[Gloucs] Printer, scanner and All-in-one's

Wed Feb 16 00:15:44 UTC 2011

The kits are easy to get hold of... most ink places online sell them

On 15/02/2011 22:54, Glyn Davies wrote:
> Some guys used to go around radio rallies selling mod kits for printers.
> Said kit told you how to drill holes in the top of the cartridges, you then
> attached some flexible plumbing to said holes and attached 50 gallon drums
> of ink the other. Said plumbling whizzed along as the print head moved.
> Overall effect looked like a cross beween a Doctor Who baddie and an hot
> rod. Didn't see what the quality of the prints were like. Not seen these
> kits anyway else. A quick looks on Ebay produced nowt. I may have
> exaggerated the ink quantity a bit.
>
> On 15 February 2011 16:36, Andrew Ford<A.Ford at ford-mason.co.uk>  wrote:
>
>> Our Epson 7600 has 7 colours - Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black, Light Cyan,
>> Light Magenta (light yellow isn't necessary as yellow is perceived as light
>> anyway)... and the final colour is described as "Light Black"!  I suspect
>> that that is what you've got too as your fifth cartridge.  It is essentially
>> gray, but having black and gray gives a wider range of shades of black than
>> just having a single black cartridge.
>>
>> Most printers - even fine art printers like the Epson wide-format printers
>> - are sRGB devices, so they map RGB values into the CMYK colour space (black
>> is represented as K to differentiate it from B for Blue in RGB colour
>> space).  Colour management is quite a complex subject (my wife does fine art
>> printing for artists and galleries).  Unfortunately colour management in
>> Linux is only now starting to catch up with Windows and Macs.
>>
>> It amazes me how well consumer photo printers perform, although the cost of
>> inks astounds me.  Most consumer-grade printers use 15 to 20 ml cartridges,
>> which can cost about £25.  The professional quality inks we use come in 200
>> ml cartridges costing about £60 each.  Go do the maths!
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>>
>> On 15/02/11 16:06, Ernie wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>> and thanks for the replies that I had.
>>> Eventually I decided to get an HP All-in-One and went totally mad and
>>> bought the HP Photosmart eStation C510! its a wireless device with a USB
>>> connector as well.
>>>
>>> As you said Matthew, Ubuntu supports it well.  Set up was easy and I was
>>> doing standard sort of printing and a couple of photo inno time at all.
>>>   Then on to the scanner.  Perfect!
>>> However (well, no not really) I'm still playing with the undock-able,
>>> screen.  They call it a 'Zeen' It's just too clever for its own good. Seems
>>> to be a cross between an ipad/ipod sort of thingy.  Not that I know
>>> anythin(!) about hand held (Phones-ugh!) devices.
>>> So I've got it to tell me whenever I can receive emails, tell me the
>>> weather, browse on the Internet etc.  All seems to work well on my wi-fi
>>> network at home.  Haven't yet taken it anywhere else that I know has wifi,
>>> (Starbucks) as I don't yet know what the battery life is like.
>>>
>>> Of and I can see the ink levels and do normal administration of the
>>> printer and scanner from it.
>>>
>>> What made me decide on it was that we had just decided to pop inti a local
>>> Curry's PC World - just to have a look around, and we found that there was a
>>> visiting chap from HP, who was very helpful.  He seemed to understand what I
>>> was asking (Ubuntu /Linux etc) well, at least it wasn't the blank stare you
>>> often get from the 'salesman' at those sort of establishments.
>>>
>>>
>>> This printer, by the way has 5 separate ink cartridges, though only 3
>>> colours, a black and another - which looks like a sort of dark gray.
>>> Oh and ther's an SD slot in the Zeen, which I haven't tried yet.  You can
>>> print across the Internet.........  Oh wow!  can't wait to try it ;-)
>>> Ernie
>>>
>>>
>>> On 03/02/11 12:48, Matthew Phillips wrote:
>>>
>>>> HP printers are well supported on ubuntu by installing hplip
>>>> http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/screenshots.html
>>>>
>>>> sudo apt-get install hplip hplip-gui hplip-cups hplip-data
>>>>
>>>> I currently use a HP Photosmart C5180 all in one (wired network printer)
>>>> Scanner can be accessed via web interface or directly via front panel.
>>>> Scans
>>>> can be saved to memory card which is then accessed using smb as it
>>>> presents
>>>> itself as a network share.
>>>> Printing works just fine.
>>>> It also has a extra 6x4 paper tray for the decent printouts.
>>>>
>>>> It has 5 colour cartridges and a large black. I bought it from tesco over
>>>> 2
>>>> years ago for about £50. I'm sure there are now better models out for
>>>> cheaper....
>>>>
>>>> Let us know what you decide on.
>>>>
>>>> Matt
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 3 February 2011 12:41, Ernie<ernie at linfoot.plus.com>   wrote:
>>>>
>>>>   Hi Everyone,
>>>>> Having been to only a few meetings in the past, I appreciate there are a
>>>>> lot of people who
>>>>> are willing to help with their advice etc.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sadly I having been able to get to as many meetings as I had hoped, due
>>>>> to
>>>>> a variety of
>>>>> seemingly feeble excuses!  Maybe this year...........
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyway, Can I have some advice from the group regarding Printers,
>>>>> scanners
>>>>> and All-in-one
>>>>> devices that work well with Linux - particularly I would like to hear
>>>>> from
>>>>> anyone who is
>>>>> running Ubuntu 10.4.
>>>>>
>>>>> My Canon S820 (its a photo printer with 6 separate ink tanks) is now
>>>>> showing an error
>>>>> message which indicates that its 'Waste Tank is almost full' and it
>>>>> looks
>>>>> like its going to
>>>>> be as costly as a new one :-(
>>>>>
>>>>> Also my current scanner is an old parallel port printer which runs on
>>>>> Windows 98 (and that's
>>>>> almost the only reason for using that OS now.,
>>>>> So I thought it might be worth investigating the current state of the
>>>>> market with regards to
>>>>> Compatibility with Linux.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ideally I'd like a photo printer with separate (5?) ink colours Max A4
>>>>> size, and a scanner
>>>>> with a transparency system. I've got loads of really old family
>>>>> negatives,
>>>>> of varying sized,
>>>>> not just 35mm!
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd love to hear from anyone with their experiences (and problems) of
>>>>> printing and scanning on this great Operating system.
>>>>>
>>>>> Just one word of warning, Although I've been involved with computer
>>>>> since
>>>>> about 1991, and
>>>>> Linux for about 2 years I still regard myself as relatively
>>>>> inexperienced
>>>>> with Linux, so any
>>>>> replies, Please, keep it simple
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for reading this far..
>>>>> All the best
>>>>> Ernie Knagg
>>>>>
>>>>>
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