Canon i860 vs. HP 5150 story

[History Fan]

Last week, I purchased the HP 5150 inkjet printer. I choose HP because
I had been happy with an older HP printer. To make a long story short, I
encountered several error messages when printing, and after checking several
issues, was told by HP that my 5150 probably had a hardware defect. I also
thought the printer had a flimsy construction.

So I returned it, and instead of getting another HP 5150, I went to a
different store and was recommended the Canon i860. What a difference. The
Canon printer has a much more solid design, many more features, the software
powering the printer uses less system resources, and it has 5 ink cartridges
vs. HP's 2. Of course, the Canon is also more expensive, but if the quality
holds out I won't mind.

 

[Taliesyn]

Last week, I purchased the HP 5150 inkjet printer. I choose HP because
I had been happy with an older HP printer. To make a long story short, I
encountered several error messages when printing, and after checking several
issues, was told by HP that my 5150 probably had a hardware defect. I also
thought the printer had a flimsy construction.

So I returned it, and instead of getting another HP 5150, I went to a
different store and was recommended the Canon i860. What a difference. The
Canon printer has a much more solid design, many more features, the software
powering the printer uses less system resources, and it has 5 ink cartridges
vs. HP's 2. Of course, the Canon is also more expensive, but if the quality
holds out I won't mind.

You mentioned that the HP holds 2 cartridges. Two cartridges, yes. But
that color one hold three colours. Technically you have a 5 color
printer vs a 4 color one.

I have the older i850 which only has 4 colors (in 4 cartridges,
naturally). Excellent printer, though it shows some banding in photos
sometimes, depending on the type of photo paper used.

I refill my own and the i850 is a solid printer that has never clogged.
It produces excellent text quality. But because of the slight banding
I'd like to move up to an i960 next time.

-Taliesyn

 

[History Fan]

Of course, I've only had this printer for a few days, so my opinion
could change later on. But right now, the Canon i860 is performing quite
well. I'm glad I listened to the salesperson at BestBuy.

 

[FredBillie]

<< From: "History Fan" [email protected]
Date: Mon, Jul 5, 2004 12:34 PM
Message-id: <[email protected]>

Last week, I purchased the HP 5150 inkjet printer. I choose HP because
I had been happy with an older HP printer. To make a long story short, I
encountered several error messages when printing, and after checking several
issues, was told by HP that my 5150 probably had a hardware defect. I also
thought the printer had a flimsy construction.

So I returned it, and instead of getting another HP 5150, I went to a
different store and was recommended the Canon i860. What a difference. The
Canon printer has a much more solid design, many more features, the software
powering the printer uses less system resources, and it has 5 ink cartridges
vs. HP's 2. Of course, the Canon is also more expensive, but if the quality
holds out I won't mind.The software that comes with the i860 is not bad either, particularly, "Easy
Print". I was surprised to find that it would remove red eye WITHOUT selecting
the offending eye first.