[Leica] HP8450.Damn your hides.

[bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)]

If you find a source for cart refills, Chris, please tell the rest of
us. I don't know of one, and would certainly like to cut down on the
cost of constantly replacing those suckers. BUT - I'd be concerned about
the question of whether the ink formulation is really identical, or
whether it's just the color that's the same. Because I assume that if
the formulation isn't identical, there's no way to know what's going to
happen in terms of image fade and color shift.

B. D.

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Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 8:52 PM
To: lug@leica-users.org
Subject: [Leica] HP8450.Damn your hides. 


After all the talk about superb b&w prints  from the HP7960, I, an 
impressionable sort, was struck helpless this weekend  when OfficeMax
advertised the 
7960's successor, the 8450, for $249, less a $20  instant price cut.
Shifty 
retailers that they are, they'd already made sure my  desk was littered
with a 
discount card for an additional $10 off. Plus  they're going to send me
a $30 gift 
card. In my simple, easily rationalized  world, that's $60 OFF! Or $189,
if 
my old math doesn't fail me.  

Helpless, I was.

And right, you were. Excellent b&w prints.  This printer's b&w output,
alone, 
could be enough to make me  starting liking HP, again, after
perpetrating the 
LaserJet 3100 on the  world.

As was also mentioned, it is an ink hog. Is there a source for  refills,

especially of the HP100 Gray cartridge?

-Chris  Lawson

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