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FOLLOWING UP ON YESTERDAY?S PRINTER POST, Tony Daniel (author of Metaplanetary and Superluminal, amo?

By Glenn Reynolds

FOLLOWING UP ON YESTERDAY’S PRINTER POST, Tony Daniel (author of Metaplanetary and Superluminal, among other things) writes:

I bought the exact same Brother laser printer as you a few months ago for much the same reasons. I’ve been printing out multiple drafts of my chapters on it and it’s been great.

Here’s a trick. There’s a little optical sensor on the toner cartridge lower left side that tells the printer the toner is low. I covered that over with a little piece of tape, and got nearly 700 extra pages out of the initial cartridge the printer came with. I read about this in a couple of reviews of the printer at Amazon and elsewhere, and it worked like a charm.

Plus, you get to feel totally cyberpunk for a couple of seconds!

That’s usually about as long as it lasts for me.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on March 19, 2010 (boomark / email).