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Pete's printer
Finally got jack of cheap inkjet printers with a choice of expensive refill cartridges or messy refill kits. I've been promising myself for a long time that the next one I got would have those refillable ink tanks, and today I went and got one.
Canon i560 which just happened to be the most convenient model in Dick Smith's when I went in. Apparently it has a high print quality and ppm - and my initial experience is that it's a lot better in both departments than my previous models - but I'm really pleased with the ink system.
It's got four cartridges, one each for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and a big Black, you can see how much ink is in each cartridge and you can refill them seperately by just peeling back a bit of tape and squirting in a resupp. The cartridges themselves are fairly cheap, about $10 each, and they don't come with those bloody built-in print heads.
I was saving a tonne of money by refilling my cartridges, and had found a supplier of decent sized squirter bottles, but it was the colour carts that were pissing me off. You never know just how much to put in of each colour, and as the cartridges are opaque, the only way to know when it's full is when ink starts dribbling out the other end, and after a few reloads the bloody things start to run into each other and the resulting colours aren't what they could be. Plus no matter how careful I am, I usually wind up with a few drops of ink where they shouldn't be.
Of course, I could eliminate the mess by buying a new cartridge each time I ran out, but although black is easy enough, the colour carts always have one colour running out first, so you are chucking away perfectly good ink of the other two colours in the same cartridge, and the damn things are expensive enough that after a few goes you've spent more than the original cost of the printer in replacement ink cartridges.
I had a Lexmark that was a lovely printer, but fair suck, just one set of replacements was more than the dam' thing had cost me, so it's languishing under the house because IBM cleverly designed it to be unrefillable.
I was thinking of getting one of those all in one jobs, but they don't come with ink tanks, so it's the same problem all over again when you run out of ink, and that's just more hassle than it's worth.
Anyways, this thing was a reasonable price, it's got a USB port on the front for direct printing of pictures from a digital camera, a few software goodies and the reviews I've found on the net seem to be pretty positive.
I managed to install it successfully despite having dozens of windows open and blatantly ignoring the set up instructions about turning bits on and off, so it's pretty bombproof. Comes with USB and parallel ports, and all in all I'm well pleased with it.
Pete, keen on "no-fuss" printing
Canon i560 which just happened to be the most convenient model in Dick Smith's when I went in. Apparently it has a high print quality and ppm - and my initial experience is that it's a lot better in both departments than my previous models - but I'm really pleased with the ink system.
It's got four cartridges, one each for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and a big Black, you can see how much ink is in each cartridge and you can refill them seperately by just peeling back a bit of tape and squirting in a resupp. The cartridges themselves are fairly cheap, about $10 each, and they don't come with those bloody built-in print heads.
I was saving a tonne of money by refilling my cartridges, and had found a supplier of decent sized squirter bottles, but it was the colour carts that were pissing me off. You never know just how much to put in of each colour, and as the cartridges are opaque, the only way to know when it's full is when ink starts dribbling out the other end, and after a few reloads the bloody things start to run into each other and the resulting colours aren't what they could be. Plus no matter how careful I am, I usually wind up with a few drops of ink where they shouldn't be.
Of course, I could eliminate the mess by buying a new cartridge each time I ran out, but although black is easy enough, the colour carts always have one colour running out first, so you are chucking away perfectly good ink of the other two colours in the same cartridge, and the damn things are expensive enough that after a few goes you've spent more than the original cost of the printer in replacement ink cartridges.
I had a Lexmark that was a lovely printer, but fair suck, just one set of replacements was more than the dam' thing had cost me, so it's languishing under the house because IBM cleverly designed it to be unrefillable.
I was thinking of getting one of those all in one jobs, but they don't come with ink tanks, so it's the same problem all over again when you run out of ink, and that's just more hassle than it's worth.
Anyways, this thing was a reasonable price, it's got a USB port on the front for direct printing of pictures from a digital camera, a few software goodies and the reviews I've found on the net seem to be pretty positive.
I managed to install it successfully despite having dozens of windows open and blatantly ignoring the set up instructions about turning bits on and off, so it's pretty bombproof. Comes with USB and parallel ports, and all in all I'm well pleased with it.
Pete, keen on "no-fuss" printing
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My dad was bugging me about what I wanted for Christmas, and since there really wasn't anything I wanted or needed, I told him a printer. So, now I have another Lexmark. It uses different cartridges, and I haven't tried to refill them yet--I'm going to be really upset if they can't be refilled.
But, I like the idea of separate tanks, and I will go that route next time.