Office Printers

daztrouk

daztrouk

daztrouk

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Printers are driving me mad. At the moment we use HP and Samsung, and i'd say that at least 2 a day develop some kind of fault. Which office printers are you using? I'm not interested in the heavy duty stuff photo printers, just your normal mono laser office printers.
 
HP used to make the best but their new models are a bit flimsy.

HP LJ4 - 2200 were bulletproof. Need a new fuser @ 200k and a new pickup roller @ 100k but apart from that they go and go. Just a shame they don't make them anymore.
 
we have a large selection of 2100 2200 2300 2420 3005 for Mono. Unfortunately all the new printers we purchase are mainly colour 2600 3500 3550 3600 & 5500 each having a seperate colour and mono que - Out of that lot the 3600 give us the least trouble but tbh we dont have many problems at all, the main problem is the ever increasing supply for consumables.
 
Apart from our the amount of consumables we get through, we hardly have any problems with printers at work. It's fax machines we seem to have the problem with.
 
Lots of HP 4xxx out and about - generally reliable though have the odd problem with paper pickups on the ones that get worked very hard.
 
We contracted ours out to Canon and have three huge copiers, one is a colour machine, but we still have a HP 4000 going strong after 12 years :) but I agree, the newer HP's, especially the smaller ones are a bit flimsy.
 
We started using p2015n's recently but they have a common problem where they just die, one of the boards goes limp and the printer enver starts up properly, we've sent back about 10% so far!
 
The only true printers we have are personal ones for the likes of directors and HR and a plotter or two - everything else has been switched over to MFP devices from Canon. They are designed with huge duty cycles and seem to be doing the job very well.

Like most around here, I can recall the heady days of Laserjet 4's and especially 4000 - serious workhorses. Everything now seems to be flimsy by comparison.

I suppose HP wouldn't be in the printer business for very long if they had kept selling tough-as-old-boots 4000's - we would never need to upgrade!
 
sidethink said:
The only true printers we have are personal ones for the likes of directors and HR and a plotter or two - everything else has been switched over to MFP devices from Canon. They are designed with huge duty cycles and seem to be doing the job very well.

Like most around here, I can recall the heady days of Laserjet 4's and especially 4000 - serious workhorses. Everything now seems to be flimsy by comparison.

I suppose HP wouldn't be in the printer business for very long if they had kept selling tough-as-old-boots 4000's - we would never need to upgrade!
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Indeed - I've just checked a 4000TN at the site I'm on today. About 400,000 pages and it looks to date from March 1998.
 
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