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Re: HP SitePrint

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Post by tech4all »

Cool! From HP! The robot only costs $1,500 but a two pack of extra sharpies for it costs $48,000. Before you can use it, you must install 5 petabytes of HP drivers.

Re: HP SitePrint

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Post by pugworthy »

HP gets a lot of crap for home printer quality and ink DRM, but does still have some neat products like this.

The industrial printers for example, especially the PageWide Web Press line are impressive. The T1100 is a huge beast.

Then there are the life science products that can do precision dispensing of fluids for life sciences and drug discovery. Some of them also do individual single live cell dispensing.

Re: HP SitePrint

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Post by PaulHoule »

pugworthy wrote: post #4

HP gets a lot of crap for home printer quality and ink DRM, but does still have some neat products like this. The industrial printers for example, especially the PageWide Web Press line are impressive. The T1100 is a huge beast. Then there are the life science products that can do precision dispensing of fluids for life sciences and drug discovery. Some of them also do individual single live cell dispensing.

(1) As much as people complain, home inkjet printers do a remarkable job of printing high quality art reproductions and photos at low cost relative to alternatives, (Sure offset litho is cheaper… if you are running 10,000 prints)

(2) The key to this using quality materials. You’ve got to use good coated paper (which is relatively expensive.). You can mostly trust OEM ink although I found low-end EcoTank printers use ink that fades in six months although the higher end models like the ET-8550 are better. Look at forums and you will find many versions of “I was trying to print borderless and all I got was this inksplosion” and the common denominator is third party inks. There could be testing of third party inks that proves they are comparable to or even superior too the OEM links but as it is there is no testing because… they target a consumer who doesn’t care.

Re: HP SitePrint

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Post by 1970-01-01 »

Take your pick:

If you give it a big job, it freezes halfway and just spins its wheels as fast as it can until you unplug it.

It refuses to paint yellow lines when it's out of blue paint.

It asks you for feedback after doing any and every job.

It doesn't have good Linux support.

It has no off button. The only modes are printing, standby at half power, or unplugged.

When you want to just print a small blue square on the floor, it makes xxxjuukkktsssssruuuuukkkttt sounds for 5 minutes, pauses for another 2, zooms at max speed to the location on the floor, pauses for 10 seconds, and begins doing the actual job it was designed to do, but does it in a shade of blueish brown.

Re: HP SitePrint

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Post by sfortis »

1970-01-01 wrote: post #8

Take your pick: If you give it a big job, it freezes halfway and just spins its wheels as fast as it can until you unplug it. It refuses to paint yellow lines when it's out of blue paint. It asks you for feedback after doing any and every job. It doesn't have good Linux support. It has no off button. The only modes are printing, standby at half power, or unplugged. When you want to just print a small blue square on t…

+ If your subscription expires while it's printing, it freezes and you have to carry it back home.
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