RE: Follow-up to printer recommendations

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Yaacov Garber [mailto:yaacovg -at- post -dot- com] revised his 
printer wish list thusly:

>  This means that the printer I am looking for 
> just went from high-end to low-end. The new printer requirements are:
> Ø	B/W
> Ø	1200 dpi
> Ø	min. 20ppm
> Ø	Print on A4, A5, Letter, transparency, etc
> This printer will be the primary in-house printer so 
> reliability and low maintenance is a prerequisite.
> In the past, I have been most satisfied with HP, but I am 
> open to other suggestion.
> 
> Any recommendations would be appreciated

My recommendation is that you put the auto-duplexing 
requirement back in.

I'd further recommend that your IT Dept. set it up with 
the duplexing turned on by default, so that users have 
to actively switch it off if they want single-sided 
printouts.

My reason is paper. We all print huge quantities of "stuff".
I don't know about you, but for most of the meetings that 
I go to in a week, I need to bring one or two document 
printouts along, so that I can follow along, make my 
own observations, see what other people are talking about, 
etc. I also print off hard copies of most of my source 
documents, and of every document (including many revs of 
my own) that I edit/review/proof/kibbitz, because I work 
better with hard copy and a red pen -- so do most of my 
co-workers.

That's a s***load of paper, even in our small division 
of 60-some people. As a conservation measure, and as a 
way to cut some consumables costs, it makes sense to 
reduce that to half-a-s***load. We cut our paper consumption 
by more than a third by the simple expedient of making 
"Duplex" the default. Only a few were conscientiously using 
it when it needed to be deliberately selected. Now, most 
people use it happily and don't bother to UNselect it.

Our Canon ImageRunner 400E has been a reliable workhorse
for both printing and photocopying. We also have a couple 
of the smaller HP 8150s, which have been reliable, but the 
400E is quicker and centrally located, and so gets the most use.
The Canon Color Laser Copier 1150 is ... well, nice to have, 
but a bit finnicky.  I'll probably lose it when we lose our 
Graphic Design person.

All these models are a few years old, so:

a) you probably can't get exactly those models anymore, but 

b) they've been very satisfactory in terms of reliability 
   and consistency.

We do find that we need multiple printers, because there's 
always some manager or executive needing to print some 
presentation or whatever for a meeting, and some sales rep 
needing to print order-related stuff, while some dummy like 
me is tying up a printer with a 400-page job.

/kevin

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