On Nov 2, 2009, at 09:52 , Ken Waller wrote:
Kenneth Waller
http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f
----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Franklin" <[email protected]
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Subject: Re: My Last Epson Printer?
Cotty wrote:
My S9000 is still going strong and using genuine Canon inks and
Ilford
paper, the results still thrill.
My Epson 820 is still going strong, too, and I'm still able to get
Epson inks for it.
Hah!
My 12+ year old Epson Photo Stylus continues to pump em out. No
problems getting inks.
Finally had to dump my old EPS 800 when it stopped working this year.
Sad. Now I have to crank up my old Apple Laserwriter 3500 for black
only printing. I can't see spending so much money on Epson ink to
print a letter or invoice. And now that Apple has ceased to support
AppleTalk in Snow Leopard, when I do upgrade I will have to put
together some kind of Ethernet to parallel contraption to fool the
printer, if I've read correctly.
The iMac has no output for serial or parallel, and the printer expects
everything to come packetized within AppleTalk or Ether-Talk over
various cable types, serial, parallel, Cat5, AppleTalk Mini-Din-8, and
422. SCSI input for external font storage and queuing on a network.
And I bought two of the darn printers (they are very good) 5 years ago
for $15 each, and a toner cartridge for $100. They print up to tabloid
size for less than $.05 a sheet. My other Laserwriter I bought for my
G3 laptop, and it's Appletalk only (mini-din-8).
The difference is that Epson makes money on the inks and they see
the drivers as an expense. It doesn't seem to occur to them that I
need a driver to use the inks.
Joseph McAllister
[email protected]
"Gaudeamus igitur, juvenes dum sumus..."
http://tinyurl.com/ndmfhb
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