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RE: Printers ....WAS Digital Cameras
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- Subject: RE: Printers ....WAS Digital Cameras
- From: "Timothy Morris" <timothy.morris@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 13:51:54 -0000
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I've found it to be pretty
reliable,
but I am an extremely light user - 50 pages a month plus about 20 full
colour
photos. I haven't had any problems with either ink cartridges or print
heads
yet, but then I wouldn't expect to. HP so make a loss on every
printer
they sell, and expect to recoup the money in consumable sales.
Tim.
-----Original Message-----
From: Phillip Harris [mailto:phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx]
Sent:
06 January 2001 21:37
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: RE: Printers
....WAS
[ukha_d] Digital Cameras
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!
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