The only problem with Canons that I’m aware of is that you can’t buy the supplies around here, which is a major pain.
]]>The HP Laserjets seem to work just fine. We have a few of them here in the office and they are workhorses.
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Every Epson dot matrix I’ve owned was a workhorse, long hours of trouble free printing. The same for the LaserJets, including those I converted to Postscript machines.
My Epson C80 started out as a great machine, but it didn’t age well, and died at two years from “nozzle problems”.
You use what works for you, based on your own experience.
If my Mother didn’t like color pictures of her greatgrandchildren, I would be back to a LaserJet before the sun set on another day. I look upon color printing as another way of confusing the information you should be presenting, just like the wave after fonts became widely available.
]]>Oh, btw, in the interim, I’ve watched several Epsons owned by friends bite the dust. I parodied their slogan: “When you’ve got trouble with an Epson… you’ve got a lot of company.”
]]>It may be that they ship different printers to different markets, because I’ve had the same problems that Badtux described with Epson printers, i.e. if you don’t use them everyday they clog, and if you do use them heavily, they break. The other problem is having to use the ‘Net to get ink, which adds shipping to the already inflated prices. I was hoping to save money because Epson used separate color cartridges, but the low use cartridges just seemed to dry out.
HP’s just seem to work and everyone down here carries the cartridges.
I use a printer in fits and starts, i.e. lots of use at certain times of year, and nothing for weeks. HPs seem to be happy with the situation, but the Epsons hate it. I also have a way to get to HP support that regular customers don’t, so, if I really needed assistance I could get it. Actually all I have ever used it for is to get the manuals so I can fix it myself.
As a corporation, HP sucks, and now they have wished Carly Fiorina on the unsuspecting people of California, as a candidate for the Senate. I wouldn’t do that to Alabama.
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on topic. i’ve always liked my hp stuff. and yeah, the newest printer i bought a couple of years ago is a printer/scanner/fax/cat bed, and it cost about the same as buying two replacement sets of ink for the old printer that had died.
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Which is the whole point, in the end…
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They gave me a free red sublimation coffee mug! LOL It’s great! It goes a kinda light pink/white when I put hot coffee in, and gradually returns to red as it cools. Handy because I know when the coffee is getting cold and I better finish it! 😆
heh…
]]>I have an excellent Epson stylus photo RX610 (because I wanted a scanner and a printer that would print CD/DVD discs). Epson inks are horrible expensive also though! So we got a continuous inking system (made here in Melb.) Amazingly, the ink quality is actually visibly better than the expensive epson *phto* inks and the price is way better! In an epson cartridge, you only actually get about 8ml od usable ink. A set of 4 costs about AU$40-$45. I can get a complete set of 6 x 100ml inks (including black which is extra for epson) for AU$70! The math is very simple. We’ve been using this for about a year now, and had zero problems so far. 🙂
RIHAC – Continuous Ink Supply Systems
I don’t see one for your printer. But it may have a different model # here (HP do that a lot too!)
PS. RIHAC do export if anyone want’s to save a fortune on inks! 😉
And, for the record… I seriously hate HP! They are on par with M$ IMHO!
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