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HP was legendary in electronic test equipment and early computers, calculators etc. Look on Ebay for HP branded power supplies or multimeters, for instance, and
by gh02t 5y ago
HP was legendary in electronic test equipment and early computers, calculators etc. Look on Ebay for HP branded power supplies or multimeters, for instance, and you'll see that they still command very high prices. And it's not collectors buying them AFAIK, it's mostly people using them-- even 30 or 40 year old gear. They spun off the test equipment division as Agilent (which still exists and is highly respected under then name Keysight) around the time their computing division started to go downhill.
- jdkee 5y agoLaserJet III.
- WWLink 5y agoThis is all true. I always hated their deskjet printers, though. The First one I had was a Deskjet 500 and that thing was a massive turd with very expensive ink cartridges, and no matter how many times I cleaned the rollers, it'd still have issues not being able to feed paper. Shit design.
- toast0 5y agoI had a 600 something C that was pretty decent, and my wife had a 720C that we abandoned because drivers got too fussy around Windows 8.1ish (the 64-bit driver in windows update didn't work, but if you got the driver from 64-bit xp, it would work). The color had stopped working, but not bad for 15+ years of service.
- CSSer 5y agoHas there ever been a good printer though? If there has I'm either out of the loop or sad that I'm not old enough to remember it.
- nonesuchluck 5y agoI sympathize with this sentiment, I hate printers. Worked in a copy shop for a time. Hate em. But there has been at least 1 good printer, and HP made it: - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_LaserJet_5 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_LaserJet_5 Also, 9-pin dot matrix printers were workhorses.
- dboreham 5y agoI think it's more printer _software_ that sucks. But we have three LaserJet M553 printers that have functioned perfectly. I think that model only recently went out of production and can still be found on the shelf.
- nolok 5y agoI have a sharp mx c301w color laser printer at the office and it's frankly just great. Scanning, printing and whatever just work. At home I have an Epson ET-M3170, it's not a laser but one of those epson thing where you don't have cartride but just empty bottles of ink into a tank when it's empty, and it works great too (it's much slower, but then again it's a lot cheaper). It's mostly inkjet printers that are always terrible.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoBrother Laser MFCs have been good for me for 15+ years.
- Alexqw85 5y agoHP used to make amazing monochrome laser printers. I can't really speak to other brands, but I maintained dozens of LaserJet 4000, 4050, and 4100 printers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_LaserJet_4000_series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_LaserJet_4000_series Those things are tanks. Perform a maintenance kit on one of those, and it's good for another 150k pages no problem. The main thing that needs attention is the rubber feet that pick up the paper get dry. Some rubber rejuvenator on a q-tip goes a long way. I have a 4050 for home, and I have no reason to doubt its future longevity. :-) The firmware, though, is ancient (telnet, and a web interface that requires IE 5 IIRC). Now if there was open source firmware for these things...
- PHGamer 5y agotheir business laserjets were amazing but they started adding shit to make them crappy like time limited catridges and what not.