I've had an HP5000 since 2001 and have printed much music with it. Years ago I tried the duplexer for it, but found it to be unreliable, at least with the heavyweight paper I use.
I kept my eye on the large format laser printer market for a long time, and 2+ years ago finally bit the bullet and bought a HP M712DN (1200dpi) at a huge discount. This machine has been an absolute dream. The duplexer is 100% reliable; I have never had a paper jam or misfeed the entire time I've owned it. I use it exclusively to print music, and keep heavyweight letter and 11x17 paper in its two paper trays. It's 4-5x faster than the LJ5000, and has saved me innumerable hours printing orchestral parts and scores. With the HP5000 I had to manually feed the flip side of duplexed pages to avoid paper jams, requiring my constant attention throughout a large print job; but with the M712DN I can send it as many print jobs as needed and immediately get back to what I was doing, letting the printer churn away until it's done. There's still the folding/stapling/trimming/binding etc. to produce finished sheet music, but my time involved with the actual printing has been reduced by as much as 95%. The main downside to the M712DN is that it is quite large, and weighs 85 lbs.; definitely a 2-person job to pick it up and move it around. But it's the biggest productivity enhancement I've encountered since engraving software. -Lee -----Original Message----- From: Finale [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On Behalf Of dfr...@smcm.edu Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2018 11:56 AM To: <finale@shsu.edu> Subject: Re: [Finale] printing advice Dear Chuck and Robert, Thank you! All I needed to do was to ask the printer preferences to find and add the HP5000 printer again (IP address from the printer’s info page). I should have figured this out on my own. For some reason, this was vastly easier than the initial time I was forced to print over IP (at the point when appletalk disappeared from macs). And that first IP connection has survived through at least 3 machine and many system upgrades. What a great machine! Still going after all these years. 1200 dpi, or 600 dpi at super speed, long-lasting printer cartridges (shockingly, still available as OEM). Granted, I don’t use it very heavily, but still, it is, by far, the oldest technology in my house. 25 years old sounds about right. David Chuck Israels wrote: > Dear David, > > This is exactly the setup I have (iMac - not Macbook) ? the printer must be > 25 years old! > > In my case, this has happened and removing the printer and adding it again in > the System Preferences/printer setup has solved the problem. I think the Mac > loses th IP address and sometimes generates another new one. I don?t think it > has to do with the particular OS you are using. > > Hope this helps, > > Chuck > >> On Apr 28, 2018, at 6:25 AM, dfr...@smcm.edu wrote: >> >> Hello all, >> I?ve been using an HP5000 printer for a very long time. It still works >> great. I installed a card that allowed it to print via ethernet (so, in >> essence, it is a HP5000N). It is a 600dpi, large-format, laser printer. >> >> I use a MacBook, running Sierra (not High Sierra). Suddenly, with the last >> system upgrade from Apple (to 10.12.6), the printer is no longer found. >> >> Is anyone on the list using a setup similar to mine, who experienced the >> same problem and has a solution? >> >> Or, perhaps, could someone make recommendations for a reliable printer that >> can print up to 12x18? >> >> Hoping for help! >> >> David Froom: text/plain; charset="UTF-8” and Robert Patterson wrote: > > I think Chuck's suggestion of dropping and re-adding the printer is the > right first step. It looks like HP has stopped supporting the 5000. If > dropping and re-adding it doesn't work (as Chuck suggested), I have some > further suggestions. > > 1) Download the appropriate driver from the hp website and reinstall it. It > looks like your driver may not have been updated since macOS 10.6. But it > still might work. > > 2) Create a virtual machine of a lower macOS version and print from there. > I did this for years with my previous large-format printer, which ceased to > function correctly starting with Mavericks. Considering my usage patterns, > for me it was not a noticeable hardship to start up the virtual for a print > job. > > 3) If you are in the mood for a new printer, I just bought a HP Color > Laserjet CP5225 that I am very happy with. With the manual feeder I can go > as large as 12.5"x18.5". (The tray goes up to 11x17.) It is not super-fast, > but the results are so much better than my previous printer which had been > slowly dying for a number of years. (And it isn't any slower than that one > was.) Plus it does color! It's not great for photo printing, but for adding > color accents to a document it is perfect. It is larger and heavier than I > would like. If I live long enough to replace it, I probably won't try to > move it again by myself. It really needs two people to lift it safely. > > Final note: if you order a CP5225, make sure you get the one that has an > automatic duplexer. You have to manually duplex oversize (larger than > 11x17) sheets, but it is very handy for 11x17 and smaller, and it adds > almost no additional cost. > and Chuck Israels wrote: > > And I forgot another thing: there is a way (in the menus on the printer > settings) to have the printer print a page that has its IP address (it > sometimes randomly generates a new one). Don?t remember where that is, but > there is printer setting that prints out a page with "Printer Information?. > I keep a copy of the IP address it prints out taped to the side of the > printer so I can tell the Mac where it is, if it doesn?t find it > automatically. > > Every time something like this happens and I think I need a new printer, a > cure turns up and the HP 5000N soldiers on. > > For B&W large format ? others have recommended a Ricoh model, but I am still > using the HP. > > Chuck _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
