The HP's are excellent printers, but don't sell the Epson's short,
they've mostly solved the clogging issue, and there's a cheap fix for
the more modern printers (Windex on a wipe under the heads).
I'm printing 3K B&W on a HP 7660 and BO on a Epson C86 and quite happy
with both. The HP does decent colour too (The C86 is only a 4-ink
printer and thus unsuitable for good colour output)
-Adam
Graywolf wrote:
From what I read in reviews written by long term users the expensive
Epsons clog up too, only difference it that it is cheaper to replace
the print head than to trash it and buy something else. Also Epson
inks never turn out to have the permanence the are claimed to but it
takes two three years for that to become apparent. Then there are the
infamous red lines that seem to be unique to Epsons (I think the head
picks up dust that becomes soaked in ink and drags it across the
paper, at least when I cleaned the underside of the nozzles by running
them over damp lint free paper towels that cured mine for awhile). The
bronzing of the ink. And now the problems with the new semi-pigmented
ink (they do not call them that, but that is what they are, a mixure
of pigment and dye inks). Yes, you hear about problems with Cannons
and HPs but when you read the reviews you get the idea that they are
caused by either defective units, or very unknowledgable users.
But like I said in an earlier post I have found work arounds for most of
the problems with my 820. I could not afford to chuck it and by
something else, or I would probably done the same as you guys. I guess
that means that for a knowledgable experienced user Epsons do continue
to chug along, even the cheap ones.
graywolf
http://www.graywolfphoto.com
"Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof"
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Bruce Dayton wrote:
I concur on the 820 - I threw one in the trash too! My HP 7960 is
so much better. My experience with Epson printers is that the
expensive ones are great and the cheap ones are crap. Kind of sounds
like Canon lenses <grin>.
