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HP 4 Plus
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100% of reviewers $220.00 10.0



Description: A huge tank of the a printer. These things were the staple office printer for the better part of the 90's. Works best with the HP printer driver series from sourceforge:

http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/

They take an old HP jetdirect card to be network printers, 10-baseT, typically they take postscript and DVI in that flavor. They print about 8ppm, and can do that... forever, novel after novel. Heck, beat the thing with a hammer the entire time its running. I got mine off of Ebay for $50, and they're a lot of them around as they just simply refuse to die. Cartridges last an eon and are typically $20-40
Keywords: black+white laserjet HP printer
Connection Type: Parrallel or RJ-45


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Old 11-16-2003, 05:31 AM   #1
ikletti
 
Registered: Aug 2003
Distribution: Debian woody + KDE 3.1
Posts: 8
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 0

Kernel (uname -r): yes ;-)
Distribution: various



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I fully agree with the introductory description.

The HP Laserjet 4 Plus/4M Plus are literally rock solid printers.
I used to play around with various distributions over the time and Iīve used
my Laserjet 4 Plus with SuSE 5.3, Redhat 7.something, Mandrake 8.2/9.0,
Debian 2.2 and 3.0.
With lpd, the printer was one of the first things I always got to work.
Configuration with CUPS is a snap, but I donīt know about the Gimpprint drivers,
as I only use the printer for text output.

Another huge plus is that the printer has four sockets for PS/2 EDO RAM,
so if you have some of these lying around, you can upgrade the printers
memory up to 32 MB.

Something that I came across once is the error message no. 52.
The handbook says something like "An internal error has occured.
Please switch off for a few minutes and retry. If the problem still
exists, please contact HP support".
It took me a while to find the error, but I resolved it myself:
The filament of the halogen lamp used for heating inside the fixation
unit was broken. I got a replacement part for around 20 USD and put
it in myself, that saved me some 300 bucks repair service bills...

If you need a cheap, reliable laser printer, get one of these if you can.
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Old 01-20-2004, 06:26 PM   #2
ricstirato
 
Registered: Jan 2004
Distribution: Debian 4.0; Kubuntu 8.04 and 8.10
Posts: 138
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $220.00 | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r): 2.4.24
Distribution: Debian


This printer (I have the LaserJet 4M plus) works great as a postscript printer. I'm using it as a network printer with the JetDirect Card which was included when I bought it refurbished.

Under CUPS, be sure to get the Adobe PPD for it.
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