[Info-vax] OT: HP Poised to merge PC and printer divisions
John Wallace
johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk
Sun Mar 25 05:23:21 EDT 2012
On Mar 24, 5:02 pm, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net>
wrote:
> On 3/24/2012 9:48 AM, Paul Sture wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:05:26 -0700, mathog wrote:
>
> >> Paul Sture wrote:
> >>>> Rich Jordan wrote:
>
> >>>> Well, this one is simple to answer. Use Brother printers. They don't
> >>>> charge you anything to talk to you, before or after the sale. Even
> >>>> after the printer is out of warranty.
>
> >>> I've been very happy with the Brother printer I have. It just works, no
> >>> fuss.
>
> >> +1 for the Brother printers. We have a 5250DN (a little double sided
> >> laser, the current version of it is the 5370DW) at home and that thing
> >> has been fast and reliable since day one. I'm probably asking for it
> >> just by saying this, but in the 5 years we have had it we have never
> >> had a page that didn't print correctly. Mechanically it is great - so
> >> far not even a single paper jam.
>
> > Mine's a cheaper USB only version. No double sided, but it's easy to
> > print even pages, flip the paper and then do the odd pages. Not that I
> > do anything like the amount of manual printing I used to.
>
> > No paper jams here either.
>
> >> The one and only thing I don't like about that printer is that peak
> >> current draw can top 10A, so it does not play nicely on a shared circuit
> >> with anything else that uses a lot of current. Average current use is
> >> much lower, and when it goes into sleep mode it only uses about 9W of
> >> power.
>
> > Ah, the "delights" of circuit breakers which trip at lowish levels... It
> > took me a while to get used to that. Fortunately my printer doesn't use
> > so much.
>
> I've been using an H-P Laserjet 4000 for almost ten years. I'm only on
> my second toner cartridge. I have the "JetDirect" card so all the
> computers in the house can use the printer.
>
> As for circuit breakers, they come in various sizes; I have 15 Ampere
> and 20 Ampere breakers in my home. You are supposed to match the
> capacity of the circuit with the rating of the breaker. The largest I
> ever saw was rated at 300 Amperes. It came to my attention and that of
> several hundred others when some idiot connected a 500 Ampere load.
>
> The circuit breaker's protest was dramatic! Much of it vaporized!
> Power was off for much of the day while the mess was cleaned up and
> a replacement breaker was found and installed.
My experience of HP inkjet printers started with the Deskjet 500 (a
very very long time ago). I still sometimes see and use a ten or so
year old Deskjet 970 which I bought ten years ago but is no longer my
own printer. It has decent printing quality and performance, automatic
duplexing, and still has relatively affordable ink even at HP prices.
After buying the DJ970 I continued to recommend and buy HP printers
for a few years for friends neighbours etc.
I stopped recommending/buying HP after the decrease in quality and
cost effectiveness (as well as cost) of multiple models of HP printers
in comparison with the rise in the cost of ink was so dramatic that it
was clearly a strategy not just an accident.
I've liked Canon for the last few years.
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