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Re: Why does Jaime have Tech 2?
« Reply #60 on: 14 October 2006, 08:23:02 »
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I should add that I am surprised I have a Tech2 - its made by Hewlett Packard, another company that seemed to lose its way a bit around 4 or 5 yrs ago...
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Re: Why does Jaime have Tech 2?
« Reply #61 on: 14 October 2006, 08:27:21 »
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I should add that I am surprised I have a Tech2 - its made by Hewlett Packard, another company that seemed to lose its way a bit around 4 or 5 yrs ago...

Remeber the Laserjet III?
Excellent printer in its day.  LJ4 series excellent as well (and lighter!). LJ5 didn't really offer anything new, then the LJ4000 was released with awful firmware, not updatable  >:(

The DJs were good as well, but the last of the really reliable ones were 800 series. Also, the supplied software and drivers started to become more limited and flakey...
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Re: Why does Jaime have Tech 2?
« Reply #62 on: 14 October 2006, 17:49:25 »
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I should add that I am surprised I have a Tech2 - its made by Hewlett Packard, another company that seemed to lose its way a bit around 4 or 5 yrs ago...

Remeber the Laserjet III?
Excellent printer in its day.  LJ4 series excellent as well (and lighter!). LJ5 didn't really offer anything new, then the LJ4000 was released with awful firmware, not updatable  >:(

The DJs were good as well, but the last of the really reliable ones were 800 series. Also, the supplied software and drivers started to become more limited and flakey...

I remember the LJ's as Jaime says 3 was good, but i thought the 4 and 5 started to become flimsey....for the money they were....I started buying Kyocera printers.....good value i thought....and iirc a 3 year warranty
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Re: Why does Jaime have Tech 2?
« Reply #63 on: 14 October 2006, 20:09:25 »
A few of our customers are still using LJ3s - we are in our office with a colour OKI laser as well.

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Re: Why does Jaime have Tech 2?
« Reply #64 on: 17 October 2006, 22:03:28 »
Ahhhh HP LJ printers. Bloody hate them  >:( 4000 was an easy strip down to fix. You need a tennis court to dismantle the 5SI on. The LJ 3, 4, 5 were Ok but could be a nightmare. At least the 4000 series was engineer friendly (mostly).

Sorry, 6 years of fixing those things in tight cramped offices will drive you up the wall  :o :o
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Re: Why does Jaime have Tech 2?
« Reply #65 on: 17 October 2006, 22:27:05 »
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Ahhhh HP LJ printers. Bloody hate them  >:( 4000 was an easy strip down to fix. You need a tennis court to dismantle the 5SI on. The LJ 3, 4, 5 were Ok but could be a nightmare. At least the 4000 series was engineer friendly (mostly).

Sorry, 6 years of fixing those things in tight cramped offices will drive you up the wall  :o :o
Never had to strip my 4000, so can't comment on how easy to fix. I can confirm it doesn't cope well with its duplexer, and usually prints double sided pages in a random order  >:(

LJ4 was easy enough to service :)
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Re: Why does Jaime have Tech 2?
« Reply #66 on: 17 October 2006, 22:34:53 »
I got to the stage where I just removed the duplexers on the 4000's and told the customers to use the 5SI as every M&S has one. New Duplexers lasted about 6 months PITA.

Could do a 4000 with my eyes closed and tell you what the fault codes really mean (not hp's definition).

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Re: Why does Jaime have Tech 2?
« Reply #67 on: 17 October 2006, 22:39:32 »
or on my one - drum, drum, drum!

The duplexer works, but if you send a double sided print job to printer before printer is Online/Ready, it prints them in a random order  >:(
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Re: Why does Jaime have Tech 2?
« Reply #68 on: 17 October 2006, 22:51:06 »
I got P'd off with call outs to printers. Hardly any server or networking faults. Nothing but bloomin printers. They got Xerox Phaser 8200's in and used cheap wax. £1800 for me to replace the head, all so they could save a few quid on consumables, loved it  ;D

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