[Shop-talk] Printers (was MIG welder term)

[Mike Frerichs]

Last place I worked at we had a couple of HP9000's (largest office printer
HP made at the time) on which we were running 15,000 - 20,000 pages per day
EACH.  As Harold said, we kept a few maintenance kits on the shelf as each
printer needed at least one kit per month.  Occasionally something would
break and we'd have to call an HP repairman.  They'd just shake their head
in amazement at the page count.  I believe the warranty was something like 3
years or one million pages, whichever came first.  Our printers hit a
million pages after about 12 weeks.

Mike Frerichs

> -----Original Message-----
> Usually the specs don't say how long the printer will last.  The usually
> say how many pages between roller replacement and the such.  I am sure
> for most of the info, you need to look pretty hard at the specs in the
> box.  Maybe they will have them online.  I believe that HP does a pretty
> good job of this.  At least on their business level printers.
> 
> I have a client that runs some much paper and has so many printers of
> the same type, they just have the replacement kits waiting on a shelf.
> Usually about once a month one of them comes up for replacement.
> 
> Those replacement kits are pretty much like brakes.  You replace the
> stuff that usually wears out.
> 
> Harold