[Wylug-help] Colour printer buying advice

[James Holden]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 07:55:36PM +0100, Scott Hodgson wrote:
> A couple of points you may want to look into:
> 1: depending on the length left inactive, ink will dry up or clog the 
> droplet holes.

Tends to be worst with Epson, because the print heads are fixed in the
printer, ergo, blocked heads, dead printer.

This is different with HP because the print heads are in the cartridges
- new cartridge, new print head too.

> 2: Both HP and Epson are good for photo work, But for bulk ink supplies 
> or cheaper cartridges Epson are better than HP as they have chips on the 
> cartridge which usually takes longer to crack than Epsons.

I've had numerous problems with generic/refilled cartridges. I always
buy the proper brand ones because they always work 100% and I'd rather
spend a couple of quid extra than waste my time faffing with refill kits
or running page after page of nozzle clean test prints. Life's too
short.

Really - if I'd nothing better to do than p*ss around getting an 'all
lines' alignment print, I'd save the pennies and get refills, but my
time is worth more than that.

FWIY, I've had my HP Photosmart 8150 for 12+ months, using it every now
and again for colour prints and (excellent quality) photos, and it's
only just run out the cartridges it came with.

James

> Andrew J Cole wrote:
> >Louisa,
> >
> >  
> >>Our criteria:
> >>- we won't use it much so it doesn't have to be particularly quick or
> >>heavy duty (we've got an old mono laser printer for when we don't need
> >>colour);
> >>- not too expensive to buy (up to a max of about =C2=A3200);
> >>- not too expensive to run - we won't use that much ink but we don't
> >>want to be locked out because we've not replaced the cartridge every 15
> >>minutes or some other marginally-justified effort to rip us off;
> >>- either laser or inkjet is fine;
> >>- decent print quality - photo quality would be ideal but not essential;
> >>- and, finally an essential: works with linux - ubuntu's gutsy after its
> >>release on Thursday ;)
> >>    
> >
> >In that situation (ie. with a laser for bulk printing) and not too high
> >a requirement for photo quality prints I always go for one from the HP
> >range(s) in fact I always look first at the mukti-function printers since
> >they almost all do stand alone copying, scanning and double sided printing
> >(and Fax?) as standard (and frequently thus solve other problems).
> >
> >If you want better colour quality a modern Cannon should be within your
> >price bracket (but some of them drink ink).
> >
> >But clearly you need to watch out for any special driver s/w requirements
> >even for networked printers.
> >
> >Andrew
> >
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