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Who Loves Their Printer?

MacDawg said:
I love my Epson Stylus PHOTO R200
Inexpensive, and great quality for me on everything, including photos

Woof, Woof - Dawg
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Have you had any success printing to CDs/DVDs?

Artful Dodger said:
Hello, I've had a HP all-in-one (hated it), currently have an Epson R300 but only for dvds/cds, but the best printer I've had/have is my Canon i960. It prints great pictures and if the BW picture is set up right they look great. I couldn't be happier with it. 😀
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I wish I had the same luck with my Epson and printing CDs/DVDs. I bought an R200 just for that purpose and after much trial and equal error, following directions perfectly, it has yet to print onto a single DVD.

mcgarry said:
A couple years ago or so (don't remember exactly) I bought a Canon i450. It was, without a doubt, the best printer I have ever owned. It never gave me any problems, I mean that. This thing was great. Fast enough for me, good text quality, and evening amazing photo quality for the price.
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My i450 has been great to me too. My cousin got one and she's had no troubles either.
 
Printers the past 5-10 years have gotten very cheap, HP & Epson alike. They are very sensitive and will be prone to subtle damage that causes permanent jamming-- at this point repair will cost more than what you paid, so I just junk & buy a new one, more expensive & a different brand hoping for quality, but I'm always disappointed.

The office laserjets of the early 90's were indestructible compared to the printers of today. They're all just vehicles for ink disposable sales.
 
i love my Epson stylus photo R300. its quick, quiet and amazing quality. oh and it has a handy media card reader on it!!
 
I have a Canon IP 5000 (Pixma) and it works great! I have also heard nothing but good things about the IP 4000.

CD printing, duplex printing, photos – everything works great, and the ink seems to last much longer than on my old Epson printer (880) which sadly died on me a couple of months ago . . .
 
Kirk said:
...the ink seems to last much longer than on my old Epson printer (880) which sadly died on me a couple of month ago . . .
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i had an Epson stylus 880 that died on me a few months ago also, and that also used to drink ink like there was no tomorrow. also, very expensive to get refills for!
 
My first Epson colour printer that I bought back in 1995-1996 (When I got my first PC) was brilliant. It was giant and slow but it had goof quality (at that time 720dpi) and lasted for like 5 years. Then we bought a new Epson styles Colour printer about 1-2 years ago and it was a piece of s***. It would jam and the quality was rubbish and the ink would run out quickly and cost a fortune.

I now have two Lexmark printers a laser (E220) and an All-in-one (fax, copier, scanner, printer - X6170). They have been ok but I wouldnt rave about them. The ink for the E220 is really expensive and I do a lot of printing. I would really like a better printer. I would recommend them over Epson any day (but thats not saying much)

Stay away from Epson (especially the lower end models)!

Its a pitty that no-one shows as much of an obsession/love with a brand of printer like they do with their Apple hardware. 🙂 Doesn't anyone make good printers these days 😕
 
Rod Rod,
Have you had any success printing to CDs/DVDs?



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Originally Posted by Artful Dodger

Hello, I've had a HP all-in-one (hated it), currently have an Epson R300 but only for dvds/cds, but the best printer I've had/have is my Canon i960. It prints great pictures and if the BW picture is set up right they look great. I couldn't be happier with it.
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If you want to e-mail me I will send you a pic. of the dvds I have done with the R300. Also I used Magic Mouse for a few, also I found using hub printable dvds work best. At first the line up was off/didn't work but I didn't "read" to select cd/dvd on the printer itself 😱 Last when you do get it to work spray some Krylon artist (clear) spray to seal the ink 😀
 
Artful Dodger said:
Rod Rod,
If you want to e-mail me I will send you a pic. of the dvds I have done with the R300. Also I used Magic Mouse for a few, also I found using hub printable dvds work best. At first the line up was off/didn't work but I didn't "read" to select cd/dvd on the printer itself 😱 Last when you do get it to work spray some Krylon artist (clear) spray to seal the ink 😀
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I believe you. I'm just envious that you got yours to work. I guess I can give it another go. I'll email you for the pictures though. Thanks! 🙂
 
My printer got me an A+ on my last report.

HP Deskjet 5550

I used a picture and it printed amazingly well with quality set to medium, and my teacher with bad eyes saw it all perfectly.

Plus, my report was the only one besides one other person who did not have any lines in the text.
 
Rod Rod, or to anyone else that has had problems with cd/dvd printing or is thinking about one of these printers.
I went through the process last night and had some troubles myself 😎
well thanks to my girlfriend the printer setup for "paper" size has to be set for A4 and not letter. Then choose the cd/dvd print setup, if you have the R300 one must also pick the cd/dvd print on the little window on the printer as well (3 steps instead of 2).
I hope this helps for anyone having problems or needs to adjust the prints on the cd/dvds. 🙂
 
I have a hp 1012, and its awesome.. the toner lasted me like a year and a half...i also have a color laser that i got like two months ago, and its pretty good, and reasonable price too..
 
I've had great luck with my HP LaserJet 1300n, which serves four Macs (three Panther, one Jaguar) and a PC (XP Home).

It's a pretty pricey piece of kit, but the toner is affordable compared to ink jet and it's a quality monochromatic laser.

Before it I had a LaserJet 1000 -- it didn't like Macs, wasn't network, and had a door problem, so I donated it to the university and got the 1300n, which has given me no grief whatsoever. It has Rendezvous and that works well.
 
I have an Epson R200 printer and I love it.

I use it to print DVD's and it comes out amazing. I use Taiyo Yuden silver matte inkjet printable 8x DVD-Rs. Sometimes you have to manually guide the DVD tray into the printer for it to work, but hopefully the next printer revision will make it easier.

Epson R200 comes with the EZPrint CD software, although passable, it's a good program that needs a bit of fine-tuning.
 
I've had a series of HPs, 970CXi, 990, 995, all of which gave crap colour rendition and all of which died. I now have an ageing Epson SC3000(A2) and an Epson R800, both of which are very good with colour, and the R800 is good on CDs too. HP lost my vote years ago.
 
Lexmark sucks. Their drivers for the Mac? *puke*

I have an HP, it works great. The form factor sucks - very bulky - but what the hey, I got it for free, so I can't complain!
 
Epson C86

I needed a bargain printer that would work with my Airport Extreme and just do basic work (i.e. no heavy duty jobs or high-end photo printing).

The Epson Stylus C86 that I got a couple of months ago fits the bill perfectly!
 
I will be going to uni this autumn and as well as getting a new iBook (when the next rev comes,) I will need a printer. What is the best cheap printer around at the moment? (Really what is the best cheap & small printer, as space will be at a premium)
Thanks for any help
 
My two penneth worth...

My home printer is an HP 960c and it's always been reliable enough – a good balance of value and print quality. It's fast, doesn't swallow ink like it's going out of fashion and the print quality is good enough for my exacting standards!
 
timmyb said:
I will be going to uni this autumn and as well as getting a new iBook (when the next rev comes,) I will need a printer. What is the best cheap printer around at the moment? (Really what is the best cheap & small printer, as space will be at a premium)
Thanks for any help
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With any luck Apple wil still have a good promotion on their printers with the purchase of a new computer. Right now you get a $100 rebate on certain Epsons, which equates a free printer if you get a C86. I have an epson C62 and I can not really say good things about it. My printer jams paper like it is its job and guzzles Ink like a my college buds guzzle free beer. The quality is Okay, but the ink is expensive. The cool thing with the new models is you get seperate ink cartridges, so if you do not do any or little color printing you can just worry about the black ink. I believe the new epson have larger higher density black ink cartridges which last a lot longer. Hey, if you can get one for free, you can always use the rebate check when it shows up two years later and buy a printer you really want 😀
 
Macaddicttt said:
I've heard good things about Epson, but I've had nothing but trouble with them. I've had at least two of their printers just die on me. I've always had good luck with HP. Cannon would also be a good way to go, I guess, although I've never had one of their printers. For me, I just stay away from Epson.
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My epson stylus color 740i is still kicking and works great but I have to say since then I have had 3 newer epson models die within the life of my old epson which still works great. I have to say that My new love of printers is the canon line. The i960 is great and the new iP5000 (I think it is $179 regular price, but I am used to getting edu discounts) is absolutely awesome!!!!! Check it out on the apple store it has nothing but great reviews their also.

As for HP the deskjet used to be a joke a long time ago and I haven't touched it since... It used to come down to why buy more print cartridges when for about the same price you can get a new printer. Since the deskjet used to die after every 1 or 2 refills of ink. I warn anyone reading this that this is from the OLD (First models) of the deskjet when colored ink was cool. and we were using win 3.0. I now look back and laugh at those days...
 
HP-1215 Photoprinter for me. A dog to get osX to recognize -- must repair permissions after installation -- but once fixed, everything prints wonderfully.

Make sure you have paper formulated for HP inkjet ink else you won't get what you expect.
 
I used to have an HP 3822 (budget inkjet) which was pretty good under OS9 but the drivers for OS X are crap. There's no 2-sided printing, so trying to save paper often resulted in wasting more when the crap-box picked up 2 sheets on the "odd page" run. The utility sometimes rejects refilled cartridges, a real pain in the arse when the cartridges are as expensive as HPs. Also, be aware of this:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/23/hp_cartridges/

The solution? For me, at least, is a Canon. My ip5000 is excellent. The ink tanks have no electronics (they're in the cradle that holds them) and they're made of clear plastic so you can see when they're getting low. Not only this, but there's a seperate tank for each colour so you get to use every drop of ink, a very real advantage if you're as tight as me and as concerned about resources. I even buy the Canon inks now as they're reasonably priced. It does duplex printing with perfect results every time and prints CDs and DVDs.

AND it does all this while looking good, everything closes up when not in use to leave a sleek, dustproof, black cuboid. In short, I love it.
 
All the All-In-One machines suck. They can't do one thing good, and make all things(scanning, printing...) with bad quality. At least this is my observation.

I love my HP DeskJet 5150! It is inexpensive and has perfect quality printing! Several years ago I had a HP LaserJet 4L, which worked for lots of years without ANY problems, and perfect printing quality(documents and stuff, not photos or graphics🙂). I like HP's printers. The only thing bad about them is the higher ink costs and stuff like that...
 
Don't think anyone has mentioned Kyocera laser printers? I've got an FS-1010 and it hasn't missed a beat in two and a half years.

I'm not a fan of inkjets or multi-function printers - you end up buying too many cartridges, worth more than the printer 🙄.
 
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