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#1 2003-10-07 11:56 pm
- MacFanatic39
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Best Laser Printer
Hey all,
I'm looking for a high-quality laser printer that is USB. It has to be USB cause I'm gonna hook it up to my AirPort Base Station so everyone on the network can use it. Thus, it also has to be heavy duty. It also needs to support PortScript. That said, any suggestions? 
Thanks so much in advance,
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#2 2003-10-08 12:58 am
- Dent
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Re: Best Laser Printer
I second that motion. ( I am posting here cause I want to see what people have to recommend, and I get notification in my email.) Sorry to the original poster, but I had to piggy-back. 
Or ethernet, cause I would totally love to hook it up to my router. thanks. 
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#3 2003-10-08 2:32 pm
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I second that motion. ( I am posting here cause I want to see what people have to recommend, and I get notification in my email.) Sorry to the original poster, but I had to piggy-back.
For ethernet, we use an Apple Laserwriter IIg... it kicks ass. If you can ever pick up one of these secondhand, do so. They rock for an old fogie machine.
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#4 2003-10-08 3:07 pm
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It has to be USB cause I'm gonna hook it up to my AirPort Base Station
Then your choices are somewhat limited. The Airport base station only supports certain printers, mostly inkjets. You can view a list of printers by going to http://www.apple.com/airport/printcompatibility.html
So if you really need it to work on your base station then it will have to be one of those listed on that page.
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#5 2003-10-08 4:23 pm
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Re: Best Laser Printer
The HP1300 is the one I use. Fully compatible with Rendezvous (plug into AirPort and go). Get some extra memory though as the 16mb is a bit measly (I upgraded to 80mb for less than
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#6 2003-10-08 7:15 pm
- Dent
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Re: Best Laser Printer
I was hoping for something that was a little easier to come by. I looked all over, and I will be printing grapic design layouts, invoices and the like on it...any other ideas? If I do find the mentioned Apple Laserwriter, I'd still get one...or an apple laserwriter 630... 
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#7 2003-10-08 7:48 pm
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My local bi-box store (Future Shop) is full of 1300s... or try www.macwarehouse.com
I also want a 1300, but I do't think I'll spend more for the network option. I'll just use one of my macs as the print server; it's on all the time anyway!
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#8 2003-10-09 12:08 am
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Re: Best Laser Printer
I went with a HP Laserjet 1300 with a Netgear Mini Print Server. It's a little slow to print sometime and has problems with really large print jobs (50+ slides in PowerPoint printing as handouts), but otherwise works very well.
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