Digital BW, The Print

Yes, I've gotten 2 bad carts, but HP sent out fresh ones immediately.

Glad you were able to get to see what the printer is capable of 
before writing it off :)

mark

PS  My bad carts produced vertical banding.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Editor P.O.V. 
Image Service" <editor@p...> wrote:
> An update on the HP 7660 testing.. Tried a new #59 cartridge today 
and 
> loa nd behold NO blocked up shadows...
> 
> Therefore, I can now recommend using the 7660/7760/7960 for B&W 
> printing, with the caveat that the design of the HP system, which 
> incorporates the printhead in each cartridge means that HP needs or 
> needed more stringent quality control if image quality is to be 
> acceptable and consistent.   This is NOT the first report of bad 
#59 
> cartridges..
> 
> I'll be calling HP today and asking for a new cartridge. This stuff 
> isn't cheap and wasting a lot of paper and a whole cartridge until 
I 
> tried another cartridge to find it was a cartridge issue is IMHO 
ridiculous.
> 
>  
> Keith Krebs
> 
> "Just some guy," caretaker of the Multiverse's largest EPSON 
printer 
> User Community (highly recommended by Vogon Poets and MegaDodo 
> Publications), at:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EPSON_Printers/
> and  the Multiverse's largest Canon printer User  Community at:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Canon-printers
> "For the rest of you out there, the secret is to bang the rocks 
together 
> guys"