The Incomperable Z3200

[robertDthomas]

A couple years ago I had the belt fail on my Z3200 and noisy (grinding) sound from my powersupply fan.  I had some backlog of work and wanted to try out Epson so bought a P9000 to process the work.  After a few months I repaired the Z3200 with a lot of help from Mark Lindquist and had it back running.  Used it along with the Epson for awhile but work dropped off and I preferred the speed and quietness of the Epson so turned off the HP.  Things picked up and went to the HP to restart and found I had left it off for 10 MONTHS.  I just agitated the cartridges and then fired it up, calibrated a paper and it worked fine.  No head cleaning or anything else.  Printed several prints and all fine.  AMAZING.  I still prefer the speed and how quite the P9000 is when its not printing but I have done periodic cleaning of heads on the Epson and none with the HP.

[John Nollendorfs]

Robert:
Speed is relative. The Z is very quiet when not running, unless you have a very noisy powersupply fan. Have you tried the high sample profiling targets of the Z, and compared results with the Epson. Would be interesting to hear about the comparative results!