On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 23:01, John Currie wrote: Hi all comments in OP > G'day all > A friend is seeking my advice on purchasing a printer and scanner > He has looked at the following Budget for two items around $800 > he has iMac with 8.6 > > > HP Desksjet 948C Printer > HP Scanjet 5400C
Most new HP Ink Jets have a new contact system which "damages" the cartridge (the claim the new system gives better print head holder to print head contact. But this limits the amount of time the cartridge can be taken out and put back in (not good if you swap between colour and large black and photo etc) I have a 5400C and only have one grip (could be my firmware revision) when running on USB (both in winblows 2k and FreeBSD) the first scan is great, does not take long once the lamp warms up, but subsiquent scans it sits for around 2 -4 minutes before proceding to scan. I prefer the older scanners, but the ones after the 5400C may have fixed this issue. I loved HP a long time ago, I am just retiring a HP 4L (due to a bad memory module and old age (it is ~ 10 years old and has done over well over 900,000 pages which is good going by todays laser printers standards)) Unfortunately I have no direct experiance with Epson, I do know that for a while they beat Canon and HP hands down on photo images (no one else cam close) but things have probably changed. Regards, Kat. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- K.A.Q. Electronics Software and Electronic Engineering Perth, Western Australia Phone +61 (0) 419 923 731 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
