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Tray 1 sometimes takes the whole stack

An HP LaserJet 4 made in 1993, a smaller office printer from the same family. Not the one in the story.
An HP LaserJet 4 made in 1993, a smaller office printer from the same family. Not the one in the story. Photo: DuffDudeX1 at English Wikipedia, Public domain. The real one is in the original post.

Just under half a million pages since 1996, on a busy network at an academic office. It weighs more than 120 pounds. The Macs there only talk to it through the open-source Gutenprint drivers, even though the system claims to recognize it on its own. Legal paper lives in Tray 1, which sometimes pulls the whole stack through at once. Paper pickup is where these always wore first, and anyone who serviced them in the 2000s replaced plenty of input units. Tray 2 is the sure bet. It's slow next to anything modern, and it does the job.

It sold new for $9,549.

Retold from a post on r/BuyItForLife. Read the original

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