So the printer shit itself

[Scuba_Steve]

Eventually we forked out and now have 2 laser printers. Just getting toner cartridges on these are expensive. 129$ for a toner that lasts 1200 pages.

That's alright my toner's are $249 a piece & it's colour so theres 4 of them... But I do get "15,000 pages" from each one

you may want to look into this system, will save you a fortune in ink

http://www.melcotechnologies.co.nz/

Careful there, there's alot of mixed results with those & similar systems

I am older than you I bought a Star, Colour, Dot Matrix Printer back in the early/mid 80's, it took ribbons that went on and on and on. It was still working fine, I could even buy boxes of fan folded paper for nix, when the software got updated. Need I say more? It all went down hill from there

don't you just miss that sound...

the cga takes price paid into the equation, your Imac was top of the line and price range, so it is considered to last lounger than 12 months, a cheap printer would not be the same,

your right tho, the CGA takes the extended warranty scam out of the equation in NZ,

But beware too, alot of the problems with printers that cause them to crap out aren't covered by CGA. 8/10 times the problem is with something like the print heads which are considered a consumable & worth more than the bloody printer

[Brian d marge]

Do u fella STILL use printers , ,,damn

have a canon mp140 here, its been out of ink for a year or so.

If I do have to print something, usually an drawing, I send it to the local camera shop for a few shekels, still cheaper than buying ink.

Stephen

[G4L4XY]

Ahh the age old scenario, it's always cheaper to buy a brand new something in this case printers than fixing them.

I work in a call centre and am constantly saying just to buy a new machine. Their next question is, "will my old inks work in any other machine" Usually it's a "no" and they don't really like that.

Thats just the way society is now which is pretty poor really...I often imagine there must be and island of old printers and computers floating around somewhere haha

[Maha]

Ahh the age old scenario, it's always cheaper to buy a brand new something in this case printers than fixing them.

I work in a call centre and am constantly saying just to buy a new machine. Their next question is, "will my old inks work in any other machine" Usually it's a "no" and they don't really like that.

Thats just the way society is now which is pretty poor really...I often imagine there must be and island of old printers and computers floating around somewhere haha

Dick Smith may look at that...'However, this young fella offered me a full refund on the ink purchase to be used against the new printer'

[pritch]

I recently bought an HP wireless printer/scanner, it was about $100.00 IIRC. That's not much more than the cost of a black ink cartridge for the first HP I owned.

At that sort of pricing there's probably not much money for the quality control budget.

[Madness]

Said printer is around 12 months old but out of warranty.

Was it out of warranty then too?

[Mom]

Was it out of warranty then too?

Indeedy, one and the same, it just takes time to get shit sorted around here.

Rooted?

Yes, yes it was