cheryl wrote: > Wow, I didn't think I'd get so many responses! Thanks so much. > > I've only had an Epson Stylus years ago and then this HP for the last > 5 years or so. Both were inkjet not laser, so I don't know anything > about laser printers. > > I'm not going to be doing a lot of printing. One thing I liked about > my old Epson was that you could do a lesser-quality print like a draft > which used less ink if you just needed a reference photo or to print > out a list. Or were printing out a walkthrough for an adventure game. > LOL! I do photos occasionally, and one thing I really want to be able > to do again is print my own business cards. I know it's expensive to > do it yourself, but I print them up maybe 40 or 50 at a time and I > don't need 1000 of them. The HP is a tray feed so I couldn't make them > myself because the perforations would break when it went through the > rollers and I'd end up with it all screwed up. > > There are times when my printer will sit for months unused, and then > I'll use it several times. So a printer that clogs easily is probably > not a good thing. I also can't spend more than about $100. Boy I'm > asking a lot, huh?
At the school where I worked we had about 30 Epson 940N (IIRC) printers. Every summer the printers sat idle. Every fall it was a major undertaking to clear out the inkjets. It usually consisted of printing pages with large blocks of cyan, magenta, yellow and black. It usually used up the better part of an ink cartridge. Then it would happen through the year on certain printers that didn't get used often. We later switched to HP inkjet printers. I don't think we had very many of those printers have problems with the ink drying up over the summer or through the year. Another issue we ran into was the Epsons loaded paper from the top rear and the output was in front of that also on the top. You wouldn't believe the stuff we found inside. This was another reason for choosing the HPs, the paper in and out was in the front and the top was completely covered. > > Now that I think of it I need decent photo printing because I do image > transfers that I put on polymer clay as part of my artwork. For what I > do it doesn't have to be top quality but it at least has to be > decent. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
