Recent content by ludens

The market peculiarities in Chile are basically these: The companies offer a limited range of models, which are often unique to Latin America, so different models may be available here than in Europe, US, or elsewhere. This is brand-dependent. The stores that actually sell these things will...

Thanks for the suggestion, but I couldn't find any place that sells the Epson WF-7110DTW here. It doesn't even appear on Epson's Chilean website. Also I understand that WF stands for "Workforce", and that this is Epson's line for more intensive use. So if it were available, it would probably be...

The HP 7110 doesn't have a CISS, and uses tiny ink cartridges. The "extra large" color ones hold 8.5ml, which is pretty much the same as the tank size of my harakiri-ed Canon, but those HP carts cost twice as much as the Canon ones! A set of 4 tanks costs US$120 here. I had a quick look in...

I checked on the Chilean Brother website. They claim to offer the J5330 and the J6730. But when I try to use their "where to buy" feature, I get a cryptic error page. I looked at the websites of all stores I know in my area that might carry these machines, and none has them. Only the A4 models...

I didn't know that Brother used piezo heads. That's a good hint. I checked which Brother printers I can buy here, and found that there are eight different models available! But all of them are A4-size, multifunctional (with scanner), with 4 refillable tanks, all use the same ink, have the same...

Ink stained fingers, thanks for that input. So, if I wanted to go the Epson L series route, it would have to be the one costing 940 dollars. Scary! At your intensive use, it makes sense, assuming that the printer is that expensive because it's made for intensive use. But at my use, which is...

Harvey, everything seems to indicate that you are right in that modern printers are designed to fail soon. But I don't understand the logic behind this. It has often been said that the business model behind printers like mine is selling the printers at or below cost, and then earn money on...

My iX6510 commited suicide. After a few years of very light use, flavored by very frequent self-cleaning and copious ink-wasting, the printer suddenly declared Canon's favorite error: The famed B200. This happened when I tried to print the usual nozzle test sheet, which I do whenever I want to...

Hi guys, here's a follow-up on my issue: I'm now leaving the printer on all the time. This pretty much solves the problem, even when using the autoreset chips! The basic behaviour now is that when I want to print something, it prints right away, after printing it fires the nozzles for a...

Turbguy, can you recommend a laser printer that will print in large format (A3+), print good color photos, start up quickly, and be cost-effective when printing, say, 1000 sheets per year? I'm not aware of any such laser printer, unfortunately... but that's my actual need. Roughly 1000 sheets...

Thanks for all the answers! Palombian, I'm indeed a cheapskate in those cases where I think that someone is trying to rip me off. I mean, the equivalent of 1500 Euros for one liter of ink is a little bit stiff... And that's roughly what original ink tanks cost here. Instead I'm not a...

Hi all, has anybody found any way to stop this irritating and stupid endlessly repeated cleaning done by Canon printers? My iX6510 is now four years old. In this time I have printed barely 1142 sheets with it. 29 were photos, most of them in postcard size. The rest was text, almost all of it...

Peter, I couldn't see the enlarged images, as my browser won't load them. I assume some specific thing like Java or so is needed. I have the same problem on some other sites. But the thumbnails give the idea. Clearly the paper is more important than the ink, in those tests. My point is that...

The images in my post above don't seem to work at all! I forgot that my web server has hotlink protection enabled... duh! I made a minimal web page with the images. That one works, at least for me: http://ludens.cl/temp/canonprinter.html Manfred

Mikling, what you say makes a lot of sense. That's what I suspect too. Indeed the pigment of this ink seems to stay pretty close to the surface of the paper. Seen with the naked eye, it looks closer to laserjet toner than to dye ink. When looked at through the microscope, though, I can see...