+ Robust
+ Very moderate follow-up costs (toner for 6000, drum for 100,000 standard pages)
+ Upgradeable memory (with 1x 100-pin SDRAM DIMM) with adequate basic equipment
+ Decent pace (high in my opinion)
+ Moderate warm-up time (not "instant on", but nothing compared to several minutes of Druckkopfreinigungsgerödel)
+ Low propensity to jam (one can but which provoke)
+ Not too wide (default rate max. 43 cm) footprint OK (are smaller, are more)
+ Quite appealing design
o Print Server only externally (and the IB-100 has its quirks)
o paper cassette back not completely closed, albeit with cover
o Mechanics (insertion of the inner life, paper holder, paper tray) something hakelig
o at economical 2 status LEDs are plentiful blink codes
o naked plastic surfaces
o tolerable noise level (for a laser probably quite OK)
o "smell" something (how many laser corona wire)
o Power Switch back here is not at every installation perfectly achievable, but safely
- Can print envelopes forget (wrinkling, inaccurate collection)
- No duplexing
The long version:
I'm usually a little printer. My old Canon ink splashes probably has far more ink verrödelt in compulsory printhead cleaning than actually landed on the paper. And finally, I wanted to just quickly print a page - well, tough luck, ink and all just because no replacement. Something had to be done. I am now of the opinion that the technology has to be at my beck and not vice versa - and thus has to work if necessary.
So I went for searching for a laser printer - a blue moon times Shake the toner, which I still get out. He should still reasonably compact be (especially in width rather less than the 43 cm of old), reasonably efficient and possibly upgradeable, usable long, the noise forth reasonably office compatible, ideally networkable and with duplex and perhaps not too ugly. Laser of course I would have preferred, but I found no sufficiently compact device with acceptable follow-up costs to the regular calibration with toner consumption. So courage to leave gaps or to black and white.
Ultimately, it was a FS-920 with moderate side counters and more than half full toner - one of the smaller models worth priced not a bit (the 820 has less RAM and speaks only PCL6, the 720 does a pure GDI printers and 32-bit -Windows limited). The basic unit was a little worse for wear at (toner and drum Gottlob separately), but the plastic cover could be put back in place again eventually. Then I still fell into the depths of a computerized Kramkiste from office relocation only for this series matching external USB Print Server (IB-100) in his hands, which had already been unemployed for several years and could be reconfigured to fit.
The curved design of the house of FA Porsche is quite pleasing, the matt plastic surfaces (ABS) of the printer act admittedly rather rustic. It fits here but good - with a former business PC, Cherry G80-3000 even without Windows keys (but with click stop and contrast key inscription), simple nearfield monitors and a 20-kilo monster of A3 scanner is my "home office" in any case more on the functional side.
One should not be so careless and put things on the printer - so I once provoked a fat paper jam in the fuser unit, for the remedy itself had to get out the drum. That's usually not the way this printer in the test completed at the time 20000 pages without a single. An advantage, it must eventually have when the machine has no duplexer. [Addendum: If he sometimes has problems with the collection, change or roughening feed roller. This aging obviously when not in use.]
For operation with IB-100:
* Box itself is only lukewarm, PSU cooks - because most of the 4 W Network power consumption is probably overdone. But is standard voltage and -Hohlstecker, and 1 A ranges determined as can be better substitute muster. (No wonder that Kyocera later the SB-110 b offered with power via the parallel port.)
* Also KPDL3 is properly accepted, even if the USB port is on the FS-920 PCL6.
* Apparently Vista asks regularly the printer from what this probably interpreted as a print job, wakes up, short boots and hinventiliert the next few minutes in front of him - a bit annoying. When FS-820 to a DLink Print Server and XP and Win7 machines on the network, I have something not observed. But here's not a big issue - when I no longer need the printer, it is switched off and unplugged the power supply of the print server. [Addendum: The printer port "SNMP Status Enabled" tick, then rest is in the box.]
* UPnP, the Oldie not just SNMP.
