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From: Amy Moore on 5 Dec 2008 16:42 "IntergalacticExpandingPanda" <intergalacticexpandingpanda(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:3c509f51-7a2b-449d-b1ad-22914d18cf66(a)d42g2000prb.googlegroups.com... > On Nov 21, 8:29 am, " Amy Moore" <no.s...(a)microsoft.com> wrote: > > > Unless you are willing to service the printer, which might include > buying an extended warranty from Canon, paying for service by someone > who has a clue about canons, replacement is recommended. > Well, thank you for all your suggestions. We found most of the printers in each office floors are not used frequently at all. In typical case, these color printers are used, say two or three times a month to print color charts for meetings. Most printing are black/white re-directed to the main laser printers. For now, we just remove the 3e black cartridges. Yes, its is drying out. Any suggestion for our office staff to deal with this? Thank you.
From: IntergalacticExpandingPanda on 5 Dec 2008 18:16 On Dec 5, 1:42 pm, " Amy Moore" <no.s...(a)microsoft.com> wrote: > Well, thank you for all your suggestions. > We found most of the printers in each office floors are not used frequently > at all. > In typical case, these color printers are used, say two or three times a > month to print color charts for meetings. Most printing are black/white > re-directed to the main laser printers. For now, we just remove the 3e black > cartridges. Yes, its is drying out. Any suggestion for our office staff to > deal with this? > Thank you. Removing the 3e black is the wrong thing to do. A cartridge is like $12-$15. A printhead is $50 to $80. The HIGHEST waste you should experience is 1 cartridge per year, actually 1/2 cartridge IIRC. Even taking color into account, that's equal to 1/2 a black ($6-$7) and 2 colors ($20-$26). This is still less than the value of a print head. That's powering up the printer once every two weeks, and not using it at all in between. Using it more, or less, and the printer will not waste as much ink, or rather it will waste a similar amount less often. [how much are you printing] (1) Turn off the printer. (2) Press and hold the RESUME button, then press and hold the POWER button. (3) Release the RESUME button, Next press and release the RESUME button two(2) more times in succession. Note: you are still holding the POWER button). The printer's carriage will "reset" or move momentarily. If the above was properly performed the printer will enter the "Service Mode". (4) Press the RESUME button 1 time, then press power. The printer will spew out a diagnostic page siting how many pages the unit has printed on various papers. (5) Press POWER to resume normal operation. This will give you an accounting of how many pages printed on each type of paper. It's a tad cryptic though. You might consider a service manual to decipher it, but IIRC it does say page count all followed by a number of to letter acronyms=#### where each means something, like HR for high resolution paper, GP for glossy paper, that sort of thing. ---------- If the printers are not used frequently, I would have fewer printers. [mp700] http://www.buy.com/prod/canon-pixma-mx700-office-all-in-one-printer-canon-pixma-mx700/q/loc/101/205557539.html http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8470086&type=product&id=1184768698871&&DCMP=KNC-TLC&ref=25&loc=PGR&srccode=cii_5784816&cpncode=17-24201428-2 This is their network model. It's not my favorite as it has the same resolution as the i860, but you can buy it for about $130. [mp620] To be honest, I'm avoiding this model because they shunk the size of their cartridges. IIRC the big black is down to 19ml rather than 25-26ml. There is a cost per page increase of at least .5c/page jumping up to the next cartridge, and another .5c/page to this model. But it's a $100 printer that has network on board, and wifi. I don't know the button presses to get the printer to print out it's history. There are obviously other choices, for the office environment it's not unreasonable to go with a HP businessjet. These guys take bigger cartridges and support network.
From: IntergalacticExpandingPanda on 7 Dec 2008 18:54 Correction The mx700 is now $100 from Amazon.com This falls into the category of if you are not printing with your printers, it makes sense to have fewer printers. A given set of cartridges for an i860 is $55-$60 The mx700 only takes 4 tanks. It doesn't include the extra dye black useful for duplex printing and photos. Otherwise it's similar in resolution to the i860. Text quality would be the same. Taking two to three units out of service (zip locking the heads with a moist towel and head cap) would likely save a set of cartridges per year depending on how much you print.
From: measekite on 7 Dec 2008 19:02
On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:54:30 -0800, IntergalacticExpandingPanda wrote: > Correction > > The mx700 is now $100 from Amazon.com > > This falls into the category of if you are not printing with your > printers, it makes sense to have fewer printers. A given set of > cartridges for an i860 is $55-$60 > > The mx700 only takes 4 tanks. It doesn't include the extra dye black > useful for duplex printing and photos. Otherwise it's similar in > resolution to the i860. Text quality would be the same. > > Taking two to three units out of service (zip locking the heads with a > moist towel and head cap) would likely save a set of cartridges per > year depending on how much you print. Waste of time and space |