David Nebenzahl wrote:
This inspired by the mini-thread in the thread up yonder about HP
DeskJet printers. Actually something of a reverse gloat, along the lines
of "my old printer still works; does yours?".

Got my HP LaserJet 2100M (600 DPI w/PostScript capability) ca. 2000. Not
only is the printer still working perfectly, but I'm still using the
same cartridge I got with it!

Which is a little puzzling; while the printer hasn't exactly been used
in a production environment, I have put plenty of pages through it:
printed out many entire manuals, etc. I'm just waiting for the cartridge
to empty out, but it still hasn't come close. (I even have a 2nd
cartridge I got with the printer, still in its foil package.)

One thing I really don't like about this, and really most HP printers
that I've used, is that it hates to print on the back of printed sheets.
Usually it eats/shreds about half the sheets one tries to print this
way.

Check that there's still some tread on the rollers, and maybe the
separation pad.

Yeah, I know, you can get HPs with "duplex" options, but to me,
that's utter bull****.

All the duplexers do is flip the paper over so it can refeed. Printing
on the blank side of once-printed paper shouldn't be a problem.

Several brands of big office copier/printers used to provide me with
lots of hundred-page PostScript misprints. That once-printed paper
worked fine in LaserJet 4050 and 4350 printers.

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Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota * USA