Printers

Lexmark Z640
I am considering this printer I note that it does not come with a black cartridge as standard. Seems a bit of a disadvantage. Can it print in black as standard. If so, why is a balck cartridge offered as an option. If not, what happens when it comes to text? Thanks ps. Would you recommend the printer (for... 24 Jan 2008 07:29

B9180 carriage jam
Hi I have a HP Photosmart Pro B9180 printer. It's about 18 months old, but hasn't been used much. Its developed a fault. When the printhead carriage moves to the right hand side, it makes a loud noise, as if something has jammed, and the printer comes up with the following error message: "Service stall... 20 Jan 2008 05:33

Canon i865
I have a Canon i865 printer which has been v.good over the past two years. However recently it has started to develop a banding problem in that dark horizontal lines, about 5mm apart, appear whenever I try to print any sizeable block of any colour. The darker the colour the more pronounced the banding. No p... 21 Jan 2008 01:26

Jet Direct WebAdmin - System Location Identity, How To Change?
I saw only one other old post about this, but I've got an HP Laserjet with a JetDirect J3113A card in it. The Web Admin utility shows a summary of the settings and shows "System Location: Data Entry" I can't find anywhere where you can change this location label. Nothing else in the admin pages show any fields m... 8 Jan 2008 08:46

Kyocera Network Printer Problem
I have a three machine wireless network connected via a Belkin 4 port wireless router and I have a Kyocera FS-1050 laser printer which is currently attached to one of the machines (the one hard wired to the router) via USB. The printer can be used remotely as a shared device by the other two machines which are c... 3 Jan 2008 22:41

HP DeskJet 882C won't print landscape.
Hi, "Landscape" is enabled in all applicable places but the HP 882C prints only "portrait" repeatedly. Any solutions to correct this? Thank you. Andy I. (Win XP SP2) ... 20 Nov 2007 02:40

OCP Inks.
I contacted OCP in Germany querying the durability of their inks. Readers of this forum may be interested in their reply (except of course 'measkite', who's already made his 'mind' up). The reply follows, verbatum: Dear Mr. Ford, thank you very much for your a.m. request. We do not have a general data o... 10 Nov 2007 08:43

HP Driver Update Types
I attempted to install an HP P2015 printer on a new Win XP Home with MS Office 2007 and received the error: Executable D:\P2015eGSG.exe' had the following unrecoverable error: Couldn't find library MSVCR80.dll required by C:\Progra~1\Common~1\Micros~1\Office12\MSOXMLMF.DLL Please ensure that it is inst... 16 Oct 2007 09:58

Konica-Minolta 2300 Series (DL & W models) paper feed problems - anyone else had this?
I posted around a year ago regarding a paper feed problem with my Konica Minolta 2300DL reporting phantom paper jams. Having picked up the paper it didn't reach the second set of rollers quick enough and reported a 'Paper Jam - Tray 1' error. I was given a 2300W (the cheaper non-network and Windows only version ... 9 Sep 2007 06:59

How to avoid Epson ink clogs
Contemplating a 4 month vacation trip to a friends house, do not want to come back to a clogged Epson 4800 Pro. Thinking of several approaches: 1) Remove print head, feasible? Void my warranty? 2) Try to find 3rd party ink vendor who sells some sort of ink 'flushing' scheme - - - but think this might b... 25 Jul 2007 20:37