Tracy - I'm sure that 2566 printers are dirt cheap. We bought this one
well-used, about 8 years ago - and original owner was Boeing Computer
Services who really used it. This printer is probably the equal of the
legendary IBM 1403 from the 60s.

The only thing that has made us search for a replacement is that
occasionally it "burps" - prints an intelligible line.

And our maintenance people have tried to fix it - but it is one of those
intermittent errors.

Could be in the printer bank, could even be in the HPIB card.

I do believe for high volume printing a printer with a towel ribbon is hard
to beat - but according to our maintenance guy they aren't making those any
more - so the surviving ones will become harder to service.

I wish someone made an **inexpensive** laser printer that printed continuous
forms. We  need continuous forms because we run  these cards 2 up though the
printer - then cut them with an equally ancient buster.

This 2608 has been a disappointment for us - if the people we bought it from
don't want it back  I may just offer to give the thing free to anyone who'll
pick it up. It is fine for in house printing but when your final product -
that you sell - is the quality of the print - it isn't up to the job that
our old 2566 is...
Bill

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> I'm really curious about this part:
> > Our 3rd party maintenance vendor was making noises that parts were
getting
> > hard to find, it was expensive to support, yadda yadda.
>
> granted maintenance is labor intensive thus expensive, but these printers
> are hard to break!  what's the going rate for a functional used 2566?  I'd
> not be surprised to find the shipping is more than the printer.
>
> Tracy

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