I am simply conveying my experiences. I have no experience at all from the US.
I never tried Xerox. I haven't even seen one here.
I didn't mean to say the head cost more than a new printer, just that the cost was so high that it wasn't motivated to change it.
I never buy from E-bay. Previous treatment I got from that company is a serious discouragement.
>>>None of this addresses what's really needed, a dedicated, well-made printer with large, refillable tanks and an easy-to-clean head.
I agree with you, but the old HP and Canon printers seems to still work well, if you can find one. If you could put one of those new continuous ink system on one, we may come as close as possible to what we need. My present tanks are about 200 ml for each color, and you just squirt in another 100 ml bottle for a $1.50 when it gets low. It gets quite cheap.
Maybe the solution is to keep buying cheap printers and use them with the "pirate" continuous ink flow systems. There are some really big tanks you can buy and the ink is reasonably cheap. It seems like some ink cartridges cost more than the printer.
My first ink jet I used around 1993, and it was a Canon I think, a fairly small, gray, flat thing you could carry with you and that could only print in black. It was very messy though.
The first time I got to use an ink jet was about 35 years ago, but that was an experimental contraption in a university.
On 21-Dec-2010 9:03 PM, Brian Yarvin wrote:
> I read a few articles on the web, and just as on this list, it turns out
> that the old printers are the best. Old HP especially it seems. The new
> ones are designed to be money making scams, to make you spend huge on
> maintenance, and ink cartridges, and a new printer ASAP.
Rolf:
While I trimmed your post, I read every word of it and I ask to rest assured that I took it all
very seriously.
I have been printing with inkjet printers for over a decade and color laser printers for about a
year and have experienced just about all that you say. Indeed I agree, newer printers just
seem to have more features that enhance the bottom line of printer manufacturers rather
than consumers.
While I don't make "photo" prints, I must print out doucments that contain many photos on an
almost daily basis and the build quality of printers is my biggest issue. I too, wish for
something solid, easy to maintain and with supplies that are inexpensive in quantity. The
closest thing to what I want in quality are Xerox solid ink printers, but their cost is even higher
than color laser and almost certainly approach inkjet per page.
My experience differs with yours only on one point; Canon will replace jammed print heads in
the U.S. without demanding the sorts of evidence your repairman told you that you needed.
And while they say that the print head costs more than the printer, you can almost always find
replacement heads cheaply on Ebay.
None of this addresses what's really needed, a dedicated, well-made printer with large,
refillable tanks and an easy-to-clean head.
Brian Yarvin
Author, Educator, Photographer
http://www.brianyarvin.com
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