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  • sent back the TS705a and bought a TS6350a instead

    From Sara Merriman@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jun 18 15:21:57 2024
    So I spent £120 instead of £50, but it does do everything I wanted. Hurrah! --
    ... most SF writers are small blokes; they spent a lot of time grubbing around on the floor for old SF mags, not stretching up to the top shelf for pornography ... As an aside Douglas Adams is quite tall ...
    -- Terry Pratchett, Warwick Uni (10.11.94)

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  • From Sara Merriman@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jun 18 18:14:48 2024
    On 18 Jun 2024 at 17:20:36 BST, "David Kennedy" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 18/06/2024 16:21, Sara Merriman wrote:
    So I spent £120 instead of £50, but it does do everything I wanted. Hurrah!

    Looks good, quite compact too - compared with the monster brother I'm using - and it seems to do everything you need.

    The old one could print on CDs/DVDs, but I don't need that anymore so on the whole I'm pretty happy.
    --
    "People don't buy Microsoft for quality, they buy it for compatibility
    with what Bob in accounting bought last year. Trace it back - they buy Microsoft because the IBM Selectric didn't suck much" - P Seebach, afc

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  • From mechanic@21:1/5 to Sara Merriman on Wed Jun 19 11:45:04 2024
    On Tue, 18 Jun 2024 18:14:48 GMT, Sara Merriman wrote:

    On 18 Jun 2024 at 17:20:36 BST, "David Kennedy" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 18/06/2024 16:21, Sara Merriman wrote:
    So I spent �120 instead of �50, but it does do everything I wanted. Hurrah! >>>
    Looks good, quite compact too - compared with the monster brother I'm using -
    and it seems to do everything you need.

    The old one could print on CDs/DVDs, but I don't need that anymore so on the whole I'm pretty happy.

    Interesting saga, thanks for reporting that, we loose track of these
    real-world experiences these days.

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  • From Andy H@21:1/5 to Sara Merriman on Thu Jun 20 19:55:05 2024
    Sara Merriman <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 18 Jun 2024 at 17:20:36 BST, "David Kennedy" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 18/06/2024 16:21, Sara Merriman wrote:
    So I spent £120 instead of £50, but it does do everything I wanted. Hurrah!

    Looks good, quite compact too - compared with the monster brother I'm using -
    and it seems to do everything you need.

    The old one could print on CDs/DVDs, but I don't need that anymore so on the whole I'm pretty happy.

    I was going to suggest the HP Envy, as I’ve been happy with the 6430 I have here. It’s never had a blocked head in 4 years, and is a lightly used machine.

    It seems to tick all the boxes apart from the four cartridge criteria. It prints everything quite well (including full duplex), scans well, and is
    quite compact.

    However, I was using it with the Instant Ink subscription, which made the
    two cartridge system a bit more palatable when I got the thing. It worked
    out quite cheap, especially if I printed some photos.

    The trouble is that HP have hiked the subscription prices heavily (like
    £1.99 to £2.99, and now £3.99 for 50 pages/mth). I’m now surviving on the 10 page £1.49 plan, but intend to switch to third party carts once these
    get low enough to ditch it. It doesn’t seem like it’s expensive, but it does now start to become close to not being cheaper than buying cartridges outright, and is much more expensive than third party ones. And as they
    include print heads in the carts, it’s not likely to knacker the printer.

    Of course that’s not to say HP wouldn’t block it from working with them, I know they get away with that in some countries.

    Anyway, good luck with your search.

    --
    Andy H

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