Originally Posted by
DaKid
Hi guys,
My father-in-law has been buying cheap PCs off eBay to act as workstations for the industrial printers he installs/sells. He's been paying around £250 for these, but we think it might be possible (I'm fairly sure it is!) for me to buy the components (I normally use Scan) and build them cheaper, and we can split the savings!
It has to be "powerful" enough to cope with sending print data, via USB, to a printer and the printing software requires Windows 7 (finally ... they were still using XP earlier this year!). We think around 8GB of RAM, but beyond that I'm not sure much else is needed.
What sort of budget could we build stuff for that would be reliable (important), cheap and just fast/powerful enough to do this? VAT would be reclaimable, so could we be talking £150+VAT, or maybe even cheaper?
Help much appreciated, as I've been out of the component market for a very long time!