On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 02:29:02 +0000, Kennedy McEwen
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[email protected]> vaguely proposed a theory
.......and in reply I say!:
Stop being so high and mighty and show me in the manual where it
details the troubles people are getting with their printers, or that
if you clog the heads, the printer is toast, or that if the ink runs
out in one colour you cannot print, or refill the colour.
My last printer (an HP) was cheaper to run and more idiot proof than
this one. It also cost a lot more. It did have some problems, beyond
my knowledge or control, that made me try Epson. So far I have not
been on a winner as far as I can tell.
Even then, show me a place that will let me read the manual in the
first place, before I buy the printer.
The manufacturers' requirements in these cases seem largely to have a
printer that lasts one set of cartridges, unless you are very lucky,
or bugger the first one, then learn all the tricks, then buy the same
model and get it right, and get lucky again.
Comparing cars with printers is dangerous, for various reasons:
- One is that cars are much more complex, and operate in a far wider
and more agressive environment, than most printers. They also have
tiny tolerances, and these days have tiny nozzles and such. But they
keep going in the vast majority of cases, under often terrible
conditions.
- Another is that I, and many, many other people, have at some time or
another grossly abused motor vehicles and other machinery, and it has
gone on going with the absolute minimum of maintenance. These printers
are not going _near_ that. Even with such foul treatment, most
failures have coime later rather than sooner. With printers, this is
not so.
- any motor vehicle is a major investment, upon which I depend for my
convenience, my work, and often ny life. I expect it to need some
work. I place a printer about on a par with my vacuum cleaner as far
as importance in my life. That is the level of care it should get, and
the level of failure it should have (that is, easily repairable) if I
neglect to clean the filter or change the bag. If the maintenace and
care of my car, in time or money, started to get to a point where it
vastly overshadowed the usefulenss or price of the vehicle, I would be
pissed off.
- the difference in cost per kilometre between good oil and heating
oil........oh sorry, you mean _running_ it on heating oil. I have not
done the equivalent of that to my printer. I have run it on ink sold
as being suitable for the purpose. It was cheaper, but so it damned
well should be, at the cost of original stuff.
- in reply I say that if the first tank of petrol cost half as much
as the car, so that fueling the car overran the capital and other
costs in the first few trips, then people would be asking about
heating oil mods, believe me!
So leave SUVs out of it. It is not a parallel in any useful way.
I have done nothing _to_ this printer to make it stop working, except
apparently to not get it _exactly_ right at all times. It should be
tougher than that.
You can run any procedure you like with any piece of equipment you own,
but if it doesn't comply with the manufacturers requirements then,
sooner or later, it will leave you high and dry. Try filling your SUV
with cheap heating oil - or just ignore the service requirements - and
see where it leaves you. No matter how idiot proof they make the
printers, there's always a better idiot out there!
These printers are far from idiot proof.
I resent the implication that I am an idiot. It's the sort of thing
jerks say on these groups.
**************************************************** sorry
remove ns from my header address to reply via email
I was frightened by the idea of a conspiracy that was
causing it all.
But then I was terrified that maybe there was no plan,
really. Is this unpleasant mess all a mistake?
