John, After my last two Epsons kept clogging, I finally went the HP route too. I have been much happier with overall usage of this printer (7350 - six color) including feel (touch) of the prints and their hardiness. Once dry, they seem to be nicer than the Epson prints - this is all using the manufacturer's paper and inks. As far as image quality is concerned, they are very close - I suspect very slight edge to the Epson, but you would have to do a side by side to notice.
--- Bruce Sunday, October 26, 2003, 3:30:47 PM, you wrote: JF> After much to-and-froing, my own Canon/Epson/HP decision finally JF> got resolved in favour of HP. It's only six-colour (not their JF> latest eight-ink unit), but the biggest difference there would JF> be if I did a lot of black-and-white printing. JF> The single biggest factor was my fear of printheads clogging JF> if the unit sits unused for a month. At least on the HP all JF> I need to do is replace the ink cartridge (and if I know that JF> the printer isn't going to be used for a while I can take the JF> cartridges out and store them in a ziploc bag). I also like JF> the fact that HP seem to have standardized on one regular set JF> of print cartridges for all their various models, so if I get JF> a smaller printer as well as the wide-format I would only have JF> to have one set of ink cartridges in use at any time. JF> The Epson would be my primary choice for print lifetime, but JF> it's twice the cost of the HP ($799 instead of $399). That JF> difference buys me quite a few reprints.
