You could try a Canon BJC5500C inkjet printer instead. I bought one in
August after our main reception printer went on the blink. It is an A2 (!)
colour printer, but it has an integral tractor feed. It has a big buffer, is
fairly quiet, and lightening fast. Most importantly for scripts, you can
customise the position where it starts printing on a page, and after no data
is sent down the parallel port for a few seconds it winds the paper forwards
so that the scripts can be teared off (winding it back again if further data
is received). The fanfold paper is easily wound back by pressing a button to
load single cut sheets, which can be up to A2 in size. You would need to buy
an extra bin if you wanted to autoload multiple cut sheets, and a serial
port is an add-on rather than standard. a downside is the cost (just under
500UKP, including VAT), but it is no dearer than many laser printers, and
you could use it for the odd A3 or A2 practice poster.
I have been so impressed with it, and so fed up with the noise and having to
wait for our Brother dot matrix printers to print scrips in or surgeries,
that I have just ordered another one tonight (online for 480.58UKP at
www.simply.co.uk ).
A WORD OF WARNING to any practice contemplating buying one - you will have
to set up printer settings in your medical software in order for this to
work. I can advise (by private e-mail) the settings and how to do this for
Vamp Medical practices. It is certainly not supported yet by RHI, although I
have suggested to the company that they should start selling them.
Laurie Miles
GP, St Helens
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>From: Paul Bromley <[log in to unmask]>
>I seem to remember a discussion here in the past about using laser printers
>for FP10s. Is there anything to stop us using a laser for this purpose
>(apart from ours system supplier software)? I have heard comments that it
is
>easier to fraudulently alter a script produced on a laser - is this the
>case??
>
>Comments please
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