printer recommendation request

[John Esak]

Okay,
I'll give the admittedly stupid answers no one gave you already... :-)

1) What would be wrong with the next model up in the series, the 4350?
Aren't they available... Even after market (unused) if they have been
disco'd. These are an absolutely fantastic (and FAST!!!!) printer. I'm
pretty sure they take 3 trays... I've seen them with 2 500 sheet additional
trays. I'm guessing you could do three.

2) I used to go through the 3 colored sheets thing to imitate and old
pre-printed set of colored forms. Yellow, Green and Blue. It was a huge
pain. Buying the different colored paper, loading one of the trays with
reegular white when that was needed, etc.

One day Jim Asman asked me why I didn't just print the pages text in
color... Not all of it... But the company logo and letterhead at the top.
We used a Business Inkjet at first. The whole letterhead/log at the top was
printed in Yellow, then Green, then Blue, each on succesive pages. Then they
were collated as normal. A few people balked at first, but soon just
accepted that this was just fine enough and let it go. We stopped ordering
colored paper!  

Then, to the point. Instead of using a Business inkjet, which are cheap and
the cartridges are also relaitively cheap, you could now buy one of the new
color laserjets from HP. The 1516n printer I just got is fantastic. The
toner cartridges are much more expensive, but the ease of operation and the
look of the printed pages is SO good!  Well, for my purposes (basically
small private usage) it's worth it.  Sounds like your situation though not
private might be ideal for this printer. Heck, no paper trays, no giant
printer. Just this beautiful, well made small device to do the job. You
could buy 4 of them for the price of something with 3 bins. It is normally
$399, but on sale now at Staples and other places for $250!. 

You just insert a pretty simple macro that has the 3 color logo/letterhead
overlays in your form and your off. They print out in order, no fuss, no
muss. I was thinking you could print the whole overlay in one color also,
and do the data in black. That would stand out quite a bit and may look very
cool.  We just did the logo at the top with File Copy, Customer Copy,
Shipper's Copy in the particular color... And it was more than enough.  

But, it's just a suggestion. I'm not suggesting this idea is to take over
the place of the old colored NCR paper deal. But, it might just for you as
it did for me.

Good luck, whatever you choose.

John

By the way. Tjeuy said the 4 toners that came with my printer were half
filled "starter" cartridges... But they have read completely full since I've
gotten them. I guess I've printed at least 50, maybe even 100 pages since
I've gotten the thing.  Boy am I happy with how good the color looks. It has
a nice sheen to it. Not the garish *GLOSSY* thing that Oki color laserjets
do, just a nice professional looking sheen. Sort of like you would see on an
album cover of old.  If we used this printer with the logo/letterhead in one
spot color like I'm suggsting, it would look great, almost like an embossed
pre-printed form I'm sure.

By the way, this printer does use HP PCL5c. It said it on the box, but
nothing in the manual or anything else made it clear how to get it.
However, just going to the site for the printer had the driver for what they
call their Universal Print Driver I think... It let me set up one driver for
my Windows boxes on the network using PCL6, and another to run it as a PCL5c
box, so filePro does its colors just fine.

Currently, all I use it for in this regard is to print the number on my
checks in big 5 pitch red Letter Gothic. Jeez, they look like they were made
at the factory. (I buy checks without pre-printed numbers, so I can *screw*
up and reprint and start wherever I like, etc.)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com 
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> m] On Behalf Of daN baueR
> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 2:23 PM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: printer recommendation request
> 
> As I look to buy a new HP Laserjet printer I'd like to make 
> sure it'll work
> w/o too much fuss. The server here is running SCO Release = 
> 3.2v5.0.7 and
> filePro V 5.6.  Currently we've got a HPLaserJet 4250 with 
> two paper trays
> that has worked great, and is still working great. I'd like to add an
> additional printer for a new process that will be printing a 
> 3 part form
> single sided.  Page 1 in white, page 2 yellow and page 3 
> pink.  So what I'm
> looking for is a printer that accepts 3 paper trays. Price is 
> of course
> important but not the overriding concern. The duty cycle 
> isn't too demanding
> we're only talking about 300 or so forms a month.  Figure 
> 1,000 pages a
> month.  The make or break item is that it must have 3 paper trays. I
> appreciate any advice you can offer.
> 
> -- 
> daN baueR
> dan at onlinemgt.com
> google voice 347-542-7267
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