OT: Any printer recommendations?

[F]

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I have a Canon MG6250 that does most of what you want and has done it well for a couple or so years now.

[Mark]

And then you have to throw away the half full cartridge as you can't unblock it.

[Mark]

Both Epson and HP for me. I know that HP have a different design but it doesn't seem to help.

OTOH I am very pleased with my HP1515n laser, although the official toner is very expensive.

[Roger Mills]

Thanks for the suggestion - but that wouldn't really work for my wife. Besides taking up more desk space, she prints very few documents that don't have at least *some* colour - such as bits of clip-art, or bits of text highlighted in yellow.

[Roger Mills]

Already done that, I'm afraid - to no avail. Couldn't get any yellow through at any price - so I went one further, on a 'nothing to lose' basis, and partially dismantled the head in order to try to clear the passageways. The result of that was even worse because I fear that the gasket hasn't re-seated correctly, so that the colours merge into a muddy mess. Pure black is still 'reasonable' although we do tend to get a few unscheduled artefacts on every page. A genuine new print head is of the order of 150 quid. There seem to be some - of dubious parentage and customs status - from Hong Kong for about 50 quid - but that sounds a bit risky. SWMBO has decided that she wants a new printer!

Thanks for your other helpful comments (which I haven't quoted here).

[Roger Mills]

How easy is it to have a computer connected to a home network without being connected to the internet? I mean having the ability to share files with computers which *do* have internet access without itself having it. Is it just a matter of giving it a duff gateway address?

[Mike Barnes]

Roger Mills :

I found it pretty easy - I went to the firewall section of my router's configuration, and dropped all outbound packets from that PC.

[John Rumm]

Yup, that would do it. Or allocate it a fixed IP and then block that at the firewall in the router.

We have a customer with a non linear video editing system, that for reasons of performance and application stability does not want AV software on it or any automatic updates. So he has a separate machine as his net connected one, and that is multihomed (i.e. has two network cards in it). One talks to the rest of his network, and the internet router, the other is a private subnet shared with just the NLE station. It works quite well. He can share folders with the 'net connected machine, but has not direct access to it. The net connected machine can run full AV without slowing performance on the NLE box, but still ensuring that anything passed from the net to the NLE box is scanned first.

[The Natural Philosopher]

firewall setup in the router itself but yes, no default route will do it too.

[Mike Tomlinson]

In article , Tim Lamb writes

The point is that by the time the likes of Norton* detect nastyware, it's already in your system. The patches issued by M$ (hopefully) prevent the compromise occurring in the first place.

• I wouldn't trust bloated crapware like Norton to detect a fart in a wet paper bag

[www.GymRatZ.co.uk]

Ease of toner re-filling is a worthy consideration. (as we are talking on a D-I-Y group)

Buy a brand new toner cartridge (not re-manufactured) and you can get at least one full re-fill without any printing degredation. I found that into the 2nd fill sometimes the reservoir(?) that collects un-used toner from each print can get full but it is also possible to empty that out and re-plug when re-filling the cart. though I didn't ever try as 1 re-fill seemed like the best option without pushing the other components too far.

[Tim Lamb]

In message , Mike Tomlinson writes

:-)

Perhaps we could study this in more depth prior to next April. I am very comfortable with XP

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[Dave Plowman (News)]

Mine has too - suddenly stopped printing colour. Still prints black, though.

[Mark]

2013 must be a bad year for Canon print heads my much loved i865 has just failed with the dreaded 5 amber lights ;(

RIP

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[Mark]

that is passably a blocked purge pump, (google it) if you are not getting the 5 amber flashing lights print head could still be ok

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