Hello all:
My Canon iP1500 just done serving me very well and I'm looking for advice for replacing it.
I spent the last couple hours here in the forum trying to find answers.
For my needs the 1500 was perfect: my daughters are, sorry, WERE using it. I bought it on January 2005. At the same time I bought on eBay 50 B&W+ 30 color compatible cartridges for about $1.40 each. Since the ink was so cheap and I added the 2 yr extended warranty, I didnt have to monitor how and how much my daughters are using the printer and it saved me nagging and lecturing about wasting ink. Now I need to replace it with one for the same purpose:
1- Quality printing is not a big issue although the 1500 had a very good one and I would like to keep it this way.
2- Speed the same. (Again, the 1500 was VERY satisfying and I prefer it this way)
3- Maintenance, I just needed to replace the cartridge. (Only lately started problems with the waste tank and so).
4- The main point is that I want the printer to be very cheap to maintain (during the last almost year and a half I spent only about $120) and needs to be a workhorse (we use about a ream a month), with fair speed and printing quality. (Is there something like this...)
Oh, I checked on eBay and I can find the 1500 again, brand new, but I am afraid that since I am not buying it from a reliable source or somewhere I can return if somthing is wrong (like Office Depot) it can be an old one that was standing for a long time on the shelf and now the head (or something else, -I just dont know enough in printers-), can be bad.
Any thoughts will be very much appreciated and thanked.
Thanks in advance, Saul
My Canon iP1500 just done serving me very well and I'm looking for advice for replacing it.
I spent the last couple hours here in the forum trying to find answers.
For my needs the 1500 was perfect: my daughters are, sorry, WERE using it. I bought it on January 2005. At the same time I bought on eBay 50 B&W+ 30 color compatible cartridges for about $1.40 each. Since the ink was so cheap and I added the 2 yr extended warranty, I didnt have to monitor how and how much my daughters are using the printer and it saved me nagging and lecturing about wasting ink. Now I need to replace it with one for the same purpose:
1- Quality printing is not a big issue although the 1500 had a very good one and I would like to keep it this way.
2- Speed the same. (Again, the 1500 was VERY satisfying and I prefer it this way)
3- Maintenance, I just needed to replace the cartridge. (Only lately started problems with the waste tank and so).
4- The main point is that I want the printer to be very cheap to maintain (during the last almost year and a half I spent only about $120) and needs to be a workhorse (we use about a ream a month), with fair speed and printing quality. (Is there something like this...)
Oh, I checked on eBay and I can find the 1500 again, brand new, but I am afraid that since I am not buying it from a reliable source or somewhere I can return if somthing is wrong (like Office Depot) it can be an old one that was standing for a long time on the shelf and now the head (or something else, -I just dont know enough in printers-), can be bad.
Any thoughts will be very much appreciated and thanked.
Thanks in advance, Saul
