On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:53:15PM +0100, M.Blackmore wrote:
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>On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 15:10 +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
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>> My counterpoint is I had two HP inkjets, and they were both utter
>> crap.
>
>As Chris says, they don't build them like that anymore - the 500 series
>were engineered by engineers, everything since then been beaned on the
>bonce by beancounters, ditto any laser since the 4 series.
To be slightly fair to the beancounters, the III & 4 series LaserJets
were hugely overengineered: there's a (possibly apocryphal) tale of an
HP beancounter dragging the engineers into a meeting, standing on an
LJ 4 and jumping up and down on it, before pointing out that their
customers were paying them to make laser printers, not footstools.
Phil
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