cheap so possibly a good source of parts. As you are probably
aware, the 4 is the same as the 4M except for the PostScript
module.

I found several companies selling "refurbished" 4Ms for $200 or
less --
shipping included. One wonders just how "refurbished" they are, or
how long
they'll last.

I bought the 4M precisely because it supported PostScript, which
was
critical for me. I would never own a printer that didn't support
PostScript.
(It's nice to know that what comes out of a PostScript photosetter
thousands
of miles away will exactly match what you printed out in your home
office.)

It's funny how the 4M was touted as a Macintosh printer, when it
works
perfectly well with Windows. (At the time the 4M came out, the
Macintosh OS
natively supported PostScript.)

We have a LJ 4M (hand me down from billing) in engineering for the
occasional print job that had some paper feed problems. The repair
involved replacing all the rubber feed rollers. We also have a LJ 4MV
for printing 11x17 schematics and patch bay labels which was picked up
on eBay 3 years back 'refurbished' for $250 and it's going strong.

If you still use parallel port for the printer, you likely won't find
many (if any) of those.

GG