Small Office Looses Business L7780

Have been a hp owner since 1989 have bout about 10,000 dollars in printers over the years.
They need to make some changes. Problem one is my office is down because there all in one printer L7780 has an error print head color I do not even use.
I can't fax, I can't san to computer, I can't print in black witch is all I need.
In the 90's if a color went out you could still print black and use the unit.
So I bought a new printer head per error This new printer head cost over 90 dollars with shipping because office max and staples don't carry "It has not fixed the problem".. I check several other problem that may be Rollers, jams, Cleaning ect.....
HP has to change there software to allow operation of other devices. Going to buy else were until they do problem still not fixed. Magenta/cyan print head problem
P/S were do I collect on my warranty's for print heads they have a good till warranty dates?
One pissed off customer office is down.
George Cizek

I was looking originally at the 3750 series (1000 and 100 and using the stacking ports) but the cost may be a little high.
You will no longer be able to purchase FastEthernet 3750 as Cisco has announced the End-of-Sale of the 10/100BaseTx of the 3560 and 3750 since January 2011. Cisco has also announced the End-of-Sale of the 3560G/E and 3750G/E back in March 2012.
So this leaves you with the 3560X and the 3750X and I can assure you this variety doesn't come cheap at all.
This leaves you with the last remaining stack-capable model, the 2960S. Like what Paul has said, the 2960S is a "triple speed" variety: 10/100/1000BaseTx. You can have uplinks of 1 Gbps fibre or 10 Gbps fibre. You can have "half" PoE or Full PoE.
But what sets the 2960S different from the 3750X (in terms of stacking) is the amount of switches in a stack. The 3750X can support up to nine but the 2960S can support up to four. This factor was set deliberately to prevent potential users to choose the cheaper 2960S instead of the 3750X.

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Hi Rick,
This is a great question that our Partner Design Support team can help you with. Please go here to start chatting with them:
https://supportforums.cisco.com/community/netpro/small-business/partnerzone/pds
Refer the engineer to this post so that they can see what you have.
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for Cisco Small Business Products
www.cisco.com/go/smallbizsupport
twitter: CiscoSBsupport

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1, Get a cable internet ISP account; depending on your service you should be able to secure a 5Mbps down and 2Mbps up on the cable e.g. Cox or Comcast.
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