on 11/2/02 3:48 PM, (PCI PowerMacs) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Try an HP OfficeJet G85. This machine makes >> photos on Plain Paper that are virtually identical to the photo. >> I own an HP G85 (which is a recently discontinued model), >> a 560C, a 550C, a Lexmark z53, an Epson 850, and an Epson 900. >> The old HP printers (550 & 560) aren't very good at photo printing. >> But the Epson print heads clog very frequently, >> and the band of ink along the left margin of the >> 900 is very annoying. >> My G85 prints color photos with incredible >> clarity, better than my 900, cuz the >> G85 print heads have not yet clogged. When, (in the future) >> they do clog, new cartridges will provide new print heads. > > What do you do when the Epson's heads clog? I mean I have a 600 in my > basement > that came from some charity stuff from my church (everyone got a little > something > :)), and has the same problem the other one had (the one I bought new but then > later sold) It drove me nuts, really, but the most upsetting thing is that I > spent my savings in it back them it cost me $259 :-| > > Anyway it does the same thing, the printer could swear its printing a whole > bunch > of stuff but nothing comes out. If I can get this thing to work maybe I could > use it or sell it. It seem this happened to a lot of people not just me and > they > just got rid of them. > > Liliana Epson's, use'em or lose'em. That's just the way it is. I've never seen any other printer that can equal the output of an Epson. I made the mistake of trying to conserve with my old Epson 600 and paid the price of a clogged printer. You should at least print the test pattern once a week with older Epson's, the new ones use a ton of ink for the test pattern. I don't know what was wrong with the old test pattern of fine parallel lines. I've been using ink4art.com cartridges for 2 years in my 740 with no problems at all but it's used virtually everyday. The free 820 that came with our eMac is also been trouble free but we use fairly often too. There are dead head cleaner cartridges available for most Epson's.
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