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a3 printer recommendations

Posted by Richard Urquhart on 19 July 2006 at 20:40

hi all the time has come to give nice looking a3 prints of vehicle designs
please can you recommend one

don’t want to spend loads
thanks rich

Richard Urquhart replied 19 years, 3 months ago 7 Members · 16 Replies
16 Replies

David Rowland

Member
19 July 2006 at 20:45

hm… you will need to spend a fortune per print and get a printer free!
Lo-run use and can afford to wait for it to print, look at A3 epson or HP inkjet.

Colour Laser is expensive, we are on contract with ours as we use the damn thing every 5 minutes.
Garrie

Member
19 July 2006 at 21:12

I use http://www.novatech.co.uk for my PC stuff. great site, great advice, support and best of all great prices..

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/spec … ?HP-C8174A
Richard Urquhart

Member
19 July 2006 at 21:20

thanks for that i have used them in the passed and they have been great i seen one on ebay second hand well recon
Dave Harrison

Member
19 July 2006 at 21:48

I personally think you are better off showing clients a design on the screen of your laptop whenever possible, it makes it more difficult for them to run off shopping for prices with your design !
I have a old epson photo 1200 which prints upto A3 it’s pretty slow but if the right media is used the quality is great.

plus a full set of cartridges can be picked up for under a tenner ! have a look on Ebay. .
Richard Urquhart

Member
19 July 2006 at 21:53

i agree with that but i have started charging and getting design money up front been had too many times
i then deduct the money from fitted job on collection that way even if they do run off i get design money i have bid on a hp2500cm
Richard Urquhart

Member
20 July 2006 at 13:21

OK got a hp2500cm printer with new carts and heads etc
just noticed its parallel connection
can any one tell me if the parallel to usb things work if so any recommendations please
thanks rich

don’t tell me the hp2500cm is rubbish or i will be gutted
thanks rich
Tim Jay

Member
20 July 2006 at 13:52

Hadn’t seen this thread before so glad you got a HP in the end, sure you’ll be pleased once you’ve got it connected – sorry I can’t comment on the usb to parallel device.

I was after an A3 HP after being so pleased with my little old A4 HP. On the day I went out to get one only Epson in stock…. got talked into it by the sales droid…. but worst couple hundred pounds spent. Wish I’d waited to get the HP.

Since then bought another A4 HP multi-machine excellent. So when the A3 Epson gives up it’s defiantly HP for me next time.
Stephen Morriss

Member
20 July 2006 at 15:11

Hp’s are much better as an office type machine.
If the head isn’t part of the cartridge then they are made to be replaced by the user, great printers far better than Epson.
I will admit that the print on the Epson is slightly better but they use more ink and the heads are prone to blocking.

Steve
Richard Urquhart

Member
20 July 2006 at 16:37

yes looks like heads are not part of cart
thanks for the help
pick up tomorrow so fingers crossed
RobGF

Member
21 July 2006 at 03:08

quote Richard Urquhart:

OK got a hp2500cm printer with new carts and heads etc
just noticed its parallel connection
can any one tell me if the parallel to usb things work if so any recommendations please
thanks rich

don’t tell me the hp2500cm is rubbish or i will be gutted
thanks rich

Doesn’t that printer have ethernet or a slot for their Jet card? I thought they pushed that unit as a small multi-user inkjet.
Richard Urquhart

Member
21 July 2006 at 08:33

rob hi mate means nothing to me !
Stephen Morriss

Member
21 July 2006 at 09:40

If the printer already has an Ethernet connection or has a slot for a jet-card it means you can network it, the jet-card is a print server, look on eBay for them or it may already have one.
Basically it means you can connect the printer to the network directly and not to a computer, then any computer on the network can print to it and you don’t have to leave a computer on all the time to make the printer available for use.

Not really relevant in a 1 computer office but handy if you have more than 1, I have a few printers on my network but we have 7 computers on it.
Richard Urquhart

Member
21 July 2006 at 09:44

ah i see
thanks mate will see how i get on
thanks rich
Richard Urquhart

Member
21 July 2006 at 14:52

well all is working
but and there is always a but
when i send a file to printer it shows on the printer the following
processing job and it take ages
any ideas
Richard Urquhart

Member
21 July 2006 at 14:59

ok all sorted driver probs
thanks rich
Richard Urquhart

Member
21 July 2006 at 19:03

well just to follow up looks like i had a great deal
hp 2500cm printer 4 new heads installed and 4 new ones supplied ink 99% on 3 carts so one to buy

cost of hp carts £24 but found hp carts on net for £15 new not refilled
and payed £50 for the printer
so im real happy