[UK-CONTEST] UK-Contest Digest, Vol 41, Issue 23

[Tom Wylie]

Thats for sure Peter.    I already have a laser printer but wanted just 
to tart up my QSL labels so I dodnt want to spend a lot on money on what 
is just a label printer.   My wife has a good colour printer attached to 
her computer which we use for photographs.   I just wanted another 
cheapy in the shack.      Having printed a couple of good pages, I 
thought I'd cracked it,
but its gond back to printing off label.........In about half an hour if 
you hear a loud AAAArrrrggghhhhh! and a smashing of glass, you will know 
I have chucked it through the window!


LOL

73 de tom
gm4fdm


Peter Hobbs wrote:
> Jim,
> Having shared both your and Tom's experiences, I suspect the "many years" 
> explains a lot.  Every new model becomes a little more value engineered over 
> time, even HP printers that were once the gold standard.  Tom's all-in-one 
> sells for under $80.  There's a Deskjet 1600C languishing in my loft, built 
> like a brick you-know-what, that set me back around $1,200 in 1995.  It 
> never put a foot wrong if I could have just lived with the resolution . . .
> 73, Peter G3LET
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jim Forsyth" <jim at forsyth.net>
> To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
> Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 5:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] UK-Contest Digest, Vol 41, Issue 23
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>
>   
>> I have been printing labels on my HP printer for many years and have never
>> once encountered the problems you seem to think are inescapable.
>>
>> Jim, AF6O
>>
>>     
>>> >From bitter experiance, I have found that HP printers are no good for
>>> label printing.   The reason is that they bend the page right round the
>>> roller
>>> and
>>> labels don't like this.  The small error equates to the difference in
>>> thickness
>>> of paper with
>>> labes compared with plain paper.
>>> You will soon meet the next problem with HP printers and labels  -  The
>>> labels
>>>
>>> start to peel off during their tortured journey round the roller.   Sorry
>>> but that
>>> is how it is.
>>>       
>>
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