On Wednesday 23 March 2005 11:19, Doug McGarrett wrote:
At 12:54 AM 3/23/2005 +0100, you wrote:
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Can anyone recommend either of the following for SuSE 9.2?
Epson CX 3600 or Epson RX 420
The SuSE Hardware database seems poor these days.
Thanks, Steve.
If you buy an Epson printer, I strongly urge that you only use Epson inks, even tho they are prohibitively expensive. I had to throw out an Epson after trying to use "cheap" replacement ink. The heads clogged up, and it was useless. Even tho the HP printers are not as fine-grained as the Epsons, the print heads are in the cartridge, and if anything goes wrong, you just buy a new cartridge. (I don't work for, or own stock in HP.)
--doug
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My experience with Epson printer: I read a very good review about a top quality Epson, and then went out and bought it. Great colour photographs. Six months later, due to personal tragedy, I left my printer unused for two months. Although I had only ever used Epson ink the jets blocked and refused to clear. I contacted Epson they told me to continue the clearing technique or take it to a contract servicer (because Epson do not provide support). Well, I used up two ink pots to no avail. Expensive! Then I contacted their support contractor who told me that it would cost me 50 pounds (yeah, not dollars) to look at it, and the over the phone the estimated cost to repair was one pound less than the price I had paid for the printer. A colleague had the same problem. Replacement of the heads cost about the same as the cost of the printer. And, if you don't use the printer quite frequently they will block. So I went and bought an hp. Zero problems; but the main issue here is that the hp ink pots include a new head each time and so if they block you just buy another pot. My colleague also changed to hp. Good luck, Colin