But I can tell you, I am saying this from the experience of the
profiler in our team, he HATED Epson 2000P, it gave him sleepless
nights, and he couldn't get it right at all. No matter what he did
to it it came out green, Green, GREEN! He almost turned green and
died there and then. But Epson 1270 he loved. He didn't have the
brand phobia, but he certainly had the that particular printer
phobia. And it's pitiful for me to watched him like that.
I said before when the inks ran out, our project manager running
the side-by-side tests said to him "Okay, I think we will not
continue to test 2000P, it's slow and is holding us up." You would
not imagine how relieved he was. He almost plant and
mouth-to-mouth kiss to our (male) project manager!
So people are scarred by some printer models. The less informed,
especially when they encountered TWO such problems, will most
likely be confirmed to pan the WHOLE range of printers coming from
that factory/brand. That, I believe, was the case for TDDZC.
Take one of my friends, which I recommended the Canon, for
instance. Granted she bought the cheapest range for her occiasional
printing. Problem is that that printer didn't seem to be meant
for occasional printing. The cart actually dried up merely two
weeks of inactivity. I asked her to give it another chance and buy
the new carts. It did work fine for a while. Then again two weeks
of inactivity, inks dried up again! This time, it seemed the
nozzles also appeared clogged. She gave up. I felt sorry for her
and guilty that I recommended that one to her, because it fitted
her budget.
Do you think she will be considering another Canon? Very likely no,
not for a very long, long time.
So it is with HP printers. Do you see what I mean?
BTW, What (or who) is the 'dark side'?
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Fotografer
