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Inkjet printers (slightly OT)
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newshound wrote: On 26/10/2015 14:23, newshound wrote: I occasionally want to print drawings at A3, but my ancient Laserjet 8000 has just died. I swore I would never buy another inkjet, but all the refurb A3 mono lasers are large, expensive, or both, whereas there are several smaller, cheaper colour inkjets on the market. I guess I might use one occasionally for photos or posters but I'm not worried about exhibition quality. What *really* worries me is print head dryout because I might only use it once a week. Does anyone have any views / experience on current Epson / Canon / HP or other A3 printers? Don't need duplex. (A3 scanning might very occasionally be handy). TIA Thanks to all for the helpful comments. Still musing over the options. comp.periphs.printers might be helpful if you need more input. -- teleportation kills |
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Inkjet printers (slightly OT)
On 10/26/2015 12:45 PM, android wrote:
In article , newshound wrote: On 26/10/2015 14:23, newshound wrote: I occasionally want to print drawings at A3, but my ancient Laserjet 8000 has just died. I swore I would never buy another inkjet, but all the refurb A3 mono lasers are large, expensive, or both, whereas there are several smaller, cheaper colour inkjets on the market. I guess I might use one occasionally for photos or posters but I'm not worried about exhibition quality. What *really* worries me is print head dryout because I might only use it once a week. Does anyone have any views / experience on current Epson / Canon / HP or other A3 printers? Don't need duplex. (A3 scanning might very occasionally be handy). TIA Thanks to all for the helpful comments. Still musing over the options. comp.periphs.printers might be helpful if you need more input. I had an HP932 printer, that I bought about 2000. It was used for basic document printing, and pictures. It was not used a lot but when it was used we would print a lot business cards with photo backs and brochures. Before mom died we printed a lot of photos. Point being we needed the cards and brochures about once per year, and documents less than that. In the 15 years I have had the printer I never had a problem with the print heads. I have bought its replacement, as the HP5704 printer/scanner combination was the price of the scanner. Since I have an inventory of ink for the 932, I will use it for several more years |
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Inkjet printers (slightly OT)
On Mon, 26 Oct 2015 13:28:55 -0400, Keith Nuttle
wrote: I had an HP932 printer, that I bought about 2000. It was used for basic document printing, and pictures. It was not used a lot but when it was used we would print a lot business cards with photo backs and brochures. Before mom died we printed a lot of photos. Point being we needed the cards and brochures about once per year, and documents less than that. In the 15 years I have had the printer I never had a problem with the print heads. I have bought its replacement, as the HP5704 printer/scanner combination was the price of the scanner. Since I have an inventory of ink for the 932, I will use it for several more years That parallels my own experiences. I have an ancient HP690 inker that gets used maybe once a year. Never misses a beat and never a sign of printhead blockage. Had an Epson Colour Stylus 800 (? - dumped it years back) which had to be used at least daily to avoid head blockages - and when they occurred it was a serious exercise to unblock the head. Currently for colour my main inker is a Canon iP4000, which eats ink because of the deep cleans it does due to intermittent use but is otherwise fine. The common element across these units is ... the HP print head is in the cart. Separate printhead machines have IMOE always been problematic with blockage problems. These behaviour patterns may be in part due to most of my printing needs being A4 mono and addressed by a HP laser. YMMV |
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Inkjet printers (slightly OT)
On 26/10/2015 16:45, android wrote:
In article , newshound wrote: On 26/10/2015 14:23, newshound wrote: I occasionally want to print drawings at A3, but my ancient Laserjet 8000 has just died. I swore I would never buy another inkjet, but all the refurb A3 mono lasers are large, expensive, or both, whereas there are several smaller, cheaper colour inkjets on the market. I guess I might use one occasionally for photos or posters but I'm not worried about exhibition quality. What *really* worries me is print head dryout because I might only use it once a week. Does anyone have any views / experience on current Epson / Canon / HP or other A3 printers? Don't need duplex. (A3 scanning might very occasionally be handy). TIA Thanks to all for the helpful comments. Still musing over the options. comp.periphs.printers might be helpful if you need more input. I've had HP, a 3845 deskjet, for almost 15 years, and never had a head dry out with occasional use, including 3 week vacation layovers. Best thing about HP is the head is in the cartridge, costs a bit more but very easy replacement. |
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Inkjet printers (slightly OT)
In article , Peter
wrote: I've had HP, a 3845 deskjet, for almost 15 years, and never had a head dry out with occasional use, including 3 week vacation layovers. Best thing about HP is the head is in the cartridge, costs a bit more but very easy replacement. until it comes time to profiling it. |
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