My IBM 4317 laser printer (Network Printer 17) arrived earlier this week. I have the printer attached to my OS/2 Warp Server for e-business system (via a parallel port), and I also tested an OS/2 Warp 4 client.
This 17 page per minute 600 dpi (plus edge smoothing) duplexing laser printer costs just a little over $186.00 shipped from CompGeeks (http://www.compgeeks.com), if you use the discount coupon MC EXCLUSIVES. It's a tremendous value. (These printers often show up on eBay in like
condition, often with even more accessories.)
The factory refurbished laser printer arrived with several installed accessories: a top offset output tray (up to 500 pages capacity), extra memory (10 MB RAM total), and a Token-Ring network adapter. Even though I ordered the version without the toner cartridge, I got one anyway (which
looked only partially used). The printer had been used for approximately186,000 pages before I received it, according to the built-in counter. There were some minor toner smudges here and there, easily cleaned with a wet towel.
Installation was a breeze, and the OS/2 Warp driver support is excellent (using any of the more recent LaserJet driver sets from the OS/2 Device Driver Pak On-Line). IBM's printer division also supplies its own OS/2 Warp printer driver (not tested). The printer is fully capable of its 17
ppm rated speed, and it manages 8+ sheets per minute in duplex mode - very speedy indeed.
There's lots more to like about this printer. For example, you can set the printer to automatically reprint any pages caught a paper jam. (Any sheet that hasn't completely exited the printer will be reprinted.) Paper jams seem to be few and far between.
I was able to download all the IBM NP17's manuals from IBM's web site. (Naturally, I printed them on the NP17 itself. :-)) Toner cartridges are fairly expensive, but they last a long time, especially with the economy mode setting.
In short, this is an excellent buy in a rugged, refurbished printer. For more information on the IBM NP17, visit this web site:

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• From The Editor
  Robert Basler finds a wealth of web-browsers.
• News
  Robert Basler looks at this month's news.
• Editorial
  Bad Behavior
  Robert Basler is tired of paying the price for the flamewars.
• Reviews
  • WEB/2
    John Bijnens looks at a native web server for OS/2.
  • SoundBlaster Live! Platinum 5.1
    Robert Basler installs a new four-channel sound card.
  • Monsoon MM-2000 Flat Panel Surround System
    Robert Basler tries some spectacular computer speakers.
• Articles
  • ODBC on OS/2 Part 3
    Douglas Clark looks at ODBC databases and drivers.
  • Into Java, Part 18
    Simon Gronlund is back with a gaggle of GUI components.
• Forums
  • Ask Bas and John
    Bas Heijermans and John Bijnens answer your OS/2 questions in this ongoing forum.
  • July Forums
    Questions for the authors? Disagree with us? Take it to the forums.

Scott Handy of IBM notes that he is aware of the OS/2'ers and that some OS/2 customers want to stay on OS/2 as long as possible. By the way, the 10 questions are based on which get moderated up, "voted" most often, so seeing as this question made it to No#6 on the top 10, and based on the size of readership of Slashdot, it would seem there was a lot of interest and awareness about OS/2.

• JULY MEETING
  Our front page has information on the July 25 meeting featuring Sean Reilly, author of Moneydance, the Java personal finance program. We have also added the logo of Warpstock Europe 2001 to show our support for that effort.
• REXX PROGRAMMING SECTION
  For the past four months, our group has been holding monthly sessions on REXX programming, and we post the notes on our web siteThe REXX programming section of the site is now updated with Session 4 from the June meeting. The topic for the month was REXXUTIL functions. Notes and exercises from the previous sessions are also available.
  Also on that page is a copy of DTWTHR.CMD, a REXX utility created by one of our members for downloading weather maps and using them as Desktop backgrounds.

Hinzu kommt, dass fast alle Geräte das Betriebssystem OS/2 verwenden, für das der Hersteller IBM den Support voraussichtlich nur noch bis ins Jahr 2006 garantiert.

The July 2001 issue of the VOICE Newsletter is now online at http://www.os2voice.org/newsletters.html
The Newsletter is available as online HTML, English (downloadable HTML), English (downloadable OS/2 INF), German (downloadable HTML) and German (downloadable OS/2 INF)The July issue can also be downloaded from hobbes pub/incoming (eventual archiving to this location) The past 4+ years of VOICE Newsletter issues (Wow has it been that many years now?) are now uploaded to hobbes. You can always get these also from the VOICE homepage. :-)

In this month's issue you will find:

• The Editors of VOICE speak out: The truth is somewhere in between.
• Cool and calm with StHWMon, By: Christian Hennecke
• eComStation v1.00: First Looks, By: Isaac Leung
• eComStation 1.0, the Release Candidate., By: Don Eitner
• ImpOS/2 revisited, By: Manfred Agne
• File Sharing on the Gnutella Network using LimeWire, By: Frank Berke
• And of course the VOICE OS/2 Tips and the compiled monthly OS/2 news!

The VOICE Editors would like to thank everyone who made this issue of the VOICE Newsletter possible. We couldn't do it without your help. :-)
And as always, a big thank you to our writers, editors and translators. Without them there'd be no VOICE Newsletter. Please consider writing an article for the Newsletter. The Guidelines for Article Submissionsto the VOICE Newsletter - have been recently updated The German version is here