printers

[Yer_Maw]

anyone recommend me a good colour printer? Just want one that doesn't charge a mint for ink refills.

[Yer_Maw]

anyone ever use a Dye Sublimation printer?

[thepigjockey]

Never used dye subs but very happy with my Epson R800. it's meant to be good for colour fastness (important for me, that's why I bought it).

[Sheridan]

lexmark printers are fine.

[love_tempo]

dot matrix printers are the best. nnnnnnnn. zzzzzzzzztttt. nenenenene.

[AVX23]

don't get an hp one - that's my advice.

an yeah - feeling the dot matrix vibe - at least they tended to work - these fangled ones are shite - I miss printer paper with lines and holes in the paper :(

[love_tempo]

Apart from Dot Matrix there's them big sherpa things that can print A1 posters at photographic quality. very nice. probably costs as much as a car and £100 in ink per photo though :(

[julian]

ive got a cannon one... just a cheap one (i think it was about 50 quid)

its 4 carts are individually replacable, and theyre just the carts too - my old epsom one had the print head built into the cart, so replacement of them was expensive.

this one, i can replace the head sepperatly (had to once in maybee 3 years of reletivly low volume use)

carts are about 6-8 quid in shops, or about 3-4.50 on ebay (plus post)

its a 6000 or 6200 or somthing. wont be made any more, but somthing very similar will undoubtably be.

ive been very happy with it - affore mentioned epsom was more expensive to buy, more expensive to run, and broke a lot quicker.

i suspect printers always break a lot quicker than they should. might as well just get a cheap one, i recon...

[thepigjockey]

High end Epsons very good for printing photo's but I expect the cheap ones are less well made. It's shocking when you can sometimes get a new printer for less than the cartridges. Definitely stick with a cheap one if you don' wantdurable quality photographic prints.