Fellow tech requesting advice...

[jecook]

Has anyone here ever had to deal with Sharp All in one devices? Specifically, the AM-900, or any of their home office copiers?

I'm normally an HP man, but I'm open to looking at other products.

My work is looking to put laser based all in one deivces at some of our sites that have been chewing up the inkjet based models, and as I've only used one (the laserjet 3100, which is ancient) I have no idea what to tell them.

Thoughts, comments, opiinions? (besides the obligatory "Read the effin User info!" comment. I'm asking for opinions from my fellow co-horts)

Comments

Ya know...

[ace-brickman.livejournal.com]

I've been looking for a forum for field tech/help & support desk (phones)/(IT stuff in general) here on LJ where we could post thoughts such as this (http://www.livejournal.com/community/techsupport/775635.html), this (http://www.livejournal.com/community/techsupport/773984.html), and yours above.

I'm a senior in college and am interning for one of the departmental student labs. I've considered posting some questions like yours, but was afraid I'd ruin the mentality/spirit of this group (which is in and of itself a refresher). I don't want it to be a n00b community, but posts would consist of: (halfway at least)intelligent technical questions, cool or unique fixes to common annoyances, IT news reports, etc...

It'd be kinda like a /. environment, only a lil saner ;).

Any ideas folks?

Re: Ya know...

[jecook]

Usually, fro what I've read of this community since finindg it nearly a year ago was that as long as people know you are a tech, and possibly grovel a bit, or a real stumper of a question, then they'll help you out.

the few comments by n00bs that I have seen were all mocked mercilessly, but a few techs did respond as well and answered their question more or less.

Re: Ya know...

[ace-brickman.livejournal.com]

I've had a great time lurking in here, reading about my future annoyances after this coming semester. This, along with the internship at my university, have really broadened my scope of knowledge. Hella props to all-o-y'all; keep up the good work and endless rants! I hope to post something worthwhile soon.

[gholam.livejournal.com]

Xerox WorkCentre PE16. Sold a bunch of them, no complaints whatsoever from anyone. One is the primary printer in our office as well. Stay away from HP, they've made nothing worth using since LaserJet 5P.

[jecook]

I dunno. the 8100 was a pretty nice beast to deal with. Definately a step up from the 5si it's based on... ::grin::

[gholam.livejournal.com]

LJ5Ps that were made still work. Despite the fact that they've been out of production for what, ten years? On the opposite side, we sold a batch of three LaserJet 1020s last month (the customer specified exact model they wanted), there were four or five exchanges on these already, with two out of three being defective outright.