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27 Feb 2008

HP Designjet printer head cleaning and repair

Two years of use
This article is of use solely to those using or contemplating purchase of one of the Hewlett Packard 30/90/130 DesignJet dye ink printers. Actually, even if you do not have one but enjoy pithy comments, read on in any case, as it gives me a chance to unload on a brilliant […]

06 Jun 2007

HP - reality check needed

Printer woes are not helped by HP’s support desk
I was about to run up an 18″ x 24″ print for a friend, who had seen the original in my one-man show in May, only to find that my iMac couldn’t find the HP DesignJet 90 printer. After all the usual checks, I reluctantly called […]

27 Feb 2007

HP DesignJet 90 ink use

Frugality is thy name.
I did some arithmetic to show just how inexpensive ink and paper are when it comes to a large exhibition print using the DJ90 here.
Well, it’s coming up on my first anniversary of ownership of the HP DesignJet 90 printer and it finally came time to replace one of the ink cartridges […]

29 Nov 2006

HP ink costs

The old HP 12C helps out.
In my piece on framing Really Big Prints I guessed at the cost of ink used by that frugal beast, the Hewlett Packard DesignJet 90 printer.
Well, in the HP engineering spirit, I whipped out the old 12C and set to work.

Checking the ink levels on the printer showed the following:
Yellow […]

26 Oct 2006

Mounting Really Big Prints

Some practical hints.
Every year, a couple of months before Christmas, I invite a few friends to select a couple of prints from a small web presentation, asking that they elect 13″ x 19″ or, now that I have the HP DJ90, 18″ x 24″.
It’s well over a year since I grumbled mightily about the price […]

04 Oct 2006

HP DesignJet Z photo printer

Brought to you despite the Board of Directors.
If you have been following the financial news recently, you could be excused for thinking the Board of Hewlett Packard couldn’t organize a booze-up in a brewery. Depsite the twits in the corner office, the great engineers at HP continue to make innovative products. The most […]

25 Sep 2006

Well done Epson

Someone there is thinking.
Picking up on the growing popularity of widescreen (16:9) movies in the home, Epson has started making photo printing paper in 16:9 format.
So now those of us lucky enough to be using Panasonic’s wonderful Lumix LX1 (or, now, LX2) camera, and others like it which have 16:9 built in, can get the