[Glastonbury] My CUPS floweth not ...

[Alistair Parsons]

USB is cheaper to produce than parralel
its a bit slower
cheaper to have over long distances
more prone to software niggles

Cheap printers like the 42+ are basically disposable cartridge holders
subsidised by cartridge sales
a lot of people buy a new printer rather than buying a new set of 
cartridges.

epson cartridges have very highly developed inks that are shot out in a 
weird double tap method, also they contain chemicals to clean the heads

the printers can get easily damaged by using cheap 3rd party inks, ive 
seen dozens of epson printers be consigned to the skip as the print 
heads have completely gone

on a side note, the epson printer techies in india use sanitary towels 
as waste ink pads  as its cheaper!

Alistair




tim hall wrote:

>Last Sunday 14 November 2004 21:37, Alistair Parsons was like:
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>>according to epson tech support parallel is 10% faster than USB1.
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>So that's why they made the C42+ model USB only?
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>The difficult bit is configuring CUPS and then making sure the different 
>application groups (KDE OpenOffice GNOME Firefox etc.) all play ball. 
>Fortunately It's always possible to make a PDF and print that from the 
>command line if all else fails. The 10% extra wait for parallel is 
>negligible.
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>cheers
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>tim hall
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