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May 21, 2010
A Workhorse Printer
2 of 2 found this helpful I have never had a paper jam with this Black and White laser printer after many tens of thousands of printed pages. You can buy the toner cartridges for about $20 ($10 if you want to refill it yourself) and you can buy the whole printer from anywhere between $50 and $100. This is a screaming fast printer and will print a 200 page document in roughly several minutes. The only negatives are that it is Black and White, weighs about 30 pounds and measures roughly 15" by 15" by 10".
Feb 11, 2011
Best Scanner for the Money Today
Originally, I replaced my older 5300C Scanner (circa 2001) with a brand new, state of the art HP Scanjet G3110 in 2011. To my dismay, I found that the older 5300C Scanner was better and more versatile than the newer model G3110 offered by HP. After discovering how good the older HP scanner was relative to the newer scanners HP sells, I immediately went out and purchased a bunch of these 5300C scanners which costs about one tenth the price of a new scanner and do more and does much more than the newer state of the art scanners.
The hardware difference between these two scanners was insignificant although the newer G3110 is a bit faster on scanning a document than the 5300C. The real problem was due to the newer software which HP uses to support its newer scanners. This newer software is both good news and bad news. The good news is that I can go direct to making a pdf file from a scan. The bad news is that the ability to control the scan is greatly dimished and the time to actually get a scan has increased dramatically with the newer software. People who never used a 5300C scanner with its attendent software will not even know what they are missing, but I have been spoiled by the ease of use of the 5300C scanner that I cannot in good faith say that the newer scanners are better than the older scanners. The newer scanner software does not give the user/operator very much control over how the scanning is to take place and how images are to be extracted from the scans. This was primarily due to HP's new software taking much of the scanning options away from the operator. Say you want to scan a picture with the newer scanner. The newer software loads itself and runs and then scans the picture. After is has scanned the picture, it shuts itself down. This adds a great amount of time to actually scanning more than one document or picture. With the 5300C scanner, nothing shuts itself down after the scan and you can continue to refine your scan and do as many scans as you want without having re-start any software programs.
Maybe HP will fix the software issues with their new generation of scanners, but in the meantime, the old scanners and their software work much better for the numerous scans I do for publishing reports and manuals.
Nov 06, 2018
The Best Triple Output Supply Money Can Buy
This is an HP6236B power supply. It is perfect as a bench supply where +5 volts and a + and - 12 volt supply is needed. It has analogue meters to give you instant knowledge of what the voltage outputs are and what the currents at each of those outputs are. I use these all the time in prototyping designs. These supplies never fail electronically and were manufactured by HP with typical HP quality.