I can't believe how many ink jet cartridges we used to throw away especially around holidays. People printing nice color posters for everyone to look at. I sent out a house wide email to have everyone send their spent cartridges my way and I donated them to my granddaughter's elementary school. Gave them over 150 last year and they get something like 1 or 2 dollars a piece. Badly needed money for any school.
________________________________ From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 6:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Printer brand recommendations I used Brother faxes at my last company for standalone machines. The cheap ones and they stood up to a lot of punishment. They were also cheap enough to toss when they broke. Another note on Ink Jets is cost. The ink is so expensive that in the long run, a laser usually ends up being cheaper to run. From: Andrew Laya [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 9:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Printer brand recommendations I couldn't agree more, but... I had someone ask me about a number of all in ones they saw in the local BestBuy flyer and I noticed that Brother has a couple of all in one lasers. Maybe something like this would be better suited for the HR manager? Andrew. On Jan 30, 2008 12:10 AM, Martin Blackstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I still like HP cause it's easy to find local service and you can get parts and toner pretty much anywhere. As for AIO and Ink Jets, I think they are all crap in the workplace. People overuse them way too much. I would get a small personal laser jet and a cheap fax. Then when they break, you toss them and buy new ones. From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 8:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Printer brand recommendations Honestly, from what I have seen and I am no printer expert; there are no good printers anymore... On Jan 29, 2008 8:25 PM, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Howdy list, So, after some truly abysmal tech support experiences with HP this month, I've decided it's time to look at other printer brands. I've been buying HP's almost exclusively for over a decade, so I'm starting from scratch. There are so many brands that even a product field survey is non-trivial: Dell, Samsung, Canon, Epson, IBM/Lexmark, Xerox, Ricoh, Sharp, Toshiba, Panasonic, just to name a few. Recommendations? Opinions? Horror stories? Relatively small company, roughly 75 workstations. Mostly monochrome laser printers serving workgroups of 5-10 people. Typical volume might be 1K-3K pages/month. A couple color laser printers serving supersets of same. A few bigwigs have color inkjets in their office, because of course they're too important to have to walk out to the printer in the hall, but they also don't want to clutter up their fancy mahogany office furniture with a larger laser printer that might actually work. For example, the Director of HR. Since she works with personal/private stuff, she wanted one of those print/scan/copy/fax jobs (reasonable, I guess). The supposedly high-end HP inkjet we bought has been a disaster, which is why I'm here. Almost every printer we have is network-attached (easier to manage, they roam with the user profile if hardware is changed, enables the frequent requests to share printers). As I recall from some experience a few years ago, that seems to be a common failing with many brands. Even if they have a network jack, functionality/features are severely reduced over the network. One thing I really dislike is printers which require special software installation to the tune of hundreds of megabytes, a few startup programs, a dozen desktop icons, and their own support, update, and maintenance hassles. Windows has APIs for printing and scanning; if we stick to those, support and training are so much easier. Thoughts? -- Ben ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the intended recipient(s). If you are not the named recipient you should not read, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately via e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake; then, delete this e-mail from your system. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
