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August 19, 2006 at 2:40 pm #1038938
I’m after a new PC printer at the moment; a decent quality inkjet one. The main output will be normal text documents with a bit of spot colour and the odd photo or two (i’ve already got a small dye-sub for photo quality prints) so I’m looking for something that performs well on normal plain A4 paper…
I have always found HP printers to be good in the past but I’m looking at one with 4 seperate ink tanks rather than 1 black plus 1 colour. The HP “officejet” printers that used to be issued by the Civil Service providers with 4 colour ink tanks always seemed to have duff colour balance and make the pictures too dark though.
A shame as otherwise they were decent robust printers.
anyone got any suggestions (perhaps the HP ones have improved?) I’ve got a Canon laser printer at work and that seems OK so maybe Canon is worth a try?
August 19, 2006 at 2:54 pm #1086974i’ve had a samsung (laser) printer for 2 years… it’s B&W, but obviously they also do colour printers as well
it’s pretty robust and the quality is very high
August 19, 2006 at 3:49 pm #1086975colour balance on hp was not the best :groucho:
i have personally used/own
epson colour laser – ok if you take the time to adjust the settings :groucho:
hp [dont like them] [cranky things – dont like old paper, damp paper [its daaamp here]
canon BJ series [great photo real colour with special tanks; bottom of the range ones are robust and can be used with non proprietary inks and take a real thrashing :wink:]
xerox thermal wax transfer printer [ the doggy’s doodahs but expensive to acquire :crazy:]
brother laser [mono] real workhorse – we sold it on to someone else after 4 years of abuse and they ran it into the ground [ could no longer get replacement drums for it when it ran out…:wink: 2-3 years more continuos abuse ]have also maintained and watched others thrash
star lc 10s [dinosaurs now]
epson inkjet [cartridges seem to run out pretty fast]
brother MFC printer [dont bother with it]what are you going to print on it mostly and how often are you going to use it?raaaraaaraaaraaa
August 19, 2006 at 3:54 pm #1086969it would mostly be letters and proofs for presentation type graphics and DTP – say an A4 sheet with mostly black text, some vector graphics in spot colours and the odd photo…
perhaps printing 100 or so pages every month…
August 19, 2006 at 3:57 pm #1086976i will go and ask my mate who services printers what he recommends if you want?
i assume that bombproof and cheap to own/run would be the main criteria?
and do you prefer inkjet or laser? [laser looks better for official documents / dtp proofing ][ and doesnt smudge if it gets wet!]
any idea what you would be prepared to spend?
/me is full of questions today :groucho:
August 19, 2006 at 4:00 pm #1086970raj wrote:i will go and ask my mate who services printers what he recommends if you want?i assume that bombproof and cheap to own/run would be the main criteria?
and do you prefer inkjet or laser? [laser looks better for official documents / dtp proofing ][ and doesnt smudge if it gets wet!]
any idea what you would be prepared to spend?
* raj is full of questions today :groucho:
yep, looking for something thats robust and consumables aren’t too expensive… looking for an inkjet around £150 price range max (got access to several mono laser printers at work already)..
August 19, 2006 at 4:13 pm #1086977ok
will grill my mate and get back to you; is quality of photos important? :groucho:
August 19, 2006 at 4:19 pm #1086971raj wrote:okwill grill my mate and get back to you; is quality of photos important? :groucho:
For this printer black text and spot colours are more important – but I’d want reasonable quality on plain paper (same sort of quality as a colour newspaper) and slightly better quality on inkjet specific paper (the 100gsm sort of paper sold in the office supplies shops).
if it can match the quality of a photo printed out on a normal HP Deskjet that would be fine…. already got a small dye-sub printer (really good quality but price per photo is quite high, about the same level as conventional film)
August 19, 2006 at 4:21 pm #1086978:obey::obey::obey::obey::obey::obey:
August 20, 2006 at 12:03 pm #1086972did a bit more research and looking at one of the Canon Pixma MP or ip ranges with the separate colour ink tanks….
August 20, 2006 at 12:58 pm #1086979ok
i will ask about them….:groucho:
August 20, 2006 at 1:08 pm #1086980Ive got a spare canon s9000 A3-Photo prints are fantastic,as are text and graphics,but the thing costs a fair bit to run,6 seperate ink tanks at 6-11 quid each.look it up and PM Me if its of interest to you.
August 20, 2006 at 1:24 pm #1086973GoodDoG wrote:Ive got a spare canon s9000 A3-Photo prints are fantastic,as are text and graphics,but the thing costs a fair bit to run,6 seperate ink tanks at 6-11 quid each.look it up and PM Me if its of interest to you.thanks for the offer – at the moment the running costs (and size of the machine!) could be a sticking point.
TBH if I had the money I’d get this but I don’t print that much A3 or photo content to justify it any more.
Sadly I haven’t had that much time for creative stuff at the moment as my times taken up by bean-counting…
OTOH remind me if you haven’t sold it in a couple months time. My employers are expanding and setting up a training centre and I might be able (although I can’t promise it) to convince them to buy the thing….
September 7, 2006 at 2:10 am #1086982I always like lexmark printers for daily use, but HP lasers are good for heavy use.
September 7, 2006 at 10:34 am #1086981General Lighting wrote:thanks for the offer – at the moment the running costs (and size of the machine!) could be a sticking point.TBH if I had the money I’d get this but I don’t print that much A3 or photo content to justify it any more.
Sadly I haven’t had that much time for creative stuff at the moment as my times taken up by bean-counting…
OTOH remind me if you haven’t sold it in a couple months time. My employers are expanding and setting up a training centre and I might be able (although I can’t promise it) to convince them to buy the thing….
Its actually potentially usefull as a spare,though to be honest Im fairly sure that just getting the odd A3 done at Jessops or somewhere works out cheaper,which is what I tend to do for photos these days.
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