(OT) Printer

[John Rumm]

CLX-4195FN might be more up your street (no duplex though)

[stuart noble]

I haven't regretted my decision to go mono laser at home and upload colour to Aldi or whoever. I took 3 or 4 inkjets to the tip and have never looked back. I think I stamped on them first, which was strangely therapeutic

[harry]

There is a website about this matter that tells how to circumvent this problem. Different for different manufacturers. I'll see if I can find it.

[Nightjar]

On 03/12/2012 14:11, David wrote: ...

Lexmark printers used to keep a record of the last two sets of cartridges fitted, so having three sets would allow you to keep refilling and reusing the same ones. It is a couple of years since I sold my ink cartridge business, so I don't know if that is still true.

Colin Bignell

[Nightjar]

For printers with the print head in the cartridge, like Lexmark and HP, taking the cartridges out and wrapping them in cling film can help avoid clogging for low volume users.

Colin Bignell

[Tim Watts]

Thanks John - I'll download the manual then and had a shufty.

I was looking at an HP M475dn - but as I said, HP are getting a bad name for the consumer level gear - so I'm not sure I fancy the risk.

[Tim Watts]

Thabnks John - I'll have a look.

[tony sayer]

We just used the basic printer driver that was on their website and when we specify which mode to connect hit network and it finds it and connects and just works..

Thats a long as she hasn't got a paper feed strop on;!..

If you want to see what's going on just use the web browser to gain access..

Thats ridiculously long, have you tried their basic drivers they do what you need and just that..

!..

[tony sayer]

I have heard an Inkjet refill shop say that a lot of makers ones aren't quite as full as they might be;!...

[The Natural Philosopher]

i've not regretted a SOHO class color laser., Have a scanner,. but mostly I take photographs unless its very critical to get sizes right.

[fred]

In article , tony sayer writes

I really wanted to take advantage of the one touch scanning features and figured that I wouldn't get them without the control centre installed.

Throwing a pile of A4 at the document feeder and hitting scan is one of my main uses for it.

I figure with basic drivers I would be limited to regular twain type scanning.

They clearly have something wrong in the setup, I copied the setup CD to a drive, turned off AV and it still took ages.

See above, I assumed (rightly or wrongly) that one touch scanning wouldn't work with just basic drivers and that I'd need to use twain. With the panel installed, setting up of button functions is done remotely and then uploaded to the printer. With multiple comps on the net there were options on the printer to set the destination eg Scan colour > Select resolution > Select destination > Start.

Do you use anything like that?

Quite.

[tony sayer]

Ah!, think we might be at cross purposes here. The Canon unit was an all in one unit but the HP is just a printer. We use a couple of Canon single plate scanners around 30 quid from Dixons or similar places.!

We don't use FAX anymore we can but seeing the scan and attach to e-mails is the prime paper communications medium these days ...

[fred]

In article , tony sayer writes

Are you sure it's an 8600, when I search for HP 8600 I get nothing but all in ones eg:

www8.hp.com/uk/en/products/printers/product-detail.html?oid=4323650

which sort of explains the confusion.

I keep fax for sending complaints ;-)

[tony sayer]

In article , fred scribeth thus

This is what's writ on the front of it...

HP Officejet Pro k8600

No thats totally different!,. Perhaps the "K" makes the difference. You'd have thought they could have used a different number;!..

Well they one we have is a few years olde now ISTR we bought it in 2007 or thereabouts as it has A3 capability..

which sort of explains the confusion.

;!...

[The Natural Philosopher]

blimey. Its been years since I sent a fax scanned on a scanner and fed to a fax modem..

These days I send em on dead trees by recorded delivery.

[Java Jive]

[David]

This is what I have found, now you mention it.

David

[David]

I have a history of jumping on things that get me annoyed, I thoroughly agree it is therapeutic, and expensive.

David

[David]

I think I will be, now.

David

[bert]

The Epson I had insisted on issuing a warning prompt which required a response every time you went to print when using a "compatible"