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My first printer ever was a HP deskjet 850C, which worked over 6 years until it died by spitting one of those tiny rubber wheels used for moving the paper inside (and out) onto my feet. Needless to say, the prints were kind of "lacking substance" (as in being printed on paper) afterwards.
So I got myself another HP (forgot the model, sorry), which lived exactly one month over its guarantee, then it decided to die dramatically by pouring the content of its recently replaced black ink cartridge into my desk (via its platine of course); which meant a) scraping about 35 ml pigmented black ink out of my desk (luckily as black as the ink) and b) finding a new printer.
Both my HPs produced good color pictures and neat black text at good speed and a (for an inkjet) reasonable prize, so I stayed with them and got a HP photosmart 1115. Pics and text were fine as before. Unfortunately, it died the same way as the second, though it did so onto my living room carpet (in case you want to know: 3 x 3.5 meters of hand-tufted off-white wool! (I never again complain about Hi-Gloss cleaner; it saved that carpet (and my a55 from a pissed off grandmother!))).
Now I have a shiny new Canon Pixma ip4500 in glossy black lacquer (I'm so going to see every fingerprint & dust particle on it - might be useful in reminding me to clean in time). It's a bit bigger than my old HP and setting up was slightly more complicated, but the test prints looked great and I'll be able to replace the color ink cartridges color-by-color not all-colors-at-once. I do a lot of bluish art work, so that should save me some money, too. (And if Canon's die by barfing ink onto carpets, at least it's going to be LESS INK than what comes out of the fat all-in-one HP cartridges!).
So I got myself another HP (forgot the model, sorry), which lived exactly one month over its guarantee, then it decided to die dramatically by pouring the content of its recently replaced black ink cartridge into my desk (via its platine of course); which meant a) scraping about 35 ml pigmented black ink out of my desk (luckily as black as the ink) and b) finding a new printer.
Both my HPs produced good color pictures and neat black text at good speed and a (for an inkjet) reasonable prize, so I stayed with them and got a HP photosmart 1115. Pics and text were fine as before. Unfortunately, it died the same way as the second, though it did so onto my living room carpet (in case you want to know: 3 x 3.5 meters of hand-tufted off-white wool! (I never again complain about Hi-Gloss cleaner; it saved that carpet (and my a55 from a pissed off grandmother!))).
Now I have a shiny new Canon Pixma ip4500 in glossy black lacquer (I'm so going to see every fingerprint & dust particle on it - might be useful in reminding me to clean in time). It's a bit bigger than my old HP and setting up was slightly more complicated, but the test prints looked great and I'll be able to replace the color ink cartridges color-by-color not all-colors-at-once. I do a lot of bluish art work, so that should save me some money, too. (And if Canon's die by barfing ink onto carpets, at least it's going to be LESS INK than what comes out of the fat all-in-one HP cartridges!).
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Date: 2007-09-29 16:28 (UTC)From:Seriously though, congrats on your new printer! I hope you have better luck with this one.
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Date: 2007-09-29 16:53 (UTC)From:Thanks. And I hope the Canon lives long and prospers. ;)