Re: brother mfc4550plus
- From: "Mark Jerde" <MarkJerde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 01:39:08 -0400
Jim -- You may not find this helpful but let me explain my viewpoint. ;-)
I suggest you buy a new scanner and/or scanner printer. IMO the cost is
very low. If it helps your conscience find a charity who needs a printer
and give it to them... ;-)
My viewpoint: I started on my career in software development in 1976 as a
high school senior. In my personal museum I have paper tape and punch cards
as mementos of the era. I spent $214.48 on my first calculator, a HP-25C.
(I have no idea why I recall the cost exactly nearly 30 years later but I do
recall it.) In 1983 I bought my first PC. It was an Eagle 1610 with a 10
MB hard disk. It cost me over $4k in 1983 dollars. The question people
asked me was, "Ten Megabytes? My god, what will you do with all that
space?" I worked for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)
in the early 1990's and when we needed to make CD-ROMs a person had to go to
a factory in (IIRC) Virginia to have the CDs made.
Over 11 years ago I bought a good personal printer, a HP-IIIP, for almost
$1,000.00. I printed thousands of pages on it. It worked fine the whole
time I had it and for the past 3 or 4 years it was connected to my wife's
PC. She had a 1200x600 DPI USB scanner for her scanning needs. But she
often sent print jobs over our home network to "my" Brother MFC-6800 because
the 600DPI printing was so much better. This annoyed me as the Brother
would come to life and start printing, DESTROYING my programming
concentration. So when "her" HP-3P finally ran out of toner I got her the
Brother DCP-7020. She uses it to print and scan and we're both happy. She
gets the 600DPI resolution for scanning and printing, and "my" printer stays
blissfully quiet unless I it to print. ;-)
Surprisingly it didn't cost much more to get a new Brother DCP-7020 than to
get another toner cartridge for the HP-3P.
My experience is that when older equipment doesn't work right, it's usually
cheaper and easier to get modern equipment. I hate that perfectly good, if
obsolete, equipment I've owned is now in landfill, but that's the reality of
the computer industry.
-- Mark
Jim Hood wrote:
Thankx Mark;
Unfortunatly this unit must me a little older, as it has no usb
hookup, but maybe I can find a usp converter cable> I'v pretty much
given up on this one, but would have been nice to have that scanner
option.
Jim -- I was having problems with a Brother printer/scanner
(DCP-7020) on the parallel port. I gave up, deinstalled it, and
reinstalled it using a USB port. No problems in the couple weeks
since doing this.
-- Mark
Jim Hood wrote:
Hey all:
I've had so much luck, solving problems on these discussion
boards today, I thought I would give you all a real challenge.
I have a brother 4550plus, printer, fax, scanner,copier, &pc fax
machine. Its connected to my computer via a paralell port cable. I
can get this machine to do everything exept scan. Brother has no add
in drivers for this, and they say they are imbedded into the
machine, abd xp should have no problem setting this up. I can't
seem to use this function still. the machine is recognized and
running on printer port LPT1. Any help opn this one would be
greatly appreciated, as I have a document I would like to scan and
send to my pc
.
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