tony@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Tony Holden) (12/13/89)
We're looking at purchasing a bunch of HP2000 printers. Anyone have stories to tell? Thanks in advance. -- Tony Holden "My wife likes it tony@attctc.dallas.tx.us long and straight" heard at the golf course.
adams@swbatl.swbt.com (745) (12/29/89)
In article <8912262206.AA05591@crayola.cs.UMD.EDU> tony@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Tony Holden) writes: >We're looking at purchasing a bunch of HP2000 printers. Great printers. Fast, lot's of memory and work with all the laserjet stuff. Only problem is with one third party product that downloads it's own fonts. Landscape fonts don't work, a problem the vendor says also exists with lj clones. Nice for big jobs, with that 2' paper tray. Haven't really found a use for one of the little trays, but we use one for different colored banner pages. Wish we'd gotten the double sided printing option. I'm curious about current pricing on the monsters though. What did you guys find to compare against this printer? We replaced an old Xerox 5700 with it. -- uunet!swbatl!adams or adams@swbatl.swbt.com | Tom Adams: 314-235-7459 BOOKS WANTED: pre-1930 radio, electrical & scientific topics.
blarson@DIANNE.USC.EDU (bob larson) (01/02/90)
We couldn't get them to work properly with a 50 foot cable (dataproducts parrellel) but they work fine with a 30 foot one. (Apperently, either Prime or HP is violating some timing spec. I suspect both are.) As with any other printer, it does wear out, and has minor quirks. (One side faded at low humidity.) Don't forget to include the drum that needs replaced every million pages in figuring print costs. They arn't high duty cycle printers, plan on less than 100,000 pages/month. At least one of the servicemen complained about our using 3-hole paper, but a printer that can't handle it doens't belong in our computer room. -- Bob Larson blarson@dianne.usc.edu usc!dianne!blarson --** To join Prime computer mailing list **--- info-prime-request@ais1.usc.edu usc!ais1!info-prime-request