At work, we run a number of 10 year old Epson inkjets that have
had tens of thousands of feet of continuous-feed roll and fan-fold
paper of use, and have gone through thousands of pounds worth of
cartridges each. All in dusty, salty, electrically harsh environments.
And we intend to keep on using them until the last one is dead, then
we'll mourn. You see, they have a bug in the firmware that allows you
to print arbitrarily long rolls of printout without any page skipping
(if you speak to them in ESC/P2).

--
Aidan
Aberdeen, Scotland



Hmm,

Can I ask what you are doing with the printers?

Your environment sounds very much like ours.
(Metal cabins bobbing around the North Sea,
or trucks bumping around deserts etc )

As does the printer useage.
( long prints wthout page breaks,
wireline well logs actually )

And being based in Aberdeen too...

Our cabins are painted orange, and since I don't recognise your name,
perhaps yours are painted blue?

--
Ron