Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> On 06/03/2012 04:40 PM, Aydan wrote:
> > Invisible<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
> >> It's like printers with network cards. A network card costs, what,
> >> £0.0016? And yet, a printer without one is £30 or something, but one
> >> with it is £150. Presumably because they figure that your average home
> >> user doesn't give a fig whether there's a network card, they just want
> >> the cheapest one in the shop, but your average business user cannot
> >> afford to do without one, and won't think twice about splashing a few
> >> hundred pounds for something they actually need...
> >
> > You do know that a network card for a printer is actually a print server, right?
>
> You do know that a laser printer already has an entire computing
> environment inside it running an embedded PostScript engine, right?

You were talking about a 30GBP printer.
You don't get a laser printer for 30 pounds.
Even if you do it's unlikely that the printer supports PostScript.
The cheapest postscript capable printer I could find on short notice is a
Lexmark E260 for 169 Euros.

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