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How to print a file from the command line? Epson, Brother
On 3/8/2017 9:46 AM, Mayayana wrote:
"Paul" wrote | The cartridges should cap themselves when in the parked position. | Something has to cover the orifices, or they'd clog even faster | than that. | That's news to me. I have an HP Envy 5660 that I mostly only use for business contracts and the like, leaving it turned off otherwise. I probably use it about once per month. Sometimes every two months. Recently it began fading, worse with each print, until there was very little printed on the page. But the cartridges are both full and not very old. The self-cleaning routines had no effect. I found advice online to soak the jets in warm water and dab them on a paper towel. That worked. Though the color print quality is still not perfect. It may be that the unusually dry Winter weather has caused the problem, but I wouldn't trust the printer itself to keep the cartridges functioning by "parking" them. I wonder if maybe removing and wrapping in plastic wrap, perhaps in the fridge, would be a good method. Why not get a laser printer rather than go through all of that? I learned long ago that infrequently used inkjet printers fail. Those with heads separate from the cartridge are the worst. I'm currently experimenting with a new HP inkjet that I print to a couple times a week at most, and so far it still prints decent color. But, if it fails, at least I don't have a lot invested in it. -- best regards, Neil |
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How to print a file from the command line? Epson, Brother
"Neil" wrote
| Why not get a laser printer rather | than go through all of that? I'm not familiar with laser. My impression has been that they're more expensive and mainly used for large volumes of b/w printing. I sometimes use color, do very little printing in general, and sometimes use the scanner. So a cheap all-in-one works well for me. I just printed out about 20 business receipts recently. I use 2, with a sheet of carbon paper, for each job in my contracting business. It's probably an average of 3-4 months to do 10 jobs. I might need to print out a few contracts in that time. Maybe some address labels. That's about it. (Ironically, I bought a package of carbon paper many years ago -- probably at least 15 years -- and I'm still using it. I'm surprised that no company has managed to come out with a greatly improved product. The print quality keeps improving. The speed keeps improving. But given the undependability and the cost per print, especially for high quality images, I don't find printers to be very useful. The cost of ink is beyond absurd. It's almost high enough to justify buying a new printer when the intro cartridges run out. If printers came with full cartridges then it actually would be cheaper to just replace the printer when the ink ran low. |
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How to print a file from the command line? Epson, Brother
Mayayana wrote:
"Neil" wrote | Why not get a laser printer rather | than go through all of that? I'm not familiar with laser. My impression has been that they're more expensive and mainly used for large volumes of b/w printing. I sometimes use color, do very little printing in general, and sometimes use the scanner. So a cheap all-in-one works well for me. I just printed out about 20 business receipts recently. I use 2, with a sheet of carbon paper, for each job in my contracting business. It's probably an average of 3-4 months to do 10 jobs. I might need to print out a few contracts in that time. Maybe some address labels. That's about it. (Ironically, I bought a package of carbon paper many years ago -- probably at least 15 years -- and I'm still using it. If you get a monochrome laser they can be very inexpensive. Can get them for under 100 USD. But better to get one for about 150 USD. If you don't have much volume they will be an even better value than inkjet because they do not "dry-out-and-clog" when you don't use them for an extended period of time. The toner cartridge will properly last you for years and even the replacement for monochrome toner will be about 30 USD. Color lasers are another story. -- Take care, Jonathan ------------------- LITTLE WORKS STUDIO http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com |
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How to print a file from the command line? Epson, Brother
On Tue, 07 Mar 2017 17:14:31 -0500, micky wrote:
Is there a command line that would print one picture from my files using an Epson printer? a Brother printer? I should have thought of this earlier, but I need something to keep the ink jet printers from drying out while I'm gone. Isn't 11 weeks enough time to do that? I thought I'd make a bat file that would run once a month that would print, I guess, the same photo each time, but it's only 2 copies. I'd just take the cartridges out and pop them in a plastic bag. If you are really worried you can get cleaning cartridges, pop a set of them in before you go away. -- Faster, cheaper, quieter than HS2 and built in 5 years; UKUltraspeed http://www.500kmh.com/ |
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How to print a file from the command line? Epson, Brother
On Wed, 08 Mar 2017 22:04:04 -0500, Mayayana wrote:
I'm surprised that no company has managed to come out with a greatly improved product. They have. It's called a laser printer. Colour lasers are now quite cheap. The consumables often aren't, but I only use mine for *colour* printing. Otherwise I use a 25 year old Laserjet 4M+. And the cost of consumables is not so bad when you think of all the dried up ink cartridges you had to throw away. |
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How to print a file from the command line? Epson, Brother
Mayayana wrote:
I'm surprised that no company has managed to come out with a greatly improved product. The print quality keeps improving. The speed keeps improving. But given the undependability and the cost per print, especially for high quality images, I don't find printers to be very useful. The cost of ink is beyond absurd. It's almost high enough to justify buying a new printer when the intro cartridges run out. If printers came with full cartridges then it actually would be cheaper to just replace the printer when the ink ran low. That's one of the reasons the teaser cart capacity had to drop. At one time, the carts were generous enough, it did indeed make sense to buy new printers rather than buy replacement carts. So the number of prints in a teaser had to drop. Even modern lasers, the teaser toner cartridge has to be tweaked in the downward direction, to make the pricing model work. For the ink cartridge size, you can fit about three different "quantity" SKUs into that footprint. You cannot fill the inkjet cartridge absolutely full, because of the pressure compensation mechanism - the cart has to be sealed as well as possible to avoid dry-out, but at the same time, you cannot have a large pressure differential between inside and outside, or the "2 picoliter pumps" cannot work against the pressure. That's why there are patents on the "sponge material" inside the cart. It's one mechanism used for managing the pressure. ******* And the "thing" that started the chain reaction, was Tektronix and the wax printer. The printer cost around 10K or so (our vice president who used to sit 300 feet from my desk, had one). The business model changed to "rental consumables" - you could pay some price per month, and not only was the printer provided for free, you would get a certain quantity of wax. So after you'd owned it for a number of years, the printer was paid for, and every month after that would mean a big profit for whatever company was running the scheme at the time. I don't know if we kept ours through that interval. I think I was allowed to print a single page on that thing once :-) What a privilege :-) I had to ask the VP secretary for permission. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_ink So when the makers of other printers saw that model, they didn't wait to see the P&L statement of the company managing the operation. They went nuts. And were only too eager to offer printers at material cost, and inks "more expensive than gold". Praying for idiots to come along, who could not do sums or figure out their monthly expenditure on carts etc., to fork out huge wodges of cash. Even the products my company made, our pricing people had to mull those two choices for pricing models. And in many cases, it was staring at the competitor pricing sheet that made the decision, rather than a "coin flip". So when a pricing model takes hold, it can be infectious. Paul |
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How to print a file from the command line? Epson, Brother
On 3/8/2017 10:04 PM, Mayayana wrote:
"Neil" wrote | Why not get a laser printer rather | than go through all of that? I'm not familiar with laser. My impression has been that they're more expensive and mainly used for large volumes of b/w printing. I include the time that I spend maintaining my equipment in the "cost" column for my business. The time you spend soaking your cartridges and getting the printer to print a reliable page again would pay for a much more expensive printer unless your time is worth almost nothing. The time spent maintaining a laser printer in that manner is zero, even if you only printed one page per year. I'm surprised that no company has managed to come out with a greatly improved product. The print quality keeps improving. The speed keeps improving. But given the undependability and the cost per print, especially for high quality images, I don't find printers to be very useful. The cost of ink is beyond absurd. It's almost high enough to justify buying a new printer when the intro cartridges run out. If printers came with full cartridges then it actually would be cheaper to just replace the printer when the ink ran low. These are very subjective assessments. I don't print "high quality images" on either my lasers or inkjet printers; I use those printers for editing and proofing and use appropriate high-end devices (which I neither own nor have to maintain) for final output. -- best regards, Neil |
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