[SML] Fwd: refill inks for plotters

[Dave Tosti-Lane]

Once you get up to the more expensive ones, like the 3880, they are pretty
fabulous for printing photos though. Yes, ink is expensive, but so is paper
if you're going with a clay coat, and the Epsons have really good profiles
for all the best papers (I particularly like the Hahnamuhle Photo Silk
Bayrta). All ink jets are a pain if you're only doing occasional prints
though. The cheaper Epsons work great for a short period, but I agree
they're a PITA in general.

Dave Tosti-Lane

On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 12:05 PM, Jon Ares via Stagecraft <
stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Chad Croteau <cpcroteau at bell.net> wrote:
> > Are you by chance using an Epson printer?
> >
> > I've owned HP, Canon and Epson printers, and by far the WORST of them was
> > the Epson.  Crazy expensive cartridges, and TERRIBLE page yield per
> > cartridge.
> >
> > The best I've had were the Canon printers.  I own a Canon Pixma Pro900
> and
> > printing 13x19 full colour photo quality pages, I can get about 15-20 per
> > set of cartridges.  Doing regular page printing for documents and such, I
> > can get dozens of full colour 8.5 x 11 pages or about 100 b&w pages of
> text
> > at high quality.
> >
> > I'm not an expert, but your yield sounds incredibly low.  Recycle the
> > printer and get something else.  Would a colour laser printer make more
> > sense, given how little colour you actually use?
>
> Heh... yeah, I will *never* buy another Epson printer as long as I
> live. I use a laser printer for all my day-to-day printing (which
> still isn't much) but on those occasions where I need color, I'm using
> a Canon Pixma MG6320 (because I need to print DVDs or CDs on
> occasion), and an HP Officejet 7000 for 11x17 at home.  (At work I
> have an HP 450 plotter.)
>
> Friends Don't Let Friends use Epson. (Unless they're independently
> wealthy, and appreciate printers that will jam and bits of plastic
> will break off, as well.)
>
>
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