Why does Jaime have Tech 2?

[TheBoy]

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...

Ah yes, you know don't you  

[TheBoy]

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...

[Taxi_Driver]

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

[Martin_1962]

A few of our customers are still using LJ3s - we are in our office with a colour OKI laser as well.

[Doughboy]

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  

[TheBoy]

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  

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

[Doughboy]

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).

ROLLERS, ROLLERS, ROLLERS, ROLLERS, ROLLERS, ROLLERS maybe the Fuser  

[TheBoy]

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  

[Doughboy]

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  

Got accredited on Phasers (no Star Trek Jokes).