Those were the days when HP was an engineering company. Now it is a marketing
company. From the very best stuff at high prices to, fairly good stuff at
fairly low prices, and buy out all the competitors. The difference between HP
and others doing the same thing is they seem to be fairly good at it.
graywolf
http://www.graywolfphoto.com
"Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof"
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John Coyle wrote:
Keith's experience is close to my own with an Epson Stylus 800. Very
poor ink consumption, and when it got so clogged that I couldn't easily
clean it I went out and bought an HP 1310 triple-function job for A$129
which beats the pants off it for colour and detail. When I first
started in computing all my gear was HP, including an A4 pen plotter I
could program, and I sometimes wish I could still get one of those (I
know, they're probably still used in drafting offices and the like). HP
then had the reputation of producing some of the best quality computers
and peripherals you could buy: my own experience with them was first class.
John Coyle
Brisbane, Australia
----- Original Message ----- From: "keithw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <pentax-discuss@pdml.net>
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 9:59 AM
Subject: Re: Why full frame?
Graywolf wrote:
[...]
Currently my photo printer is a 3 year old Epson Stylus Photo 820.
Slow, expensive to run with Epson ink and paper, cheap with off brand
stuff from ebay. Prints better at 360 than at 720 which makes me
believe that the 2880x720 spec is just advertising crap. It too has
clogging problems for which is is justly infamous. However I have
developed techniques which minimizes that: Print a nozzle check every
week if I am not using it regularly. If it absolutely needs a head
cleaning do one and let it set overnight before doing another nozzle
check. That seems to work as well as doing 10-12 head cleanings which
is what it seems to need if you follow Epson's instructions. Done
their way you use more ink cleaning the nozzles than you do printing.
Makes them lots of money, I guess. BTW, I have fewer clogs with the
cheap ink than with the Epson, although the Epson ink give better
color control.
I had an Epson 820 and it was infamous for clogging it's jets!
I finally couldn't clean a couple of orifices no matter what I did, so
I gave it up to the trash man! Literally! Threw it in the trash
barrel, con mucho gusto!
I promptly got a Canon bubble jet iP 3000 PIXMA photo printer.
I've never been so happy!
It's what my Epson 820 Photo Printer SHOULD have been!
keith whaley
[...]
graywolf
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