Buying secondhand - how old?

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Anyone know how to establish the age/date of manufacture of an inkjet
printer?

I've tried the serial number of a printer I own., in google, but that
doesn't return any info
 
PiePlanter said:
Anyone know how to establish the age/date of manufacture of an inkjet
printer?

I've tried the serial number of a printer I own., in google, but that
doesn't return any info
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Just a few suggestions: If you look on the inside of a plastic panel
of many printers you find a date stamp on the moulding, sometimes
looking like a clockface.
Also, most have an FCC number, try that.
Finally, few inkjets are on the market for more than a year unchanged
anyway.
 
I think this is a tough one to track down. I can't think of any website
that would specifically indicate the date of a printer's introduction,
in a list or a lookup table.

The only thing I could suggest is that if you do a Google search on a
review of the product such as:

"Epson 825" +review

you might be able to find some magazine or personal reviews which
usually indicate the date the review was written, which will give you a
ballpark date.

Other than that, you might try to ask on a Usenet list such as this one,
or others which are specific to the brand of printer.

Art
 
Your suggestion is a good one for a person who already has access to the
printer, but often a person is looking through something like ebay, or
in some ads, and just wants to have some idea how old the printer might be.

If the person has access to the printer and better yet, the manual, it
often has a copyright notice on it...

Which gives me another idea. If you can find the manual on line (as a
..pdf file, for instance) you may find a copyright date on it.

Art
 
Arthur Entlich said:
I think this is a tough one to track down. I can't think of any website
that would specifically indicate the date of a printer's introduction,
in a list or a lookup table.

The only thing I could suggest is that if you do a Google search on a
review of the product such as:
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Do an "Advanced" groups.google.com search, group:
comp.periphs.printers, the printer name (as "exact phrase") then set
an upper limit for a date, select "sort by date". Just keep winding
the date back till you get a handful of results, that will be the time
the printer came on the market.
 
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