Affordable Proofing Printer
Affordable Proofing Printer
- Subject: Affordable Proofing Printer
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 01:31:26 EDT
I had quite an experience with an Epson 820 recently.
One of its many problems, difficulties, short comings, and annoyances was a
complete lack of any possible way to lighten the ink when printing anything.
It printed everything with so much ink, that not only was everything a little
too dark, but printing a photo on heavy brochure paper actually wrinkled the
paper, like it got wet outside in the sprinkler. No matter how many settings
I tried, almost nothing would lighten it up.
Before I returned this printer for other problems, I got the strong
impression that Epson sells a lot more ink than HP, because of a total lack
of Light to Heavy Ink control that the HP printer software does have, AND
because when Epson printers run low on ink (long before they are OUT of ink)
they will suddenly refuse to print any more.
You can keep using HP printers weeks (literally) after the first low ink
message appears. Finally one day there will be white streaks through the text
or photo, but it's amazing how many more pages will print after an HP printer
thinks it's completely out of ink!!!
I was just at a friend's house yesterday. She has an Epson printer that is
absolutely refusing to print because the ink is low. This does seem like the
norm. Is it?
Anyway. I wish that Epson would completely re-design all their software. OR I
wish that HP would add 6 color inks to their line of printers.
Either one of those improvements would be very nice.
Jeff
Sacramento
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