RE: Printers ....WAS Digital Cameras

["Phillip Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

Oh how I laughed as I read that!

I have a networked printer (an HP 2100TN) on my desk at work and the only
way that I could install that was - same as you - install it as a local
printer but without printing a test page (as obviously there was no
parallel
cable between my PC and the printer), then reinstall the printer as a
networked printer and ask it to use the same drivers as for the local
printer then delete the local printer. The killer is that the "N"
part of
"2100TN" means that it is supposed to be a standalone networked
only
printer!

Unfortunately in the quest for ever cheaper prices the standards of
production have seemed to suffer for most things. I have to have multiple
machines at home just to make sure that I can run all the software I want
as
none of the software I want is stable on every version of Windoze!

What can you expect though? I can buy a new HP2000C for £280 ... it's a
good
quality, reasonably quick and very solidly built colour printer. However,
to
replace the four printheads costs £27 each (£108 total), to replace the
four
ink carts costs £32 each (£128 total) ... someone is therefore saying that
either the printer costs about £60 to make or noone is actually making
money
on printers any more (and I'm sure it's the latter) - no wonder they're
trying to tie us into having to use nothing but original manufacturer
supplies!

Phil

By The Way : I'm at about the same stage with Linux as you are!

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Doxey [mailto:keith.doxey@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2001 5:12 AM
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Printers ....WAS [ukha_d] Digital Cameras


No Thanks :-)

Gave up on my HP Deskjet 660C after it kept telling me the black cartridge
was not installed properly. A new (although out of date) cartridge cured
that proving that the cartride was to blame. That was the second defective
cartridge I'd had. Previous one was a colour cart that gave mustard
coloured
yellows and rust coloured reds :-(

I now have more than enough trouble with my networked Lexmark 5700.

To install it on other machines, you have to install it as a local printer
then reinstall as a network printer at which point it says it has the
drivers and you use the existing ones.

All attempts to initially install it as a network printer resulted in it
"trying" to install the drivers from the host machine and failing
miserably.

The problem I have is that the printer driver tracks how much ink it thinks
it has used and tells you when you are out of ink. Trouble is it doesnt
know
what the other PC's have printed. When you change a cartridge, one machine
will say the cartridge is full but the others will have different ideas
about how much ink is left.

Also when Sharon prints from her machine, mine will sometimes pop up a box
saying the connected printer is NOT a 5700 and continue in
"limited" mode.
This results in the title line of a Word document not getting printed. If I
access the same document from my PC I can print it fine !!!

Go Figure !!!!

Laserjet 4 is now the default printer for ALL PC's although my machine
decided the other day to have a "I once had this setting in my
registy, so I
think I will use it again" day and make the Lexmark my default
printer.

Ah! Windows. Dont you just love^H^H^H^H tolerate it :-)

Keith

(Who still hasnt got a Linux box running despite having about 5 different
install CD's aquired over the last 3 years)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phillip Harris [mailto:phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 06 January 2001 20:24
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Digital Cameras
>
>
> It's more likely that with a bit of investigation some enterprising
person
> my be able to produce some software an an adaptor cable to be able to
read
> and adjust the data stored in the nvm on the cartridges and
> printheads (then
> maybe you could simply refill the ink cartridges with bulk inks).
> A bit like
> clocking cars (or like changing the colour of the crystal in the hands
of
> the people in Logans Run again!)
>
> Anyone fancy taking up the challenge?
>
> Keith? *grin*
>