Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Computer Learning -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: shadowman who wrote (47242)	8/12/2005 12:38:47 PM
From: Magnatizer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110635

shadowman, Will the printer be used for photo printing? If so, I would think about going to a 6-8 color model. ht Mag

To: shadowman who wrote (47242)	8/12/2005 10:53:24 PM
From: Gary H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110635

Well I had a bad experience in that, the colours were not coming out right and during the clean and deep clean process the printer quite. Nada. Canon sent me a new printer (it was only 7 months old) and a new print head. This would only print black, no colours. Canon wanted me to pay for the shipping back to them. No way. I spoke to a couple of people and got the run around. Finally as a last ditch effort, I ran hot water on the print head. Now the black, blue and red printed but not the yellow. I called Canon back and convinced them that it was a faulty head. They will send me a new tested print head, next week. Bottom line,,, I have been without printer for two weeks. Am I happy? NO!

To: shadowman who wrote (47242)	8/13/2005 5:39:36 AM
From: Cisco	Respond to of 110635

Shadowman, a few months back I was looking for a printer that produced color 8X10 color prints for hanging along with a draft mode that I could use for most of my printing to save money and speed up the process. I chose the Epson Stylus R800. I couldn't be more pleased with it. It is an 8 cartridge system with two blacks, one for photos and one for everything else. Also one of the cartridges is a gloss optimizer cartridge which puts a great finishing touch on gloss photos. The printer also does borderless prints. The draft mode is very fast and I find the quality good for a draft mode. The R800 may not be the cheapest way to go, but I find that it produces top notch photos. My mom now has several prints of her grandchildren hanging in her house that I scanned and printed. You can't tell them from the professional photos hanging next to them. I used Epson Professional Premium Semigloss Photo Paper or Espon Premium Glossy Photo Paper to print them. You might want to check the reviews on it. CompUSA was the only store I found that kept it in stock locally. Opps! I just saw it was for a "back to school relative." This printer is probably out of the back to school budget range unless you plan to keep it and give them your old one!<g> I will leave the post up, in case anyone else is looking at photo printers.