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Subject: [Leica] PAW 32 - Possibly not one for Ted ;-)
From: bd at bdcolenphoto.com (B. D. Colen)
Date: Sat Sep 9 18:05:25 2006

That's not the case with this printer, Jayanand - it has built-in print
heads, like an Epson, but they are replaceable. And apparently they are
programmed to somehow reconfigure themselves to work around clogs up to a
certain point.


On 9/9/06 9:01 PM, "Jayanand Govindaraj" <jgovindaraj@eth.net> wrote:

> As far as I know, all HP printers have heads built into the cartridges.
> All you need to replace heads is to change cartridges. I have had an
> Epson 2400 for a few months with no problems, though - and its a superb
> printer, both colour and b&w. With the choice available for Epsons, both
> in terms of ink and paper, I think it will take some effort for another
> manufacturer to dislodge them from the top.
> Cheers,
> Jayanand Govindaraj
> Chennai, India
> 
> B. D. Colen wrote:
> 
>> One of the biggest advantages this printer will have - assuming, Don, that
>> it proves not to be vaporware - is that it has user-replaceable heads.
>> 
>> 
>> On 9/9/06 12:27 PM, "Jeff Moore" <jbm@jbm.org> wrote:
>> 
>>  
>> 
>>> 2006-09-08-21:47:11 B. D. Colen:
>>>    
>>> 
>>>> Me, I'm waiting for the HP B9180, which previews suggest will blow the 
>>>> 2400
>>>> away....Due any day now...
>>>>      
>>>> 
>>> I've been anxiously waiting lo these several months for that thing to
>>> come out ever since my girlfriend took the fancy fine-art digital
>>> printing course, and they had 2400s to work with.  The 2400 made
>>> absolutely beautiful prints when it consented to work, but it didn't
>>> really like to feed the thick cotton-rag papers so beloved of the fine
>>> printing set, and there were apparently a few other annoying
>>> peculiarities.  Their teacher, the apparently-well-known Stephen
>>> Johnson, said the printer he really loved these days was the pre-release
>>> HP B9180 which he'd been hooked up with for testing and comment.
>>> 
>>> (Up with which he'd been hooked?)
>>> 
>>> Watching this page
>>> 
>>>  
>>> http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF05a/18972-236251-64340-15100-64340
>>> -1
>>> 143049.html
>>> 
>>> I've seen it go from saying, "Coming soon!" to announcing a retail price
>>> recently...  it should be showing up at vendors Real Soon Now.
>>> 
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