Just re-installed Win10 from DVD and.....

[nlinecomputers]

Most everything on those Oki's are easy to get to / repair / replace / fix. It's just that in this cust's the rails that carriage ride on get dirty on the ends and the carriage doesn't want to home correctly. But you already knew that, didn't you?

Yep, seen it plenty of times. I'm just amazed that they still make them. But you can buy brand new Oki ML320s which is the exact same printer they have made for over 20 years.

 

[kwisher]

..and I bet you are an authorized M$ reseller or refurbisher?

Personally I quit installing from DVD a long time ago. I now do it via USB and most of my images are created using some sort of update integration tool - rt7Lite for windows 7 images, etc.. Yes it takes a little longer this way, but I have no problem with that. And since we aren't super busy (haven't been for years) and I only work part-time.....well I think you catch my drift.

I did work on 3 Okidata 9-pin printers this morning - just needed cleaning and lubrication as most do from this client. Oh and needed a print head but those are super easy to replace!

I don't understand your point/question? Time is $$$ no matter if you are full or part-time. Why would I need to be an "Authorized" MS reseller to make or use a sysprepped image?

 

[Porthos]

Why would I need to be an "Authorized" MS reseller to make or use a sysprepped image?

Here we go again. I am going to just get my popcorn ready.

 

[kwisher]

Someone please provide me with official documentation that using a cloned sysprepped image is somehow illegal? My Google-Foo returns nothing official from MS. I do this at my 9-5 job at a K-12 school to deploy Windows with FOG.

 

[Porthos]

I do this at my 9-5 job at a K-12 school to deploy Windows

You most likely are covered under a Volume license agreement at the school.

 

[nlinecomputers]

Volume License Owners are specifically allowed to use images. Major Tier OEMs are allowed to use images and are required to provide a recovery partition with said image on it or disks with an image on it. They also have the option to provide just install media if what they ship is fairly baseline, few or no third party software, but such media must be bios locked (SLP) to the system.

White box OEMs can use images so long as the end user gets a proper OOBE setup.

Refurbishers are directly prohibited from using images.

Using an image for repair simply isn't covered. It is taken as inferred by some because of the limits applied to the Refurbishers but I can't find any direct prohibition of it.