I recently bought a HP scanner/printer combo from argos. since yesturday I've been printing down technical documents on internet protocols, all seemed fine, until I chose to print a high-quality image from digital blasphemy. The bloody thing is 10deg off alignment, it looks lob-sided! this wouldnt be a bad thing but I was trying out the high-quality photo paper that was included, it took a resovoir of ink and ruined a good peice of paper. why is it that only when you are printing IMPORTANT images that printers choose to kick you in the whats-its
Bah, that's nothing! My Lexmark pulls the paper in from one side only (the roller thingy is on the right, not the whole way across the paper) so it almost always pulls the paper in squinty and jams about 20% of the time I neeed a new printer [/rant]
Well, seeing as I just spent €330 on the damn thing, and its only a day old, you'd expect a little more from it. If you ever get the money to get a new printer, I would highly recomend the HP scanner/combo at argos (£199 one) great features at a decent price, it doesnt even *need* a computer to copy images/files, which is handy if you own a winBLOWS box. Turns out it only needed to be aligned
this is why i only buy epson, had a epson colour 200 as my first printer & that lasted donkeys years tehn when i started college i got my epson colour 660 & never had a problem with it, dont complain about cheap cartrages, hardly ever jams & it once printed a entire ream of paper in best quality one night when i had to print all of the code, screen shots, IE page printouts for my web design class & its still going strong
get a black & white Laser HP. They're seemingly harder to kill than most. We've got a good 15 (maybe 20+) more of them here at my college and they get lots of abuse but keep churning out the pages.
yeah, I've got an old epson too (stylus colour 400) and it too still works after 4 years. built like tanks! I just felt the need to 'upgrade' to the laxmark because the old epson is veery slow (about 3ppm in fast draft mode). /me needs a laser (printer that is, not zap gun
my dad had an HP laserjet 1100. Sure looks good, but the curved plastic thingy that holds the paper upright (before it foes into the printer) is sorta curved so it often jammed (hard to explain) just recently it started randomly spitting out rollers and things, though
ive got a panasonic kx-p2123. its a 10 year old colour dotmatrix and it still works perfectly. ive got an epson 680 as well but the drivers for that are a pile of poo in xp. epsons are very good (and i wouldnt buy anything else) but they do break down.
An HP inkjet printing skew? Well I never.... My HP Deskjet 500C did that in 1992. Ten years later and HP have still not fixed the problem, preferring instead to rely on their reputation to sell printers. That said, HP Lasers are very good, but you pay a lot more for them compared to comparable models from other manufacturers (for example, just over two years ago I got my Brother laser. I paid £350 for a 12ppm, 600x1200, Postscript L2, network interface (100Mbps) laser. To get the same spec from HP, I'd have had to go for the 2100M at the time, which didn't offer the network interface, and would have cost well over £700. I've put well over 4200 pages through the brother, and it has been truly superb. Sure, if I had the money I'd spring for an HP LJ 5000 series printer just like that, but if money is an issue, there's good printers for less. Inkjets? Epson have HP beat on running cost, print quality and actually printing straight....
im tempted to buy a network laser printer so i can whip high speed copies off but keep my inkjet as it is a damn good print on the glossy photography paper but thats at the bottom of the list of things i need to buy
My Deskjet 940C has been known to skew the printing at times but it seems pretty good to me when it works (bearing in mind before this I was using a 5 year old HP690C borrowed from my dads work!) I've had a couple of Epsons before and because i didn't use it much the print heads clog up with old ink (apparently), stopping the printer from working, and when they break in this way you need a new printer, where as the HP (with the print head built into the cartridge it seems) you buy another cartridge....but then this makes the cartridges cost more so its a double edged sword I guess.
actually will. the cleaning cartridge fluid works quite well at unblocking heads, but it is bloody annoying and very time consuming
