Re: Hewlett Packard Paper Handling

Geoff Lane wrote:
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With my old Epson, paper was loaded in a top tray at about a 60 degree angle and came out the front; the HP paper is loaded flat in the front and it appears to be turned through 180 degrees before being ejected at the front.
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Any comments, positive or negative, about this system.

Every system has its good and bad points. I dislike the top-load method very much because it makes for dirty printer innards. I recently cleaned great amounts of household dust out of a Brother laser printer that I bought used. Dust is the enemy of such delicate things as precision laser drum coatings. I'd hope that engineers have more horse sense than this when designing products, but obviously, the marketing folks outvote them. We can do better as consumers by not buying self-destructing junk like this.

Hp inkjets have a reputation, I think, for paper feed trouble. I've done nicely with three HP inkjets. My secret is simple: I fan the paper on from both sides when loading. This is classic standard procedure in the commercial printing trade. Again, just horse sense.

What I'd have preferred, however, with my own printers, would have been a user-selectable paper path option. My Panasonic dot matrix printer offers the user _three_ paper feed options. That's thoughtful (it's ribbons are not -- they're the forerunner of our ink ripoffs).

Richard
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