Need new printer

[Gene Heskett-3]

Greetings;

My old and very faithful Epson C82 has apparently lost its printhead, it has
plenty of ink according to mtink, but every time I clean the heads, fewer
nozzles work, and the amanda backup report was printed without ink this
morning.

So, I brought up from its storage in the basement, a 5 year old C88 I had
bought to use when I was on the road, but its out of yellow ink after about
10 passes at cleaning its well dried nozzles.  So I'm going to town,
ostensibly to get some ink, taking nearly a two pack of all 4 inks for the
C82 with me to see if a tradein might be arraigned, either for some inks for
the C88, or a whole new printer.

I will not consider a lexmark due to their attitide vis-a-vis linux and their
corporate structure being very top heavy with lawyers.

I've always been fond of Epsons, so which of the current models on the shelf
can do good photo quality work at a reasonable cost for expendables?  By
reasonable, that is in comparison to the about $80 USD for a full set of
tanks for the old C82, and probably very similar pricing for the C88's inks.

Is there some other favorite Golden Boy that also claims archival inks that I
should also look at while I'm at Staples later this afternoon?

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[Bob Meetin - www.dottedi.biz]

I can't speak to the latest models, but I have an Epson Stylus Photo
R-200 and for scanning an Epson Perfection 4490 Photo, also a lcd
projector.  The printer works with my linux pc which is one of the
reasons for purchasing epson.  I bought all as refurbished, through
whatever is the refurbished link on the website.  Zero problems with any.

The scanner comes with rigs for scanning transparencies and negatives up
to 6x7cm.  I jerryrigged a system to scan my old 4x5" negatives and
transparencies, then assembled in GIMP.

-B

Gene Heskett wrote:

> Greetings;
>
> My old and very faithful Epson C82 has apparently lost its printhead, it has
> plenty of ink according to mtink, but every time I clean the heads, fewer
> nozzles work, and the amanda backup report was printed without ink this
> morning.
>
> So, I brought up from its storage in the basement, a 5 year old C88 I had
> bought to use when I was on the road, but its out of yellow ink after about
> 10 passes at cleaning its well dried nozzles.  So I'm going to town,
> ostensibly to get some ink, taking nearly a two pack of all 4 inks for the
> C82 with me to see if a tradein might be arraigned, either for some inks for
> the C88, or a whole new printer.
>
> I will not consider a lexmark due to their attitide vis-a-vis linux and their
> corporate structure being very top heavy with lawyers.
>
> I've always been fond of Epsons, so which of the current models on the shelf
> can do good photo quality work at a reasonable cost for expendables?  By
> reasonable, that is in comparison to the about $80 USD for a full set of
> tanks for the old C82, and probably very similar pricing for the C88's inks.
>
> Is there some other favorite Golden Boy that also claims archival inks that I
> should also look at while I'm at Staples later this afternoon?
>
>  

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[Chris Mohler]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...> wrote:

> I've always been fond of Epsons, so which of the current models on the shelf
> can do good photo quality work at a reasonable cost for expendables?  By
> reasonable, that is in comparison to the about $80 USD for a full set of
> tanks for the old C82, and probably very similar pricing for the C88's inks.

Not an Espon, but I have a Canon Pixma somewhere around here that is
very nice in one regard: the ink tanks are clear plastic and have
liquid reservoirs (no cotton).  The printer shines a light through a
prism at the bottom to determine ink level - therefore refilling them
is painless.  It prints a decent photo also, if you buy nice paper.  I
quit buying Epson after they decided that a cartridge had to be
replaced after X number of prints.

My 0.02
Chris
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[Norman Silverstone-2]

I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that it is cheaper to have my
photos printed by one of the on-line organisations than to pay the
exorbitant prices charged for inks. A set of inks for my Epson Stylus
Photo R300 is over £50 which is a lot of commercially printed photos and
that's without the cost of paper.

Norman

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