Aug wrote --

But the units are mostly rentals. Pitney-Bowes is a big name
of those things. So.. if it is not used, you still pay out
something every month. Not practical for just one person.

A temp job years ago involved taking a stamp machine to the post office every so often to be refilled.
I worked as a temp for several years and loved it.
Don't like a job? Won't be there long.
Is the job boring? Only there for so long.
Some places I liked and a very few were miserable.
I could tell what a job was going to be like. It if paid well it was
clean and easy. If lower pay then dirty and messy.
Did a lot of different things and in different places and worked a lot of different people.

My printer is a HP Envoy. Replaced another HP I knocked to the floor by accident in the spring.

Seriously Joe, you need to use tables with at least 4 legs,
not just 2.

But the two legged table was on sale for half price. :)
I was doing my spring cleaning and moved the small bookcase the printer
was on and got tangled up in the wires and pulled it off unto the floor.

And most lasers are nice and heavy - harder to persuade to
slide off a table if pulled by its tail.

I like the cartridge because I can refill them.
Joe
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JOE MACKEY wrote to AUGUST ABOLINS <=-

And most lasers are nice and heavy - harder to persuade to
slide off a table if pulled by its tail.

I like the cartridge because I can refill them.

I've been lucky with printers - I've been a fan of multi-function
inkjets for some time; I don't print a lot, but I scan a lot of
documents to PDF and Canon MFP inkjets do nicely.

My previous printer's ink was expensive - $50 or so for a kit with
color, B&W and 25 sheets of 4x6 photo paper, or $35 for third-party
ink, which the driver would complain about not being able to detect
ink levels.

A neighbor had a Canon MX920 MFP out on his driveway marked free,
and I couldn't pass it up for the price. Tried printing from it, and
every other page would jam coming out of the exit feed.

Did some poking around and noticed that a highlighter had fallen into
the feed. Removed the highlighter and it prints perfectly - and a
free highlighter, too!

I was pleasantly surprised to find that it takes CYMK/PG cartridges,
which last longer, and that third party cartidge packs of all the
colors/blacks costs around $10 - and work perfectly.

Keeping with the name of the echo, I still miss my HP Deskjet 500.
First printer I had, lasted forever. Ran on 3rd-party ink and
refillable cartridges all day long. Back then, HPs were built like
tanks and were easy to work on.



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Hello Kurt!

** On Saturday 21.11.20 - 08:17, Kurt Weiske wrote to JOE MACKEY:

Keeping with the name of the echo, I still miss my HP
Deskjet 500. First printer I had, lasted forever. Ran on
3rd-party ink and refillable cartridges all day long.
Back then, HPs were built like tanks and were easy to
work on.

I have an HP CP2025N Laserjet from 2009. Still works
wonderfully. I tried the budget compatible cartridges for a
little while but the formulations tended to produce streaks
over time. Ever since I switched back to the genuine HP
cartidges, no problem.

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Hello Kurt!

** On Sunday 22.11.20 - 08:37, Kurt Weiske wrote to August Abolins:

Those old HPs keep on going. I worked at a company with
probably 150 printers scattered around a campus of
buildings. I had my new techs do a scavenger hunt, and
one of the questions was to get a configuration page
from the oldest printer on campus.

Sounds like fun. I like the sound of scavenger hunts that
require a bit of research and resourcefulness.

They found a Laserjet 4M with 500K+ pages on it. I
didn't even know it was still running!

The configuration page was a good way to confirm success. But,
could imagine that some other students could have sabotaged
the competition by removing the paper or something.

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Aug wrote --

I've been lucky with printers - I've been a fan of multi-function
inkjets for some time; I don't print a lot, but I scan a lot of
documents to PDF and Canon MFP inkjets do nicely.

I do more scanning than printing as well.
My first scanner, back around 1995 or so, was dreadful. Forget what it
was. A stand alone scanner.
When I replaced my dot matrix (ribbons were getting scarcer and scarcer)
was a Lexmark 3 in 1.
It was ok as it went, but I always had trouble getting the ink cartridge
to fit. It was some odd twist, turn, push down deal.
My second 3 in 1 was another Lexmark and the same problem.
Finally got a HP and it slips in the first time and stays there.

My previous printer's ink was expensive - $50 or so for a kit with
color, B&W and 25 sheets of 4x6 photo paper

I very seldom use the coloured ink. Most of what I print are b/w
documents.
I did try sending Christmas "cards" one year where I printed off a
painting from the net. That really used up the colour and also took almost as long to dry as the original oil painting. :)

the driver would complain about not being able to detect ink levels.

I just go by the darkness of the ink.
When it starts fading out I know its time for a refill.

Did some poking around and noticed that a highlighter had fallen into
the feed.

It usually is something simple.
I had problems one time and poking around found a piece of hard candy had fallen into the feed. How in the world that got in there I have no idea. Fished it out and fine after that.

Keeping with the name of the echo, I still miss my HP Deskjet 500.

I think I had one of those. Maybe the one that fell on the floor.

Back then, HPs were built like tanks and were easy to work on.

They are hardy little things.
Joe




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Aug wrote --

My HP C2025dn weighs in at about 55lbs. It is placed under a
counter near the floor (the paper rolls out the top - so that
is perfect).

My current one has paper in a slide out drawer and comes out on the top.
This way I can put more paper in the drawer then the old load from the
top in back.
Took me a few times to learn how to load the paper. I use the back of
junk mail a lot to print something out. So any printed surface is face up since its printed on the "back side" of the paper.

wearing my usual back jeans and dark shirts - and coming out
from under the counter I would be covered in dust from the
surrounding area.

If I scan several items at a time I have to move the printer off the bookcase by the desk to a chair, otherwise it back and forth from the pc to the printer for each scan. This way I just turn in the chair back and forth.
I don't think its that heavy. Around 20 some pounds I guess.
Joe

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