Comments on: HP’s recycling programme http://www.leyton.org/2006/09/02/hps-recycling-programme/ Thoughts. Comment. Opinion. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:03:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: heather clancy http://www.leyton.org/2006/09/02/hps-recycling-programme/#comment-24717 heather clancy Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:44:35 +0000 http://www.leyton.org/diary/2006/09/02/hps-recycling-programme/#comment-24717 <p>If you’re the owner of an inkjet or multifunction printer from Hewlett-Packard, those little green recycling packets that you find in your replacement ink cartridge packages are about to go away. That’s because the company’s imaging group has begun piloting a new HP Planet Partners print and cartridge return program at more than 1,500 Staples retail locations around the United States. The effort is part of the broader HP Eco Solutions initiative.</p> If you’re the owner of an inkjet or multifunction printer from Hewlett-Packard, those little green recycling packets that you find in your replacement ink cartridge packages are about to go away. That’s because the company’s imaging group has begun piloting a new HP Planet Partners print and cartridge return program at more than 1,500 Staples retail locations around the United States. The effort is part of the broader HP Eco Solutions initiative.

]]> By: Techie Musings » Buying postage online http://www.leyton.org/2006/09/02/hps-recycling-programme/#comment-19508 Techie Musings » Buying postage online Sat, 30 Sep 2006 14:59:55 +0000 http://www.leyton.org/diary/2006/09/02/hps-recycling-programme/#comment-19508 <p>[...] The latter point proved to be the main gotcha - Whilst my laser printer (HP Laserjet 1200 as it happens) supports DL envelopes, I had all sorts of puzzling to go through when I discovered that the sample was skewed such that the right-hand side of the image was being missed. [...]</p> [...] The latter point proved to be the main gotcha - Whilst my laser printer (HP Laserjet 1200 as it happens) supports DL envelopes, I had all sorts of puzzling to go through when I discovered that the sample was skewed such that the right-hand side of the image was being missed. [...]

]]> By: Ben Evans http://www.leyton.org/2006/09/02/hps-recycling-programme/#comment-19507 Ben Evans Sun, 03 Sep 2006 09:55:47 +0000 http://www.leyton.org/diary/2006/09/02/hps-recycling-programme/#comment-19507 <p>Yep, I know HP are globally respected as a manufacturer of pocket calculators, and I understand they make computers as well these days, but I have to admit they make excellent laser printers, and I would take a lot of persuasion to buy anything else.</p> <p>I've had an HP laserjet 4ML for aeons - well 10 years at least - replacement toners are inexpensive, i've only had to replace the toner a few times in a decade, it does not jam etc.</p> <p>I recently purchased an HP 3600n to print colour, and I have to say it is pretty whizzy, with a really low cost of ownership and knocks out 20ppm. Also it came with fully loaded toners rather than the part full offerings that other vendors sometimes supply in their printers. This makes a real difference because colour toners are quire costly.</p> <p>However, I'm pretty anti HP as a computer vendor having had to administer HP workstations (they were called Bobcats for some reason) back in the early days of the Unix workstation. Nasty HP-UX operating system (referred to as H-Pukes at our site), no NFS, no BSD print spooling, bizzare file name length restrictions and a whole lot of other goodness that time and post traumatic stress disorder have conveniently wiped from my mempry. No wonder HP had to give them University I worked for because no-one in their right mind would have paid for them.</p> Yep, I know HP are globally respected as a manufacturer of pocket calculators, and I understand they make computers as well these days, but I have to admit they make excellent laser printers, and I would take a lot of persuasion to buy anything else.

I’ve had an HP laserjet 4ML for aeons - well 10 years at least - replacement toners are inexpensive, i’ve only had to replace the toner a few times in a decade, it does not jam etc.

I recently purchased an HP 3600n to print colour, and I have to say it is pretty whizzy, with a really low cost of ownership and knocks out 20ppm. Also it came with fully loaded toners rather than the part full offerings that other vendors sometimes supply in their printers. This makes a real difference because colour toners are quire costly.

However, I’m pretty anti HP as a computer vendor having had to administer HP workstations (they were called Bobcats for some reason) back in the early days of the Unix workstation. Nasty HP-UX operating system (referred to as H-Pukes at our site), no NFS, no BSD print spooling, bizzare file name length restrictions and a whole lot of other goodness that time and post traumatic stress disorder have conveniently wiped from my mempry. No wonder HP had to give them University I worked for because no-one in their right mind would have paid for them.

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