I have had a half dozen different ones- all died due to either bad design or accidents. (I fell on one and broke the glass...to give an example of "accident").
The best of them all was a Canon- and I would still be using it if I had not managed to clog the print head by refilling cartridges with super cheap off brand ink...
I advise staying away from hewlett-packards- the equipment is good- but the software that comes with HPs is buggy, bloated and prone to really alarming errors and system slowdowns...
Do not under any circumstances get another Epson... They are cheapass built, have the shittiest print quality I have ever seen, and as you have discovered the ink is horribly expensive.
I wish I could recommend the Kodak units...But I got one to try out because of the lure of cheap ink- and found the print quality so poor that took it back the next day and got the top of the line Canon they had. (An MX850). The Canon is not the absolute best print quality I have found-(you need a dedicated printer that does nothing else for the best,) but it does very sharp, solid black as well as any commercial photocopier; which is rare in an all-in-one unit, and its color copying is the best I found in several different machines.
It has individual ink reservoirs, so you do not have to change out an entire unit if the blue is low but everything else is okay.
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Date: 2009-02-12 07:18 am (UTC)I have had a half dozen different ones- all died due to either bad design or accidents. (I fell on one and broke the glass...to give an example of "accident").
The best of them all was a Canon- and I would still be using it if I had not managed to clog the print head by refilling cartridges with super cheap off brand ink...
I advise staying away from hewlett-packards- the equipment is good- but the software that comes with HPs is buggy, bloated and prone to really alarming errors and system slowdowns...
Do not under any circumstances get another Epson...
They are cheapass built, have the shittiest print quality I have ever seen, and as you have discovered the ink is horribly expensive.
I wish I could recommend the Kodak units...But I got one to try out because of the lure of cheap ink- and found the print quality so poor that took it back the next day and got the top of the line Canon they had.
(An MX850).
The Canon is not the absolute best print quality I have found-(you need a dedicated printer that does nothing else for the best,) but it does very sharp, solid black as well as any commercial photocopier; which is rare in an all-in-one unit, and its color copying is the best I found in several different machines.
It has individual ink reservoirs, so you do not have to change out an entire unit if the blue is low but everything else is okay.
-Badger-