RE: OT : Printers...

["Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

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Yup .... from just taking a look it seems that that is *EXACTLY* what has happened .... and for the black cart too! The plunger for the black cart is down whereas all the others are up.

 

I was somewhat peeved to see that although at first glance the 2200 took the same carts and heads as the 2000 when I looked at the specs they've actually changed the design slightly. (I have a couple of full sets of colour & black carts for my 2000C and at £120 a set then I don't really want to throw this printer away.) At least these carts are a fiver cheaper than the number 10's that the 2000C uses and seem to hold a tad more ink!

 

It's a real shame as the 2000C is a damn good (and fast) printer on the whole but it has been less reliable than the 895CXi that I had before it (and sold to my now mother in law) - I had a blue printhead fail after about 6 months, a black printhead fail after 13 months (both well within their 24,000/12,000 page lifespan). I was also really peeved at the built in obsolecence of the printheads which shut down after two years (shades of Bladerunner here).

 

Phil 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Dr John Tankard [mailto:john@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 14 January 2002 18:43
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: RE: [ukha_d] OT : Printers...

Phil,

 

I had a 2000C which packed up (1 month out of warranty) the problem was with the plungers which pressurise the ink cartridges, I gather it was a design fault.

 

I looked around and and replaced it with 2200, which is a better printer, you can only use the black cart's from the 2000c the colour ones are different as are the print heads ;-(

 

You will find the duplexing better on the 2200, although manual, there is a LCD display which tells you what to do and you just press a button on the printer to resume.

 

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Harris [mailto:phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 14 January 2002 17:31
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: [ukha_d] OT : Printers...

My beloved HP2000C workhorse seems to have gone titsup.com last night so I need to start looking round for a decent replacement printer. Ideally another 2000C or 2500C would be great (as I have small stocks of spare consumables at £30 an ink cart!) so if anyone on the list knows where there is one going (they'll be secondhand now of course as they've been discontinued for a couple of years) then could they give me a shout?

 

Alternatively does anyone have any suggestions for a suitable replacement? My criteria are:

 

1) Decent paper handling. Should store the paper flat and supported so it doesn't "sag" or get dusty and should ideally hold 150 sheets or more.

 

2) Separate ink carts for the 4 colours. I'm not looking for a photo printer as I have an Epson 1290 for that - this means I'm not looking for a printer which has 5 or 6 "colour" carts in addition to black ... just the usual CMY.

 

3) Parallel I/F - I hang the printer off a network print server so a parallel I/F is a must however I guess I could hook it via USB to my server and just share it if necessary.

 

4) Automatic duplexing would be usefull.

 

So far I've been looking at the HP 2200 and 1700 series - the 2200 doesn't support automatic duplexing though and the 1700 is an A3 printer (which I rarely need).

 

Colour lasers are to big/expensive for what I need and I would guess for a decent 2200 series (probably a 2250) or for a 1700D I'd be looking at about £400 so that's the kind of ballpark ... if anyone has any suggestions then I'd love to hear 'em.

 

Phil

 

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