From: "John Beamish" 

My needs are not exacting.

I'm running WinXP and it just runs.  The quality is quite adequate (for an
ink jet) for business purposes -- but I wouldn't pretend that it's the
right printer for a large, professional office that deals in graphics.

When my i550 died from severe abuse (it didn't survive a four foot drop), I
bought an iP4200.  It uses an upgraded ink cartridge (so far
un-refillable).  I bought it to print my usual stuff and some photos for V.
 As it turns out, she can take a memory card from her camera down to the
local drug store (seriously) where they generate prints for about the
retail cost of photo paper so I use my printer to print project schedules,
PowerPoint presentations and other stuff.

On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 23:42:54 -0500, Gary Britt
 wrote:

> How good are the Canon printers?  How are their drivers?
>
> Gary
>
> John Beamish wrote:
>> Or buy a Canon and refill your ink cartridges.
>>  On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 21:10:31 -0500, Gary Britt
>>  wrote:
>>
>>> Klipsch makes speakers that die after a certain date?
>>>
>>> This sounds like a lousy practice, but HP's inkjet printers and their
>>> software drivers are still some of the best printers around so what's
>>> one to do?  Buy a lesser quality printer with overpriced ink
>>> cartridges?  Buy HP printer and go with 3rd party brand ink
>>> cartridges?  Maybe this chip stuff is about shutting out 3rd party ink
>>> cartridges?
>>>
>>> I've got a pefectly good brother laser printer that originally cost
>>> $140. They don't make that model any longer, but a very similar used
>>> to be more expensive model now sells for around $80 on sale.  My
>>> printer needs a new toner cartridge, and they want $85 for a
>>> replacement cartridge at the same store where the newer used to be
>>> more expensive model sells for $80 including a toner cartridge??!!!
>>>
>>> WTF?
>>>
>>> Gary

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