Nolan, Thanks or the information. The printer I had that died was an Epson Stylus Photo R220. Aside from the fact that it was very slow by today's standards (after all it was 5 or 6 years old) I had no problem with it.
I haven't ben able to find a currently manufactured Canon that uses the same cartridges as the Canon iP3500 that I have (came free with my newest computer in 2007) so maybe I'll look into hp and see what they have to offer. Do printer manufacturers actually design printers or do they design ink delivery systems? Anne On Mar 16, 2010, at 6:46 PM, Nolan Porterfield wrote: > Anne, > > Please forgive me for sticking my nose in where it probably doesn't belong, > but I thought I'd give you my experience with Epson printers. I've had > several; currently own a Stylus Photo R220, which I bought mainly because it > will print labels on printable CDs. It takes forever for the thing to get > initialized (or whatever they call it these days) -- I could probably go > fishing while it hums and bumps and runs the printer head back and forth. > Most of the time it won't even print the labels unless two little plastic > arrows are aligned with a micrometer (not much of an exaggeration). > > On the other hand, I have an ancient (2004?) hp DeskJet 5150, which I love. > I know that hp printers have been disparaged by others on the group, but if > I forget to turn this one on before I hit the "print" button, it's instantly > ready to go. It's so old they don't make parts for it any more, and I have > to improvise if anything breaks, but I don't mind. After six years or more, > it's always faithful, and uses only two cartridges, so that you know you need > either a "black" or a "color." Perhaps they have made improvements in Epson > printers in the meantime, so if you go that way, I wish you the best and will > overlook my butting in. > > Nolan _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
