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Old January 7th 16, 03:18 PM posted to comp.periphs.printers
Keith Nuttle
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Default What printer brands?

On 1/6/2016 10:06 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On Tue, 05 Jan 2016 07:57:51 GMT, default
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Thanks to all for the suggestions. I'm impressed with all the responses,
as it looks like newsgroups are becoming dinosaurs. So bottom line is the
well-known brands all have fans. Good to know. No one commented on my
complaint about my AIO being completely dead for lack of 4 good
cartridges. I still would like to know if some brands don't have that
characteristic.


HP uses a single color cartridge. AFAIK it will continue to print
black if one color goes out and will continue to print color but will
not look right if one color is out.





Six years ago I avoided HP because I'd read some horror stories about
their customer services. I will reconsider.



Can't help you there. I've personally owned 5 HP printers over the
last 25 or so years and have 6 of them at work. Never had reason to
ever call customer service.

One of the laser printers that gets the heaviest use did break down
after about 6 years. Called a local printer service company and they
guy was at our place than same morning and had us up and running in 20
minutes.

To support that above, I bought an HP-932 printer in 2000. It has been
used to print double sided business cards, brochure, pictures, and other
routine print jobs.

The only reason it is scheduled for replacement is the HP scanner that I
bought about the same time is no longer supported and I can not find
Windows 8 or 10 drivers for it.

The printer scanner combinations cost less than the scanner alone.
While we have an inventory of ink for the printer, the cartridges are
becoming scarce, so for that reason it may not be possible to continue
to use it.
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Old January 8th 16, 07:58 AM posted to comp.periphs.printers
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Do you need color? How much printing do you do?
I've found that HP has been a solid performer no matter the
model/category. If you use little color, consider a laser for the
black printing and a separate color setup.


What color laser printers? :/
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Old January 8th 16, 10:16 AM posted to comp.periphs.printers
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On Thu, 07 Jan 2016 22:58:26 -0800, Ant wrote:

Do you need color? How much printing do you do?
I've found that HP has been a solid performer no matter the
model/category. If you use little color, consider a laser for the
black printing and a separate color setup.


What color laser printers? :/


Mine have been mostly beige.
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Old January 8th 16, 02:53 PM posted to comp.periphs.printers
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From: "Bob Eager"

On Thu, 07 Jan 2016 22:58:26 -0800, Ant wrote:

Do you need color? How much printing do you do?
I've found that HP has been a solid performer no matter the
model/category. If you use little color, consider a laser for the
black printing and a separate color setup.


What color laser printers? :/


Mine have been mostly beige.


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Old January 8th 16, 09:58 PM posted to comp.periphs.printers
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Bob Eager wrote:
On Thu, 07 Jan 2016 22:58:26 -0800, Ant wrote:


Do you need color? How much printing do you do?
I've found that HP has been a solid performer no matter the
model/category. If you use little color, consider a laser for the
black printing and a separate color setup.


What color laser printers? :/


Mine have been mostly beige.


LOL! I meant "which color laser printers?"
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Old January 8th 16, 11:01 PM posted to comp.periphs.printers
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On Fri, 08 Jan 2016 14:58:40 -0600, Ant wrote:

Bob Eager wrote:
On Thu, 07 Jan 2016 22:58:26 -0800, Ant wrote:


Do you need color? How much printing do you do?
I've found that HP has been a solid performer no matter the
model/category. If you use little color, consider a laser for the
black printing and a separate color setup.

What color laser printers? :/


Mine have been mostly beige.


LOL! I meant "which color laser printers?"


I know - sorry!

For black and white, I use a couple of HP LaserJet 4M+ machines (circa
1993). Still going strong and common spares are still available.

For colour, I bought a cheap Samsung machine. Don't use it that much. But
I picked up (free) am HP 2600n colour machine. It doesn't do PCL but soem
weird protocol but works OK on Windows.

The 2600n was interesting. I got it free because it was 'broken'. It had
a heavy magenta cast on all pages. I discovered that in fact all colour
toner cartridges were empty, and the magenta one was spilling toner from
its integral waste bin. New toner cartridges, and a cleaning cycle on the
transfer nelt, and it's 100%. As it should be; the colour cartridges were
the original ones, and the black cartridge was only the second ever. The
machine had only ever done just over 4000 pages!
 




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