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Re: printer advise needed

On Apr 4, 2005, at 3:03 PM, email@hidden wrote: 
Currently,
teachers are printing to their own serial port Apple laserwriters -
old, but they work great.  Looking for a solution to teacher printing:

I don't know if you can afford this, but we moved to an entirely different kind of printers. We now require all printers (with a few exceptions) to have ethernet, laser printing, PostScript, Rendezvous (a.k.a. ZeroConf and soon to be named OpenTalk), and be fairly well supported on Macs. We've chosen HP as a standard, thanks to their excellent track record and free phone support to schools.

By doing this, we can manage to ensure that the printers will work on new computers for the foreseeable future (and I'm looking at a decade away, barring really radical departation from announced and implied market directions). We used to have AppleTalk as a requirement, too. This ensured that anything back to a Mac Plus running System 7 would work, too. But since we're killing off pre-OS8.6 systems and moving to server controlled printers (i.e. MacOS X Server printer queue management) it won't be needed any longer. The server will announce the printer over AppleTalk while talking to the printer via IP.

If this sounds good to you, my $0.02 is that the HP LaserJet 1300n and 2300tn/2300dtn printers have been fabulous for us. The 1320n and 2420n should be good, too. But since the 1300n and 2300tn are being phased out of HP's product line, you should be able to get them pretty cheap. Plus, the 1300n and 2300tn/2300dtn have AppleTalk printing. So if you want to keep things running without using a server to manage your printers, you could use those. Last I looked, the 1300n was running about $500 each and had a good life-span on a single toner cartridge.

	Hope that helps.

							Jaime

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