RE: RE: (ukha_d) OT Was scan, now Digital cameras

["Phillip Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks ... this just really confirms what I'd decided myself.

I think that the Epson printers are probably better at the Photo-Quality
stuff than the HPs ... however they do not seem well built and in 2000C (in
comparison) is built like a tank and is very quiet. (This is important when
you have a young kid who sleeps in the next room!)

I'd love to see this Olympus P400 printer (A4 Dye Sublimation) but no-one
carries it local to me and even if they did it would be financial suicide
to
have one on demo. They're £1,000 a shot and prints come out at about £4.50
each I think ... however at 305dpi the quality should be good.

Phil

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Morgan [mailto:steve@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2001 5:30 AM
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] RE: (ukha_d) OT Was scan, now Digital cameras


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phillip Harris [mailto:phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 06 January 2001 05:30
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] RE: (ukha_d) OT Was scan, now Digital cameras
>
>
>
> The only thing that I dislike about Epson printers is that in
> my experience
> they tend to sound as though someone is breaking a wad of
> bamboo over their
> knee when you power them up. When I go back to see my parents
> and they run
> up their PC I keep thinking that their printers suddenly broken!
<Snip>

To be honest, I'm sick to death of Epson printers! For some strange reason,
I've made a habit of buying them but hopefully I've broken that now.

I've had Epson dot-matrix printers which were great. I think I've still got
one of their later ones in the loft which I'm sure would be fine if I ever
wanted to use it again.

But...

I've used an EPL4000 laser that went through drums like a mad thing.
I've used EPL7100's which were better but the consumables cost a fortune.
I've got an EPL9000, A3 laser which I'm too scared to use because the toner
cartridge is ?180, if you can find one!
The latest was a Stylus 740. Excellent photo-quality printing. Not
particularly good with text on plain paper. Gets through cartridges in no
time as it spends half the day p***ing ink down a little drain at the
right-hand end of the platter. Then, on Christmas Eve, as I was trying to
print a CD label for some software we'd written as a present, it suddenly
decided it was going to shift two inches to the right whenever it felt like
it.

And don't get me started on the drivers - like, they couldn't be bothered
to
produce native drivers for Windows 95 for the EPL7100 'cos you could use it
in HP compatibility mode [and lose half it's features]!!

On boxing day, I went and bought a HP Deskjet 990CXi. Much quieter, better
print quality (text on plain paper is amazing) and I'm out of the 'Epson
Triangle'!


Glad I got that off me chest!

Steve