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Arthur Entlich wrote:
> > Do not listen to the repairman. You will ruin the printhead and the
> > printer will not longer function in the future in the way it was
> > designed to function. If all you want is a B/W text printer you
> will be
> > better off with an inexpensive laser. Be careful what you read in this
> > NG. There are many hawkers and tinkerer hobbyists whose advice are
> > suspect.
>
> Coming from you, this is one of the most outrageous and laughable
> statements I've heard in ages on this newsgroup, and that's saying
> something.
>
> Just what authority do you make such an outlandish comment from? Your
> authority seems to revolve around having owned one HP and one Canon
> printer, which you've had less than six months,
One Canon but 500 HP Printers.
> and which you have printed some number of 4 x 6" prints.
>
> The vast majority of your postings (the ones that aren't just
> offensive and immature insults and "dirty sexual" comments that even
> my wife doesn't hear from her elementary school age students) are
> often completely inaccurate. Further, your brand loyalty isn't based
> upon any facts, only your personal liking of a product you only
> recently bought.
I like my HP just like I like the Canon but for different reasons. For
pure business documents I like HP but for the best compromise of both
phot and business it is the Canon. If I sold my prints then I might
consider a printer that produces pigmented ink prints like the R1800.
Then the customer would pay for all of the ink guzzling.
Face it, the Epson is the Hummer of the printer industry.
>
> And as to your having somehow (in an earlier posting) equated your
> flag waving of Canon printers to mine of Epson, that is truly one of
> the most absurd comments I have EVER heard. Many of my postings in
> numerous newsgroups are very critical of Epson products, designs and
> corporate philosophy.
I am also critical of Canon's prices for replacement printheads and ink.
> If I make a positive statement about Epson you can be sure it was well
> considered and has voracity behind it, because I scrutinize anything
> they do with considerable analysis before considering backing it.
>
> I have no affiliation with Epson, I have never received any perk or
> SWAG or even discounted goods from them. And I have been on top of
> their products for 10 years now. They won't even acknowledge me,
> because that would involve their recognizing that inkjet printer heads
> clog, and attention beyond using the cleaning utility is required to
> fix it, something they would rather not have publicly considered.
> Lastly, I keep Epson printers running that I am sure Epson would like
> to see long dead and buried. After a year, Epson probably would be
> very happy to have their inkjet printers tossed into a garbage bin and
> a new one purchased. I find this business model offensive and
> unacceptable, in any product, and any inkjet printer company. It is
> way too much technology, materials and manufacturing and shipping to
> just be tossed away like it had no value and had a neutral approach on
> the environment, neither of which is true. I feel similarly about
> refilling, cartridges with chips, waste ink pads which consider having
> it user replaceable, etc.
>
> Just because you can generate dozens of emails a day in this
> newsgroups doesn't give their content any value at all. If you stuck
> to things you actually knew something about, and provided some learned
> comments from your experience of knowledge, that would have value
> here, and we wouldn't need to swim through so much sewerage to find
> the occasional trinket.
>
> Art
> measekite wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Tony wrote:
>>
>>> measekite <measekite@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> herbzee wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Is it possible to still print in black when color cartriges are
>>>>> used up on the Canon i960, if so, how?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Only if you want to ruin the print head.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Tony wrote:
>>> The printheads are actually seperate for each ink tank, sure it
>>> looks like a single head and it is a single head "module" but there
>>> are discreet heads (or sets of nozzles) for each colour including
>>> black. 6 heads in all.
>>> So measekites's answer is misleading. It is extremely unlikely that
>>> the black printhead will be damaged if the colour tanks run out, the
>>> colour heads will be however, eventually. It appears that this
>>> printer does not allow you to print with an empty tank, some newer
>>> HP's do allow that (remember that the head is replaced when you
>>> replace the ink tank in most but not all HP inkjets). However this
>>> is not the issue and does not address the original question. See
>>> Burt's excellent advice.
>>> Tony
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Do not listen to the repairman. You will ruin the printhead and the
>> printer will not longer function in the future in the way it was
>> designed to function. If all you want is a B/W text printer you will
>> be better off with an inexpensive laser. Be careful what you read in
>> this NG. There are many hawkers and tinkerer hobbyists whose advice
>> are suspect.
>
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