I've been blessed to stay with the unchipped BCI cart printers, but I am now on my last few of these "golden oldies." I've been looking on Craig's list for the next generation of printers that use the pgi-5 and cli-8 carts to store away for when my bci-6 printers all die.
I just picked up a lightly used ip4300 in really good shape with an excellent printhead ($25) and have a line on an ip4500 that just came up on Craigs list as well ($40). Since I am unfamiliar with this next generation of printers I would appreciate comments on which of these printers is the better on for me to keep. If they are pretty much equal I'll keep both, primarily as spares for my wife who is using my one remaining i960. I am using an ip5000, have a spare unused ip5000 still in the sealed factory box, and an additional spare new unopened ip5000 printhead.
I fear that I am falling into that "printer collection fever" that so many of us have succumbed to! All to keep the refill ink flowing!!!!
I just picked up a lightly used ip4300 in really good shape with an excellent printhead ($25) and have a line on an ip4500 that just came up on Craigs list as well ($40). Since I am unfamiliar with this next generation of printers I would appreciate comments on which of these printers is the better on for me to keep. If they are pretty much equal I'll keep both, primarily as spares for my wife who is using my one remaining i960. I am using an ip5000, have a spare unused ip5000 still in the sealed factory box, and an additional spare new unopened ip5000 printhead.
I fear that I am falling into that "printer collection fever" that so many of us have succumbed to! All to keep the refill ink flowing!!!!