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Subject: printers, was (Re: [Leica] Not Buying M8)
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Tue Mar 11 22:59:22 2008
References: <9b678e0803100850y7f0881beu10d437070702150f@mail.gmail.com> <003701c882f4$457adc90$2101a8c0@luispersonal> <01e601c882fd$d79a75a0$86cf60e0$@net> <20080312054925.GB16972@panix.com>

HP's biggest advantage is that print heads are on the ink cartridges, so
even if it did get blocked, all you have to do is change the cartridges. The
flip side is that the cartridges are expensive.....
Cheers
Jayanand

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Rei Shinozuka <shino@panix.com> wrote:

> ha!  i have an old hp 4000 printer which i  love because, though
> you cannot print a picture with it,  you
> can ignore it completely for a month and when you need it, it just
> prints.  i don't have to clean the heads a dozen times or
> feed it ink cartriges.  this has been my unhappy legacy of
> a couple of epsons and hp printers.
>
> i was even thinking of a color laser as a compromise.
> we have an hp 3800 at work, which produces color prints that
> look somewhere in the quality range of a glossy magazine; that is,
> not quite photo quality but not that bad, considering that it always
> just works. (either that or the i.t. guys are going a great job
> of refilling it at night)
>
> -rei
>
>
> On Mar10 15:26, Frank Filippone wrote:
> > The only printer I have is a HP LaserJet 4p.
> >
> > B+W Laser for fine art printing would force me to buy something
> else.....
> > and knowing MY tastes, I would want a $2K printer.
> >
> > Nope, easy enough to not do digital.
> >
> > Frank Filippone
> > red735i@earthlink.net
> >
> >
> >  but may need a
> > new printer. Or not,
> >
> >
> >
> >
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>
> --
> Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com
> Ridgewood, New Jersey
>
>
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In reply to: Message from don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory) ([Leica] Not Buying M8)
Message from luisripoll at telefonica.net (Luis Ripoll) ([Leica] Not Buying M8)
Message from red735i at earthlink.net (Frank Filippone) ([Leica] Not Buying M8)
Message from shino at panix.com (Rei Shinozuka) (printers, was (Re: [Leica] Not Buying M8))