I've had an HP 7960 for quite a while. As long as you use HP papers and can live with the HP driver software, it works very well. HP ink carts and photo papers are expensive. However, fitted with the $56 black cartridge and printing text documents, it runs a LOT of pages per cartridge.
HP software is not very flexible for this model and I've never found a way that I could either add customized paper profiles or select them for use in a color managed workflow. For me, the only way to use it for photos is to use HP Premium Glossy paper, output managed by ColorSync, where I make the assumption I'm working with about a #3-4 Kodabromide glossy paper for the B&Ws. I've used it occasionally to make catalog pages (where the requirement was a glossy 8.5x11 inch page). Godfrey On Nov 19, 2007, at 6:39 AM, cbwaters wrote: > I've ranted about my dissatisfaction with my Epson stylus photo 925 > before. > I replaced it on Saturday. > We had tickets to see the Police last night. We'd purchased the > tickets > online so I had to print them out. I did this as soon as we made the > purchase but something was up and it printed all goofy so we > couldn't read > the important information (like where to sit). I waited until last > week to > decide to print them again but then we were out of paper. > Wife got us some paper on Saturday morning so I tried printing but > guess > what? It's out of black ink! > No way I was paying for ink again. That thing had me up the wall > and this > was the last straw. > > So now I have a HP that scans and copies (Photosmart c6280). It's > not rated > too high on cnet but meh, who knows? It can hardly be worse. It > has six > ink cartridges so, presuming they are actually available > separately, I can > just buy blue if that's what's gone... we'll see. > > Now... I really need to figure out how to calibrate and profile so > I can > print some decent photos. Maybe there's an online tutorial or > something > somewhere? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
