[ale] Picking a home paper / photo printer

[Greg Freemyer]

Thanks All,

I ended up buying the Canon MP620.  $50 off at Micro Center this
weekend and no taxes, so it ended up at $120 total.

The install is a pain, but I'm almost done with the first machine (xp
in hopes of getting the wireless done as easily as possible.  I'll
worry about linux later.)

Greg

On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 11:07 AM, aaron<aaron at pd.org> wrote:
> On 2009, Aug, 02, , at 1:50 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> It really depends on which Epson model you have as to the nozzle
>> clogging problem. The cheap ones for home owners will clog unless you
>> print one page about daily. The higher end models have a better
>> fitting nozzle cap (some really cheap models don't have one at all -
>> think single-tank color and black). Once you get into the $200+ range,
>> they are all pretty good.
>
> [scissors of brevity]
>
> Maybe I'm just lucky, but I haven't had any of the head
> clogging problems being discussed with the Epson Inkjet
> printers I've worked with over the past few years, and
> some of them may sit for days or even weeks between uses.
>
> The models I've used most are the Stylus Photo 2XX series,
> which I and my clients have purchased because we bought
> them for less than $100 and can print on CD & DVD for our
> media production work. These employ a 6 cartridge color
> system and can produce very nice photographic quality
> output (though I agree that a photo printing services are
> a more cost effective and higher quality choice for any
> volume photo work).
>
> Most all the models I work with use the T048X cartridge
> set, but the most recent purchase was a model 280 that
> switched up to the slightly more expensive "Clarion" inks
> (small argh that have to stock 2 kinds of cartridges now).
> We don't attempt refilling the cartridges or using 3rd
> party brands; we just bite the (~$70 per cartidge set)
> bullet and use the recommended Epson brand cartridges.
> I have even used a couple sets of cartridges that had
> passed their "use by" date without apparent problems.
> We mostly print black text only on our CD's and DVD's
> and I guestimate we get about 200 from a (~$15) cartridge
> of black ink in addition to 50 or so gray scale full
> pages.
>
> While it should make absolutely no difference in regards
> to head clogging issues, I will add that all of these
> printers have been connected to Mac OSeX systems and
> are run using the factory supplied drivers. Mac OSeX
> is still CUPS and the printers run their head cleaning
> functions at power on, so I don't see where running
> from Linux would make any significant difference.
>
> Last note is that we have had head clog problems with
> the HP (5120?) inkjet that one client purchased without
> consulting me.  It prints on CD/DVD as well, but the
> HP inks tend to blotter and bleed more so the quality
> is not nearly as good as with the Epsons.
>
> HT02H!
>
> peace
> aaron
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