piracy and corporate theft

[Harlock]

When I had a year long contract for a major medical supply company my boss, the Project Manager, knew I was doing a bit of work at home so he bought 3 toner cartridges for my homer/personal laser printer and sent me home with paper. The project ended a few years ago and of course I still have two toner cartridges in the box... These things last forever. I imagine the printer will physically break before I run out of toner. Still, I sure can make tons of B&W copies for only the price of paper. The printer was a gift years and years ago. I've worked at some places that knew some personal copying went on and didn't care, so long as it wasn't on company time and I have worked at some places that would have considered it theft. It's all a matter of policy.

By the way,laser printers have it all over ink jet in ink costs. I know they cost more up front, and the toner cartridges themselves cost a nice sum, but one .pdf can suck an ink jet dry, while the cartridge I am on now has printed literally dozens of .pdf's worth of material including graphics... I suggest paying the extra money up front for the laser, it'll save you so much if you are print happy like me. Heck, I even have a binder with all the erratta and every web enhancement for near every d20 book I own printed in it. Yip, all from that same cartridge...

 

[Henry]

By the way,laser printers have it all over ink jet in ink costs... I suggest paying the extra money up front for the laser, it'll save you so much if you are print happy like me.

Hear, hear!

Henry
proud H.P. laser printer owner

 

[Mercule]

By the way,laser printers have it all over ink jet in ink costs. I know they cost more up front, and the toner cartridges themselves cost a nice sum, but one .pdf can suck an ink jet dry, while the cartridge I am on now has printed literally dozens of .pdf's worth of material including graphics... I suggest paying the extra money up front for the laser, it'll save you so much if you are print happy like me. Heck, I even have a binder with all the erratta and every web enhancement for near every d20 book I own printed in it. Yip, all from that same cartridge...

Are you talking color or B&W lasers?

I've always been told that color lasers are horribly failure prone. Never heard any bad about B&W, but I've never heard anything good about color lasers.

 

[Harlock]

Are you talking color or B&W lasers?

I've always been told that color lasers are horribly failure prone. Never heard any bad about B&W, but I've never heard anything good about color lasers.

Yes, B&W. Mine is probably older than some of the people that post here. It's an HP LaserJet IIIp. It's over ten years old now I believe. Reliable (if a bit squeaky these days), cheap and historic!

 

[Henry]

Are you talking color or B&W lasers?

I've always been told that color lasers are horribly failure prone.

"Failure Prone" might be a misnomer - "temperamental" is better. HP color lasers (I use one at work) have horrendous warm-up times, can paper jam occasionally, and the perishables cost hundreds of dollars (figure almost $900.00 for a complete replacement of Fuser, drum, imager, and CYMK toners - about $2500 for about 200,000 copies.) Plus, it's about a big as a portable refridgerator.

That ain't a home printer.

But it makes some of the most beautiful pictures you'll ever see. We use it for color presentations, and photo printing for customers and vendors. Plus, outside of the perishables, we haven't had a single repair or replacement.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Hey! I resemble those remark!

There is a fine line between piracy and being a priateering.

I admit I take advanage of my company's printers. I use the BIG Xerox B&W printers (135 pages a minute) but the cost is nothing compaired to the lost time of productivity from meetings.

 

[S'mon]

My OKI B&W laser printer developed an EPROM chip error after 1 year, and refused to print more than 1 page at a time. By contrast my HP 720c inkjet has plugged along reliably for 4 years now.

 

[Numion]

is it just me or are other folks entertained that so many people speak so strongly on piracy and still blatantly admit that they use the office printers for their d+d printing?

is there really a big line here?

No there isn't. Just to be sure, I do both

 

[Seule]

Yes, B&W. Mine is probably older than some of the people that post here. It's an HP LaserJet IIIp. It's over ten years old now I believe. Reliable (if a bit squeaky these days), cheap and historic!

The only problem with the old HP laserjet printers is that there are no XP drivers for anything Laserjet III or older. I have a LJ4 at home, and am very happy with it. Old laser printers (particularly HPs from what I've seen) will work forever, at a tiny cost per page. Inkjet printers can be very cheap, but fail easily, and run out of ink quickly. Laser all the way, get one second hand if you can.
I also have a newish inkjet, which is only used for colour jobs. It's slow and expensive in ink, and doesn't have the precision of the LJ, but occasionally I find it necessary.

--Seule

 

[Azlan]

Originally posted by EricNoah
Not only that, some people cruise this website from work! The nerve!!

Ha-ha! So true. But it's better than playing Solitaire or MineSweeper, eh? (Myself, I detest all those games that come with Windows.)

Yet quite a few members here have enough work ethics to only visit this website during their lunch break. That's why (or so I suppose) this board is so sluggish to connect to, from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM, CST. (That is, if you can connect to it at all, during those hours.)