Comments on: Increase Your Printer’s Lifespan http://www.pcmech.com/article/increase-your-printers-lifespan/ Helping Normal People Get Their Geek On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:29:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jakeeshttp://www.pcmech.com/article/increase-your-printers-lifespan/comment-page-1/#comment-3379 jakees Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:24:54 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/article/increase-your-printers-lifespan/#comment-3379 Older inkjet printers were made a lot better than todays. If you buy the manufacuters cartridges, you're spending almost as much as the printer costs. Nothing wrong with third party cartridges, been using them for 15 years now. Older inkjet printers were made a lot better than todays. If you buy the manufacuters cartridges, you’re spending almost as much as the printer costs. Nothing wrong with third party cartridges, been using them for 15 years now.

]]> By: PricklySpongehttp://www.pcmech.com/article/increase-your-printers-lifespan/comment-page-1/#comment-3314 PricklySponge Mon, 05 Nov 2007 05:45:15 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/article/increase-your-printers-lifespan/#comment-3314 I dont do any of these things and have had the same HP Laserjet 4P for thirteen years.It's an amazing printer I dont do any of these things and have had the same HP Laserjet 4P for thirteen years.

It’s an amazing printer

]]> By: Tyler Thompsonhttp://www.pcmech.com/article/increase-your-printers-lifespan/comment-page-1/#comment-3259 Tyler Thompson Sun, 04 Nov 2007 02:55:35 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/article/increase-your-printers-lifespan/#comment-3259 HP inkjets are not what they used to be. Anything HP touched in the inkjet division in the last two years has been crap, in my opinion. I have had over 8 of them die on customers. Same goes for Lexmark.Laserjets are a completely different story, however, as HP makes top notch machines there.About the only inkjet I recommend anymore are the Cannon Pixma series - and I have had FANTASTIC luck with them.Tyler Thompson PCM Editor-in-Chief HP inkjets are not what they used to be. Anything HP touched in the inkjet division in the last two years has been crap, in my opinion. I have had over 8 of them die on customers. Same goes for Lexmark.

Laserjets are a completely different story, however, as HP makes top notch machines there.

About the only inkjet I recommend anymore are the Cannon Pixma series – and I have had FANTASTIC luck with them.

Tyler Thompson
PCM Editor-in-Chief

]]> By: Radar Detectorshttp://www.pcmech.com/article/increase-your-printers-lifespan/comment-page-1/#comment-3257 Radar Detectors Sun, 04 Nov 2007 02:18:54 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/article/increase-your-printers-lifespan/#comment-3257 My machine gets the crap beat out of it, maybe thats why any printer I ever get lasts about a year. I also shut it down improperly all the time. This is helpful, thanks My machine gets the crap beat out of it, maybe thats why any printer I ever get lasts about a year. I also shut it down improperly all the time. This is helpful, thanks

]]> By: Dennyhttp://www.pcmech.com/article/increase-your-printers-lifespan/comment-page-1/#comment-3254 Denny Sun, 04 Nov 2007 02:02:05 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/article/increase-your-printers-lifespan/#comment-3254 You mean that you always take your car back to the vechicle manufactor for repair and replacement parts? Thats just silly and the most costly thing that you could do. You mean that you always take your car back to the vechicle manufactor for repair and replacement parts? Thats just silly and the most costly thing that you could do.

]]> By: Zahidhttp://www.pcmech.com/article/increase-your-printers-lifespan/comment-page-1/#comment-3250 Zahid Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:56:21 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/article/increase-your-printers-lifespan/#comment-3250 I agree with you, Luis... old is indeed gold! Though the normal life span is 3-4 years, you could go on for eight years and counting because of also the way you have used it. Look at the way people treat a printer in offices... Seen the film, Office Space? It epitomises how a printer is treated when the paper gets stuck! And this is a perennial problem when too many people in the office print on the same printer simultaneously... at the end, everyone has a frayed temper and the printer gets blamed for it, even though it's just a victim of a printer jam! I agree with you, Luis… old is indeed gold! Though the normal life span is 3-4 years, you could go on for eight years and counting because of also the way you have used it. Look at the way people treat a printer in offices… Seen the film, Office Space? It epitomises how a printer is treated when the paper gets stuck! And this is a perennial problem when too many people in the office print on the same printer simultaneously… at the end, everyone has a frayed temper and the printer gets blamed for it, even though it’s just a victim of a printer jam!

]]> By: Luis R.http://www.pcmech.com/article/increase-your-printers-lifespan/comment-page-1/#comment-3245 Luis R. Sat, 03 Nov 2007 16:21:42 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/article/increase-your-printers-lifespan/#comment-3245 A lot behind a printer's life is in its design in my opinion. I have an 8-year old HP ink jet printer that still prints like day one. It is a very sturdy machine that rarely jams. I am a light user printing a few pages per week and the cartridges usually last more than a year. The color cartridge is nearing two years now!!! But this is mostly due to the huge size of the cartridges. Never had a dry cartridge but then again, the design has much to do with it because the printer caps the cartridges when they go back to the side when not printing. I know a few people who have the same printer or printers from the same family just as old as mine and still work. A lot behind a printer’s life is in its design in my opinion. I have an 8-year old HP ink jet printer that still prints like day one. It is a very sturdy machine that rarely jams. I am a light user printing a few pages per week and the cartridges usually last more than a year. The color cartridge is nearing two years now!!! But this is mostly due to the huge size of the cartridges. Never had a dry cartridge but then again, the design has much to do with it because the printer caps the cartridges when they go back to the side when not printing. I know a few people who have the same printer or printers from the same family just as old as mine and still work.

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