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GOD why are hewlett packard printers such pieces of crap....

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yobarman

Lifer
This stupid deskjet 932c is such a piece of crap... it takes forever to load up a documet, half the time only prints jibberish on the paper, the other half it's either out of ink (happens everytime i use it) and when it grabs paper it take in about 10 sheets causing a jam...

I feel like pulling an "Office Space" on this peice of sh*T!!!

So, should i go with laser from now on? or are there actually good reliable deskjets out there?
 
My 960C is good. And our 6 year old 870Cse is still working good except the Win2KPro drivers suck monkey balls.
 
I hate printers in general. Good for printing on regular paper, but throw labels and envelopes in the mix and you have your worst nightmares come true.
 
My 842C works pretty well still. I occasoinally get the printer gibberish, maybe once a month or so, but I am not tossing it yet.

My parents are still using a canon that came with their Pentium 133!
 
I've had good success with them, from their 600 series, 800, 900, 5500, 7500 series printers, also my free D135 has been good. Paper jamming problem with the laserjet 1100, but the 1200 has been very reliable, as has the 4000, 5000 that i used to use at work. My main gripe with HP is their ink prices (and unlike canon they are harder to refill). Plus my main printer has chipped catridges that don't allow it.
 
I've had a 932C for over two years now, and it still works fine. Never tried envelopes on it, though.

The only complaint I have with Hewlett Packard printers in general is that they don't respond well to errors. The cancel document button will do all sorts of weird crap if you press it. The expensive drafting plotter we have at work is similarly fragile that way.

My processor usage also jumps to 100% when I print something out, which makes my computer near-unusable. That kind of sucks.
 
Their laser printers are top-notch. We push about 40,000 pages/week through our bank of 10 printers at the Fishbowl Computing Site here.
 
My HP660c is still printing just fine. A little cleaner on the rubber rollers from time to time, and run the HP cleaning strip and it's good to go for another year.
It only crunches envelopes when the paper rollers get dirty, otherwise, I say HP rox.
ymmv
 
Maybe I've just been lucky. The 550 I bought six years ago still works fine, and I have a two-year-old 812c that has never had a problem.

At work we have a HP laser that has done over 1 million pages and a total of one service call.
 
My 970 has been pretty good overall. But it has chewed a couple envelopes out of a few thousand. 🙁 My old 820 never did that.
 
You wouldn't happen to be using win98 would ya? I've got the same printer and with win98 I used to have all sorts of problems with it but now that I'm on win2k it works like a charm.
 
printers are retarded. there wasn't one in this house for years til i got my canon multipass... HP makes the WORST inkjets.. last one I had was definitely, for sure, the worst most useless piece of crap computer hardware i have ever owned.
 
Originally posted by: Cougar
You wouldn't happen to be using win98 would ya? I've got the same printer and with win98 I used to have all sorts of problems with it but now that I'm on win2k it works like a charm.
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I got windows XP, i think i'm going to reinstall with XP drivers to see if it fixes anything, but i think it's more of a hardware problem then software.

and how slow are parrellel cables?

 
Originally posted by: AlienCraft
My HP660c is still printing just fine. A little cleaner on the rubber rollers from time to time, and run the HP cleaning strip and it's good to go for another year.
It only crunches envelopes when the paper rollers get dirty, otherwise, I say HP rox.
ymmv
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whats the hp cleaning strip?
 
i have an 842C that has been rock solid despite being the sole printer for all my band's promo packages, which includes hundreds of full-quality full page photos, color bios, labels, buisness cards, etc, etc, as well as all my normal printing needs.

My family has an 855C that's about 8-10 years old, never had a single problem, used for heavy office, school, and home buisness use. I suppose it's probably grabbed two sheets at once a few times, but no major jams or gibberish or anything. It's been used with Windows 3.11, 98, ME, 2000, and XP.

They also have a HP laser printer/copier/fax that sees pretty heavy use, too. No problems whatsoever.

In short, we've had nothing but stellar performance from HP printing products. Now their computers are pieces of utter crap, topped only by Compaq for crappiness. But they make killer printers.
 
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