I'm looking at purchasing a personal, good value and reliable
laser printer. More important to me than printing speed is a
solid reliable duplexer that comes as standard equipment.

Anyone have any recommendations, or pointers to online reviews of
available hardware?

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In article <1z3cgvr84r.fsf[at]suldrun.rim.net>,
Viktor Haag <vhaag[at]rim.net> wrote:

> I'm looking at purchasing a personal, good value and reliable
> laser printer. More important to me than printing speed is a
> solid reliable duplexer that comes as standard equipment.
>
> Anyone have any recommendations, or pointers to online reviews of
> available hardware?

First, let me say that this may not be the sort of info you requested.

Next, I will mention that I am not a fan of Hewlett-Packard.

Having said that I will give you the prnter stats from my HP 2200DN
LaserJet which I believe is no longer a current product.

Total pages printed: 30819
Duplex page count: 14502 (accounting for 29004 of total!)
Pages jammed in printer: 6

I run it from a G4 through an ethernet connection -- also connected to a
USB port for backup (seldom activated). The net is also accessable
through Airport so that a small amount of this print was from a wireless
iBook.

Being a cheapskate I use mostly Copy Paper from Wal-Mart at $2.50-3.00 a
ream. I have used only HP cartridges ($90-110 each) and generally get
4000-5000 pages per cartridge. So 30k pages cost me roughly $600 in
cartridges and $150 in paper for a per-side print cost of about 2.5
cents. This does NOT include the original cost of the printer, but that
will probably be amortized over the life of the printer, 5-6 years.

That beats hell out of ink jet costs and runs at 19 pages/per minute to
boot.

Since the HP duplexer runs nearly flawlessly I can only note that
apparently HP knows how to build a duplexer.

Maybe this will help some.