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| Thread ID: 70465 | 2006-07-04 10:25:00 | What do you guys think of this printer? | Renmoo (66) | Press F1 |
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| 468496 | 2006-07-05 01:14:00 | If you want long term reliability, go for an HP. Canon = built-in obsolescence |
Greg (193) | ||
| 468497 | 2006-07-05 02:01:00 | If you want long term reliability, go for an HP. Canon = built-in obsolescence That's really funny. Wasn't the core of the reliable HP laserprinter made by Canon? |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 468498 | 2006-07-05 03:45:00 | I have a Ip4200 Canon. Strange thing,I have it set on grey scale,but it tells me I have run out of colour,bit of a mystery that. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 468499 | 2006-07-05 04:03:00 | Greyscale does not use black usually as black is either on or off, so no "grey". Greyscale is achieved by using mixed colours only. So I see no mystery. As to Canon making the HP laser engine, Canon make most or many of them I believe for many brands. However given my past issues with Canon inkjets, while their product is quite good, their product support has failed for me. A high end ($3,500) large format inkjet had to be scrapped a few years ago when we moved to a 32 bit OS, they simply decided not to release a new driver for it. It was barely a year old. We were so underwhelmed by the Canon response that we simply never bought any more of their product, it still affects the way I perceive them. All the HP printers just kept going, new drivers were issued as required. Canon missed out on a $200,000 upgrade of photocopiers etc within that company and are still excluded on the basis of such shoddy support. I have 4 printers here, all HP and I have no regrets. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 468500 | 2006-07-05 04:31:00 | Why grey requires 3 colours and black I don't know.It certatainly uses black with grey scale as I have just replaced that cartridge. Most of my printing are articles,so all I mostly require is fast grey print. But I wont cut off my nose to spite my face if Canon wont, stop using colour. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 468501 | 2006-07-05 05:09:00 | Black on its own can only print Black. Not Grey. How can it print anything but Black? It has to "mix" with something to get Grey Depending on the printer it may or may not also use the Black cartridge, plus a mix of colours to dilute it to Grey. So it does mix, (with Colour) to get Grey. Even though I might be colour-blind, the basic concept of getting Grey from Black only escapes my logic. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 468502 | 2006-07-05 05:26:00 | Black on its own can only print Black. Not Grey. How can it print anything but Black? It has to "mix" with something to get Grey Depending on the printer it may or may not also use the Black cartridge, plus a mix of colours to dilute it to Grey. So it does mix, (with Colour) to get Grey. Even though I might be colour-blind, the basic concept of getting Grey from Black only escapes my logic. As far as I can see,there isn't a black option. My thinking was,use less black on white= grey. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 468503 | 2006-07-05 06:02:00 | Well........why does he? Is it having problems? Whats it too old for? If you need a new one, fine, if its not doing what a newer would, fine, but changing it just because? I did that once, my printer was 7 years old and started to play up. So I bought a new one. I hated it, its printing was fine but it went through ink like toilet paper. SO I sold it and bought another (working) old one which gives me 840 pages per cartridge. Cartridges cost $19.99. I don't care about other features or even quality particularly so it suits my needs. Oops, sorry for not clarifying my query. Whenever a document is printed, there are always myriads of horizontal lines right from the top until the end of it. This issue was normally easily solved by cleaning the printer head. However, that technique doesn't seem to work lately. I have tried cleaning the interior of the printer using some wet cloth, but that doesn't work either. The printer has been used for 3 years ++. Cheers :) |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 468504 | 2006-07-05 08:21:00 | Whenever a document is printed, there are always myriads of horizontal lines right from the top until the end of it. Ah. Normally requires a new print head. If it has replacable ones. Well, whatever printer you go for, one thing I always check on - how many pages you get out of a cartridge. Some of the new ones are shocking, only 200 or so. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 468505 | 2006-07-05 08:39:00 | As far as I can see,there isn't a black option. My thinking was,use less black on white= grey. "Less black" = pale black? I find such "pale black" difficult to visualize also .... Just buy more colour cartridges Cicero. Get that gorse out of your pockets... |
godfather (25) | ||
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