-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 06 June 2003 9:13 am, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 12:08, bis9170@cox.net wrote:
Anybody have any particular recommendations for a good quality, SuSE 8.2-complient printer? I'm looking at a good deal on a Canon S330 Color
A tech that repairs our printers said to stay away from Canon ink jet printers. He said "they are junk". Haven't used one my self. I have a Lexmark Z52 that has worked quite well. YMMV
I've got a canon S600 -- conceptually, I like the thought that the color tanks are seperate [helpful if you print "lots of a given color"] but it was stated [and seems to be holding up] that color usage tends to be uniform anyway. I *tried* an ink-refill solution [from a vendor I trust very well] and it ended up a complete mess -- the ink simply "drained right through" [not viscous enough?] so perhaps I did something wrong. I found, however, that "printrite" makes a compatable cartridge for a few dollars less, and it seems to be OK *except* for the black -- if I don't actually use the printer "for a while", the black ink turns green (!) [somewhere I've heard that you should print "at least one page a week" to keep things like this from happening] I don't know if it is a driver issue or not, but it seems that I cannot get the "on-screen" colors to match "printed" colors [red tends to look orange, blue tends to look purple, etc., and no, I didn't "mix up" the cartridges, at least, not so far as I know...] But back to the original rebuttle point: Canon printers "are just junk", well, what do you expect from a printer that costs perhaps $30 nowadays? [which is especially sad since a "full refill" kit -- one of each color + black -- runs about $45. This is such a "problem" that the ink cartridges you get "with" the printer are often "half filled" or less; and worse, the dealer will hit you with a "consumables" clause in their refund process that allows them to deduct the full price of replacement ink, regardless of whether or not you actually opened the ink cartridges...] - -- Yet another Blog: http://osnut.homelinux.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://osnut.homelinux.net/TomEmerson.asc iD8DBQE+4NdEV/YHUqq2SwsRAmExAJ4yuP+ADQtxvdzxuiIwgfyj/PKXZwCeLpy6 KxGGM4ES/Wzxn3ORjA1kKMk= =knGJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----