Duplex printer advice

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

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From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Gary Kline
Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 12:23 PM
To: FreeBSD Questions
Cc: Kurt Buff; Derek Ragona
Subject: Re: Duplex printer advice


>I second this suggestion since my Brother HL-5250DN just-worked once it
>was plugged into my hub.  It was $179 at Costco a few months back, has 
>all the features that David mentions, and builtin Postscript|clone.
>It just prints--nothing fancy--but then hey... .

Just one warning about these.

The toner empty light blinks use the same pattern as the
fuser fail.  And, unlike the HP units, you usually can't
"shake down" the cartridge to get an extra hundred or
so pages out of it.  Don't jump to conclusions that the
fuser is bad when it's out of toner.

Ted