On Wed, 04 Dec 2002 22:24, you wrote: > Hi CLUG members, > > Does anyone here have experience using colour printers with Linux? I > read from various sources that Windows might be required to get really > good results printing photos, but the gimp-print pages say that many > colour printers work "perfectly" with gimp-print. I am considering to > buy an Epson, because I had a HP DJ500 before, and the HP always got > problems with blocked nozzles after some time - so let's give the > competitors with the different technology a chance! > > Any comments, reports, experience would be appreciated.
I inherited, i.e. was given, an Epson 600 colour printer basically because the previous owner was sick of the trouble it gave him & he wanted to be rid of the stress it caused him. My own experince with it is not as bad as his, but to be quite honest, I don't thnk I'd want to have another if I had to buy one. I seems to need an aweful lot of cleaning and test cycles before you get a a rough approximation to "the perfect print". I will say though that I have not tried very hard to achieve that "perfect print" on glossy paper with the highest definition possible. My feelings about it can be best summed up as "To get really good output you need to devote a lot of care and attention to the animal". Also do note that HP caught the Open Source Bug for a little while recently, and do produce at least one fully supported "Linux Printer". I forget the number, but a search on the http://www.hp.com page will, I'm sure, produce the answer. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
