LN03 headed for heap

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_netwiz.net>
Date: Tue Mar 9 19:50:52 1999

><Nice enough laser printers for their day, but they tend to overheat, if
><memory serves. If you get one, make SURE the fan works. Check. I seem
><to recall we had problems with those on a Vax site I worked on once.
>
>Only if the fans are missing or dead. I was part of that design team and
>overheating was never a problem. The most common problem was a printer
>designed for an peak use of 5,000 pages a month being used as a line
>printer. They get a bit tired and cranky if they werent kept clean and
>get over a million pages on them. Inshort they were commonly abused.

Sounds like a heck of a printer, too bad nobody wanted these. They were so
big and heavy though I couldn't even think about bringing them home. Same
for the MemoryWriter 645.
Received on Tue Mar 09 1999 - 19:50:52 GMT