We are looking to replace an ink jet printer in our office. The fiscal year changes over on July 1, 2003 so I'm starting to do the research now so I can be ready to order next month when the old budget coffers get filled.
We currently have Epson 1270 and 1280 printers and they have served us very well. The plan is to retire the 1270, which is now beginning to get leaky and act up a bit. My initial thought was that it was obvious to replace it with an Epson 2200 (we do need the 13 x 19 capability).
However, two things have made me start to question these initial thoughts.
First, I downloaded Epson's "updated" drivers for the 1280 that supposedly let you use the borderless feature in OSX. What a joke. I haven't gotten it to make a borderless print yet - and the fact that one printer seems to now be a half a dozen or so to accommodate options that should be available in a single driver but aren't. Epson's feeble drivers and support, or lack of support, for OSX don't exactly foster customer loyalty in my eyes. Yet, their printers make excellent prints once you get them tweaked to your system and preferences.
Second, is that a month or so ago my printer at home died. I was going to replace it with a cheap Epson 82C until I saw the output of the Canon i950. I spent the extra coin and am not sorry I did. The prints it is capable of making are truly remarkable and I think that its 8x10 prints surpass those from the Epson 1280 in the office. Plus...the driver seems to be a bit more user friendly. I wonder why Canon doesn't seem to have the problems with OSX that Epson seems to have?
So - I was wondering if anyone in this group uses, or has seen output from, one of the relatively new Canon i9100 printers that make 13 x 19? If so, can anyone compare it to output from the Epson 2200? The Canon i950 does not print text quite as sharp as the Epson printers and I am assuming that the i9100 would print text similarly. The primary function will be for photographic images, but we do have occasion to make prints and proofs of page layouts and such that contain text, vector graphics as well as images. How does the Epson 2200 do with text? And finally, the Canon is about $200 cheaper than the Epson, but I'm more interested in getting the printer that will best suit our needs and produce the best image quality.
I'd be very interested in reading any and all opinions or thoughts on either printer.
Thanks, Ben
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