HP PSU 1200 printer dramas!

[kevin]

Anybody got one of those "all-in-one" printers ??

Last mine was low on black ink, so i got some today, but when i turned it on before I even changed cart's it just sit there with all the lights blinking.  Can't seem to find a solution on the HP site..  

Anybody ideas ?

[kevin]

Make that 1200 psc (all-in-one)

[kevin]

Looks like I have another door stop printer... yay .. :(

[kevin]

After trying everything to get my HP1210 working again.  Today i finally threw it out...  After all, it did last the sum total of 4 months. That must be a long time for printer surely :)..  They won't replace it, exchange it, or give a refund...

So...  I'M NEVER BUYING ANOTHER HP PRODUCT EVER again !!

Picked up a cheap all-in-one lexmark 1185.. Seems ok so far, print quality is about the same.  One annoying thing is that it would seem that you can't copy pages without the computer turned on..

But it should do for printing out lesson charts.    I must admit, i was seriously think about tossing XP and re-installing Win98se, just so I could use my old laser print (canon LP460)..  but of course they only supply win3.1 drivers.. Of course....

[kevin]

The Lexmark X1185 is just OK, there's certainly a few annoying issues with it.   Easily the biggest down side is the inability to use the device without the computer running !.   So no more impulse quick copies.

 In terms of quality, well i've mixed feeling about that too.  Black and white certainly seems cleaner than the HP.  There's some issues with banding and the alignment doesn't seem 100%, so you can see the pass edges around an image.  But that could just be bleeding into the paper though.  It's regular paper, nothing fancy.   For  Colour, I'm not sure what to think at the moment.  The quality ranges from just plain Awful to OK.

  The biggest down side is the speed.  To copy a Colour A4 sheet, can take 5 minutes or more (on a Duron800 system). to get an acceptable result.  Not brilliant mind you, acceptable. Nothing like the apparent test pages in the shop.   Some of the issues are  banding in the output, and a slight blurry haze on _some_ images, but _not) all. These seem to only occur when in the faster print modes though.  Given that to copy/scan, the computer drives this process, obviously it's the key delimiter to the print speed.  But it's certainly not a speed demon.  There's no way on earth it can print 8PPM in colour (from the box) even in the lowest settings. It struggles to do a page per minute in B/W..

 So,  I'm starting to wonder if anybody actually makes a decent printer.

[empty]

i was seriously think about tossing XP and re-installing Win98se, just so I could use my old laser print (canon LP460).. but of course they only supply win3.1 drivers.. Of course....

Is it the LBP 460? Hasn't WinXP default drivers for it?

[kevin]

dunno if there is or not now, their is a driver for a different version of this printer.  But it doesn't work with mine.

[empty]

Just had a look. On my system (XP home SP2) there's a "Canon C LBP 460 PS"

[kevin]

Nah that's the same one. Well the same name at least.

[empty]

That's a pity.

[kevin]

Great the Lexmark is just on 3 weeks old and now the left side of the paper feeder (the rollers) are creating all sort of jamming dramas. Been having a look see and there's nothing visiblely jammed/wrong about it..