From: "Robert Comer" 

> That's a shame really.

That's for sure!!  They used to make a lot of good products, printers,
being one, but their best was the calculators.  I still love my 28S.

--
Bob Comer


"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
message news:45768e6d$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> That's a shame really.
>
>
> Antti Kurenniemi
>
> "mike"  wrote in message
> news:g6vbn2hhamepj41f4f0ql6tkc9pum6f0tv{at}4ax.com...
>>
>> The HP nowadays is related to the HP we used to know only in the
>> similarity of the name.
>>
>> /m
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 23:09:54 +0200, "Antti Kurenniemi"
>>  wrote:
>>
>>>Is this for real? Seems really fucked up, even for a marketoid
>>>thinking...
>>>
>>>
>>>Antti Kurenniemi
>>>
>>>"Rich Gauszka" 
wrote in message
>>>news:4575ce1d$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>> First HP timebombs the print tanks now, not satisfied, 
they target the
>>>> printheads.  Hopefully their printer sales will timebomb
>>>>
>>>>
http://weblog.infoworld.com/gripeline/archives/2006/12/hps_timebombed.html
?source=NLC-GRIPE2006-12-05
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It's not that much of a surprise anymore to discover printer
>>>> manufacturers
>>>> embedding chips in their ink cartridges to force customers
to buy more
>>>> consumables. But one reader feels that HP went a little
too far when it
>>>> included an automatic expiration date in the printheads as
well in one
>>>> of
>>>> its high-end ink jet models.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "I have an HP DesignJet 10PS that I paid a
considerable sum of money
>>>> for,"
>>>> the reader wrote. "This printer is used for the
printing of color
>>>> proofs
>>>> for a printing firm and is driven by a specialized RIP driver. What
>>>> makes
>>>> me mad as hell is that the printheads are supposed to have a life of
>>>> 25,000 prints. What they don't tell you when you buy the printer is
>>>> that
>>>> within a few days of a date stamped on the printheads, the
printheads
>>>> will
>>>> die. The same seems to apply for the ink tanks."
>>>>
>>>> ..
>>>>
>>>> As the reader uses the printer only for occasional jobs, the cost of
>>>> having to replace printheads and ink cartridges every two years is
>>>> particularly grating. "The printer gets light use, so
I figure that it
>>>> costs me about $20.00 per print when I factor in the time
bomb in the
>>>> printheads. And I can't buy spares for fear they will time
out before
>>>> installation. Why can't they sell a printer that works until things
>>>> wear
>>>> out instead of putting a time bomb chip in the parts? What ever
>>>> happened
>>>> to the leader in printing solutions? RIP HP, I will never
buy from you
>>>> again, nor will I let a client make the mistake of buying an HP
>>>> printer."
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>
>

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