Duplex printer advice

[Kurt Buff]

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm at toybox.placo.com> wrote:
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> -----Original Message-----
> 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
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>>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... .
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> Just one warning about these.
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> 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


Good to know. Thanks.

Kurt