-=> JASEN BETTS wrote to GREG MAYMAN <=-

 JB> Hi Greg.

 JB> 11-May-03 08:16:00, Greg Mayman wrote to Roy J. Tellason



 GM>> It could be very handy if you knew when they were throwing out
 GM>> the old printer and could be there to intercept it 

 RJT>> I suppose.  But with all I'm hearing about the prices of the ink
 RJT>> cartridges that may not be such a good deal after all.

 GM> An ink cartridge will probably be a lot cheaper than a new printer
 GM> for a long time, provided you don't cost the time to buy it and
 GM> install it.

 JB> but a printer takes longer to install....

With my Canon BJ-200 it was autodetected by Windows 98
and installed in about a second, well that and a few seconds
to hook up the cable.
Now having suffered an odd sort of hard drive
failure I'm stuck with a 340 meg drive and Win 3.1
which does require a minute or so to intall the single
diskette software.
In either case at some 5 - 7 minutes refilling a cartridge takes
far longer.
 
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