Which printer

[Seweryn]

Hi,

I would like to buy a printer for general home use (text, some photos,
prints on tick paper like postcards, bussiness cards etc.). The most
important is print quality (it can be even very slow). What you can
recommend? I think about Epson C86, Epson R200 or something like that. What
is the difference in practice between two of them?

Thank you,
Seweryn

 

[Wayne Youngman]

I would like to buy a printer for general home use (text, some photos,
prints on tick paper like postcards, bussiness cards etc.). The most
important is print quality (it can be even very slow). What you can
recommend? I think about Epson C86, Epson R200 or something like that. What
is the difference in practice between two of them?

Hi,

I'm looking for a printer too. That Epson R200 looks quite nice actually,
it can also print direct to CD which is a handy feature. I think the R300
is the same but with added flash-card readers, and a little LCD display. I
don't know what is different about the C86, but I think it's a new model,
the old one was C84 I think. . . .

Of course we are just talking EPSON here, what about HP and CANON, they both
also produce great printers. I heard the HP Deskjet 5150 (£70.00) is meant
to be a really good printer for the money. I also heard that the CANON i865
(£127.00) is reeaallllly good.

hehe so much choice so little time!!

 

[Seweryn]

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hehe so much choice so little time!!

Exactly. Too much options.

Seweryn

 

[Pete]

Being in the inkjet and laser repair business since 1991, I highly recommend
HP laser and inkjet printers. Recurring cost are so much less expensive for
toners & inkjets. You can still buy parts for the oldest inkjet and laser
printers and very easy to repair. When Epson & Lexmark printers fail, you
might as well just throw them in the trash. Pete

 

[Douglas]

Recurring costs are less with HP? What have you been smoking? While HP
inkjets are ok,Canons are usually less expensive to operate! Also,it usually
does not make sense to repair most sub $100 printers,even if you could get
the parts! I would recommend the Canon i860!

Being in the inkjet and laser repair business since 1991, I highly recommend
HP laser and inkjet printers. Recurring cost are so much less expensive for
toners & inkjets. You can still buy parts for the oldest inkjet and laser
printers and very easy to repair. When Epson & Lexmark printers fail, you
might as well just throw them in the trash. Pete

 

[Wayne Youngman]

"Douglas" <.> wrote
I would recommend the Canon i860!


Hi,

is the i860 new then? I thought it was the i865 that was the baby!! Tell me
this, what is the latest CANON A4 Bad-Boy photo printer?

many thanks

 

[lew]

"Douglas" <.> wrote
I would recommend the Canon i860!


Hi,

is the i860 new then? I thought it was the i865 that was the baby!! Tell me
this, what is the latest CANON A4 Bad-Boy photo printer?

many thanks

The "latest" for Europe/Britain would be the Canon PIXMA ip4000 which also
does direct to cd-r/dvd (trade-off w/duplex-capable(?)). Possible of
other models later?

The North America version doesn't have cd-r/dvd printing but it does
have built-in duplex (nice).

Canon's website also has the "compare models" of their own stuff like
other vendors do.

 

[Douglas]

The ip4000 replaces the i860,but is a few dollars more.I recommended the
i860 because it is in the same price range as the Epson R200.If one wants to
spend another $40-50,the 4000 would be a nice unit.The 860 is the US version
of the 865.

 

[lew]

Is the diff "that" much? I went the cheap route in getting the
ip3000 for $100 ($99.97) as the replacement for the dead epson 820.
The duplex printing is nice & interesting! The back side is printed
bottom-up!

I have a feeling the "driver" is doing paging prior to sending the
info to the printer; found that one cannot be too much in a hurry to
get the page after printing the 1st side as the paper really doesn't
fully come out in the output tray as after a pause the paper is retracted
prior to printing the duplex side.