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Re: Taking a printer as cargo on an aircraft - unpressurised?

2004-07-13 by Scott Graham

I'd check with the airline.  Might save you a lot of trouble.  I think the cargo areas are both 
pressurised and heated.  They ship a lot of pets: cats, tropical fish in volume for 
commercial importers, etc.,  that will take neither lack of air or freezing.- and flowers too I 
think.

Scott

 In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "ayashko" <ayashko@y...> wrote:
> Hi guys, I'm back in Australia till mid August, then am flying back to the mid-
> east. I want to buy a R800 while I'm here, get profiles etc, then take it back 
> with me. Problem is that taking it as cargo makes me think that there's going to 
> be a pretty nasty mess at the other end - even after removing the cartridges, 
> there'll still be ink in the lines, and the low pressure plus freezing 
> temperatures...?
> I've talked to Epson here in Australia, and they "don't recommend it", but said I 
> might be lucky. Yeah, OK.
> Has anyone had any experience - good or bad - or ideas on how to manage 
> getting a 'used' printer O/S, and still having a working product at the other 
> end? Any help appreciated, thanks.
> Alex

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