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Epson "ink is low" ripoff
Now you all have got me scared!
So what printers do you recommend that a 1. GNU/Linux compatible 2. robust, rugged, worry- and care-free 3. excellent in printing quality 4. low in running costs and consumables 5. reasonably priced? Lux |
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On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 08:07:01 -0400, "Dave C." wrote:
Canon makes some very good printers, especially for printing text. Just beware of the model that have the same dpi specs as the epsons, they're running epson print engines under the hood.( 1140x720 dpi etc...) Do you have a source for that? If it's true, I'll have to cross Canon off my list entirely. But I suspect you are mistaken, as Epson and Canon are direct competitors. Canon has been making their own bubble-jets so long, it doesn't make sense that they would need to borrow inferior technology from Epson. -Dave I'm sure back about 4 years ago Canon contracted with Epson to make the print engines for a line of their "photo-printers". They were easy to spot, their specs matched the Epsons exactly.(1440x1440, 1440x720 etc...) Just stay away from those models. I use a Canon bubble jet for text work(BJC1000) and have a BJC6000 that I use for some basic color work. Like it because it has seperate ink tanks for each color eliminating waste. They went with Epson's pezio engines because they did produce better image results for photo work at the time. Thermal inkjet technology has since caught up and even passed pezio now so that may be a thing of the past.(I did notice that they Canon's that used Epson engines didn't sell much.) Didn't take long for word to get out about Epson's crap. I have an Lexmark Z41 that does decent photo work for a low end inkjet and it is reliable as well.( seldom have to do much more than run a single cleanup sheet after long sits.) |
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On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 01:23:36 GMT,
(The little lost angel) wrote: On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 08:07:01 -0400, "Dave C." wrote: Do you have a source for that? If it's true, I'll have to cross Canon off my list entirely. But I suspect you are mistaken, as Epson and Canon are direct competitors. Canon has been making their own bubble-jets so long, it doesn't make sense that they would need to borrow inferior technology from Epson. -Dave Canon makes the engine for at least one other brand of laser printers so I doubt they would outsource their bubble jet design. While I know bubble jet != laser, but logically it doesn't make sense for them to be doing that, would it? Actually the bubble jet technology of the late 90's was inferior to the pezio for dithering fine detail. That's why Epson had the fine art and graphics market then. Unless you wanted to breakout of the consumer market abd go with something like Encad/Novajet plotters and some very expensive dithering software. Or go Dyesub, thermal ribbon or top end laser. Canon was desperate to capture at least some of the photo-inkjet market. Their color inkjets of that period did horrible photo reproduction, kind of looked like very grainy film prints. an Epson with just 720x720 in photo reproduction mode produced a very passable image on good photopaper. Getting them to do it consistenly was another issue altogether tho'.(I wasted as much paper and ink trying to get mine to work right as the final production run.) A sure killer if you're trying to make money with them. If you look at the Canon lineup for 99 and I believe 2000 you'll see alot of their top end inkjets matching specs with comparable Epsons. A dead giveaway. Pizeo is a different technology than standard thermal inkjet. all other manufacturers used the thermal process for it's advantages of being reliable and easy to produce.(bubble jet is just Canon's trade mark name for their thermal ink jet.) Epson patented the Pizeo process to lock all others out of producing similar printers. Canon had no choice but to contract for the Epson print engines. |
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On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 23:02:23 GMT, Never anonymous Bud
wrote: Fresh from an Iraqi prisoner interrogation gothika smirked: I'm sure back about 4 years ago Canon contracted with Epson to make the print engines for a line of their "photo-printers". They were easy to spot, their specs matched the Epsons exactly.(1440x1440, 1440x720 etc...) Nope, all the Canon engines are based on multiples of 600. Only Epson has multiples of 720. The number of nozzles is also greater in the Epson, though it really doesn't make the print any better. Do you REALLY think Canon would produce something for another vendor that would allow that other vendor to claim better numbers than Canon could?? Erm, I think you misread him? He was saying Canon got Epson to make the stuff for them, so the 720 numbers were corect indications they were Epson engines... :P -- L.Angel: I'm looking for web design work. If you need basic to med complexity webpages at affordable rates, email me Standard HTML, SHTML, MySQL + PHP or ASP, Javascript. If you really want, FrontPage & DreamWeaver too. But keep in mind you pay extra bandwidth for their bloated code |
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gothika wrote:
On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 01:23:36 GMT, (The little lost angel) wrote: On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 08:07:01 -0400, "Dave C." wrote: Do you have a source for that? If it's true, I'll have to cross Canon off my list entirely. But I suspect you are mistaken, as Epson and Canon are direct competitors. Canon has been making their own bubble-jets so long, it doesn't make sense that they would need to borrow inferior technology from Epson. -Dave Canon makes the engine for at least one other brand of laser printers so I doubt they would outsource their bubble jet design. While I know bubble jet != laser, but logically it doesn't make sense for them to be doing that, would it? Actually the bubble jet technology of the late 90's was inferior to the pezio for dithering fine detail. Don't recall exactly when my canon BJC-8200 came out but it doesn't exibit any of that grainy mess the earlier bubble jets had. It looks as good on photo paper as the epson prints I've seen and I'm printing from 30MB down sampled scans (the original scans are over 300MB) from 4X5 transparencies so I'm pretty picky about the output. :-) -- Stacey |
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gothika wrote:
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 08:07:01 -0400, "Dave C." wrote: Canon makes some very good printers, especially for printing text. Just beware of the model that have the same dpi specs as the epsons, they're running epson print engines under the hood.( 1140x720 dpi etc...) Do you have a source for that? If it's true, I'll have to cross Canon off my list entirely. But I suspect you are mistaken, as Epson and Canon are direct competitors. Canon has been making their own bubble-jets so long, it doesn't make sense that they would need to borrow inferior technology from Epson. -Dave I'm sure back about 4 years ago Canon contracted with Epson to make the print engines for a line of their "photo-printers". They were easy to spot, their specs matched the Epsons exactly.(1440x1440, 1440x720 etc...) Just stay away from those models. I looked at canon's site and none of their printers match epsons numbers, they are now at 4800X1200 for most of their better (over $99) printers. Maybe at one point they did this but I don't recall it and as I said my BJC-8200 from just a few years ago makes really nice prints and isn't an epson clone. -- Stacey |
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A. L. Meyers wrote:
Now you all have got me scared! So what printers do you recommend that a 1. GNU/Linux compatible See www.linuxprinting.org See the Samsung ML-1710 laser printer. Somewhat low resolution. I find that the included cartridge is rated at 1000 pages. Replacement cartridges include a new drum and are rated at 3000 pages and cost $71 shipped (2.4 cents/page toner cost). Has been as low as $80 after rebates. See also the ML-1750. HP LaserJet 1200 if you can still find one. HP LJ 1300. Brother 1440 or so laser printer. Also www.newegg.com - shop by category - printers - search (keywords: laser linux) |
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