Godfrey's procedures are similar to mine, with the difference that my colour printers have always been used for both document and photo printing, thus they have been well-exercised. With one (very) early exception, I've always used HP printers: currently have a one-year-old HP7770 A3 which does an excellent job, and an HP1100 B&W Laser which I bought in 2007, and is still going strong. I only ever use genuine HP inks and toner, which may help to explain their longevity.
John in Brisbane -----Original Message----- From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <godfreydigio...@me.com> Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2023 7:40 AM To: PDML <pdml@pdml.net> Subject: Re: epson 2400 > Am 22.03.23 um 20:39 schrieb Henk Terhell: > Never had any luck with printers and I estimate their life time on my > desk is around 3 years. Hmm. Back in the early '00s, I went through a couple of older Epson 13" dye ink printers … they both worked okay, but one of them died from the Piezography inkset I used clogging the heads permanently and the other was just starting to fail when the R2400 came out. I bought that (Oct 2005) and printed literally thousands of prints with it over the next 10-11 years. The P600 came out about then, and Ann needed a printer, cheap, so I gave her the R2400 and bought myself a P600. The R2400 died shortly after Ann got it (but I think she got the job she needed done with it) … I've always suspected that the shipment handling probably was the death factor. The P600 continues to work perfectly and has similarly produced a couple of thousand prints in the years I've had it. The keys to longevity with these devices is: 1- Keep them in use, don't let them sit and sit. I try to print at least two 8x10 photographs every other week at least, exercising all the print head nozzles 2- Don't run them with inks past the the ink's expiration date. Most of the problems I've had with any of my printers have been when I stuck an expired ink cartridge in because I needed to get something done and didn't have a fresh cartridge on hand. Because the cartridges are expensive and sometimes I'm not printing very much, I keep one spare set only on hand, ordering new replacements as they each become exhausted. I mark the cartridges so I know the expiration date of what's in the printer, and when I put a cartridge into service. I don't have much more to add to help David's problem, unfortunately. It's been too long since I used an R2400 to remember the details of its maintenance and error indicators at this point. G -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
