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Somebody did once tell me that Epson are not
in
business to sell printers. They are in business to sell
INK!
I don't have one, my printer is a HP 850C,
which
has been very good, until I installed my network. There are a few
machines
on the network, but only two that I try and print from, the one that
physically
has the printer connected doesn't like printing anymore! Somewhere on
my
to do list is to install something like an Intel Netport and use IP based
printing.
Any experiences?
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2001 1:51
PM
Subject: RE: Printers ....WAS [ukha_d]
Digital Cameras
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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