Our Brother telephone/fax/answering machine has not been sending
facsimiles at a good quality level. Printing a received fax is fine,
but recipients who receive quality faxes from other people receive
mine with a two inch, oops! 5.08 cm wide blank strip to the right of
centre. Cleaning doesn't seem to change that.
And so - I bought an Epson Stylus Office TX600FW. It won't print on
CDs so I will have to continue with my Avery Inkjet Media labels.
There does not seem to be a guten driver for the printer so the
dialogue window for the printer is the traditional Epson style so you
don't know what dpi level is being used at the various options.
However, to date the few scans and prints look very good.
Initially I could not use the provided scanner software and had to
access the scanner through Photoshop Elements. I contacted Epson
Support by phone and got a very helpful person who after checking set
up with me suggested I uninstall the Epson Scanner program, restart
the computer and then reinstall the program. I'm using wireless so
ran through the set up once more for the scanner after the reinstall
and it worked. Big thank you to Epson Support.
Two faxes sent to one of my sons, one BW one colour, and both gave
very good quality.
Thanks for all the comment on my first choice the R290, but Brother
and Canon seem to dominate in most stores I visited. I eventually
found Epson at Tandy and Dick Smith. Neither Tandy nor Dick Smith
had the R290 so I bought the TX600FW from Tandys.
One down side to the new acquisition is that I cannot use my Epson 35
mm Film Adapter for scanning slides on it so I will have to keep my
old Epson Perfection 1260 Photo scanner. The TX has card slots,
ethernet and usb ports only.
Merv
I also have a photo R290 and have had no problems either with paper
jams or printing to CDs. Although inks are not cheap I suspect that
per page printing is cheaper than my previous Canon and definitely
cheaper than my HP.
Barry
On 04/07/2009, at 11:14 AM, Kaye and Geoff wrote:
This is very reassuring news. The review said clearing a paper
jam was difficult and might shorten the life of the printer if it
occurred frequently. It also said placing the CD was not straight
forward - but I guess that comes with testing.
We found that working out how to get the CD in was a bit
non-intuitive, but once we sorted that out it was not difficult and
worked well. We do not have to do anything special to "line up" the
disk and we use the Mac software provided with the printer.
Geoff and Kaye
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