Hey all,
This is an option I considered, but rejected back in January (before
making the first service call), mainly because I am very uneasy about
buying used gear on eBay. However, it could scarcely be worse than
the money pit this printer has become.
However, as things stand now, I have several hundred dollars worth of
sunk costs in the Ricoh. Yes, I could theoretically cancel the order
for the new parts and next week's service call, and try to find a
used large-format HP instead. But that will almost certainly run me
more money than the service call + parts, which offers at least a
reasonable chance of solving the problem. Like the maintenance kit,
it's a gamble -- but so is buying a used printer on eBay.
Cheers,
- Darcy
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On 09 Mar 2007, at 4:32 PM, Jonathan Smith wrote:
On 08.03.2007 Darcy James Argue wrote:
Now the registration on the printer is totally screwed up, and
the $200 maintenance kit I installed didn't help one bit. The
Ricoh technician was able to come by today, but couldn't solve
the problem. (I have to pay $270 for the house call regardless.)
He's ordered me new registration and paper feed clutches, and
will be back to install them next week -- another $270 for the
labor, plus whatever the parts cost. And HOPEFULLY that fixes the
problem, but if not...
Are you really sure you want to spend any more money on this
printer? HP5000s are going pretty cheap on ebay.
Johannes
And getting spare parts (incl. new duplexers) direct from HP is
very easy.
Jonathan
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