Wow, I didn't think I'd get so many responses! Thanks so much. I've only had an Epson Stylus years ago and then this HP for the last 5 years or so. Both were inkjet not laser, so I don't know anything about laser printers.
I'm not going to be doing a lot of printing. One thing I liked about my old Epson was that you could do a lesser-quality print like a draft which used less ink if you just needed a reference photo or to print out a list. Or were printing out a walkthrough for an adventure game. LOL! I do photos occasionally, and one thing I really want to be able to do again is print my own business cards. I know it's expensive to do it yourself, but I print them up maybe 40 or 50 at a time and I don't need 1000 of them. The HP is a tray feed so I couldn't make them myself because the perforations would break when it went through the rollers and I'd end up with it all screwed up. There are times when my printer will sit for months unused, and then I'll use it several times. So a printer that clogs easily is probably not a good thing. I also can't spend more than about $100. Boy I'm asking a lot, huh? Now that I think of it I need decent photo printing because I do image transfers that I put on polymer clay as part of my artwork. For what I do it doesn't have to be top quality but it at least has to be decent. On Dec 23, 8:03 am, Bruce Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Dec 22, 2008, at 7:27 PM, D Stubbs wrote: > > > We have run all the invoices for our biz for many years with what to > > me is > > the work horse of printers - the Epson Stylus 740. I think we paid > > $40 for > > it about 9 years ago. > > There's one point I'd like to bring up in here. > > If you print EVERY DAY, these things are major workhorses, and go > forever. If you don't they're clogging nightmares, particularly in dry > climates (either for real like here in the desert SW, or artifical in > a heated space in winter) > > -- > Bruce Johnson > University of Arizona > College of Pharmacy > Information Technology Group > > Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
