Epson vs. Canon

Troy Tripamer said:

Troy

Mike Tichon said:

Troy Tripamer said:

Mike Tichon wrote:
Mike, can you give me a few numbers on the new HPs you are talking
about? For example, the 7150 or what?

Thanks.

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Troy, it's the Photosmart 7350. There is a review of it on Steve's
Digicams site. If you search my name, I posted the link in a
message last night. The only con I see so far on this printer is
that the paper handling is a little clunky, as some old paper I had
jammed in printing. It may be the paper. So far, the prints are
better than what I received from ofoto, which I will never use
again.
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Gabriele Sartori said:

teski said:

I had the Canon S800, and it was a very nice printer. However, I
recently picked up the Epson 2200, and I must say it blows the
Canon away as far as quality. Yes, it's a little slower, but my
prints are so much better. I would not go back to Canon. My
personal opinion though. Nothing wrong with the Canons...Nothing
at all. I just prefer the Epson.

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This is the dilemma indeed, I used epson for 15 years and they
always had the best printing quality, my current little Photo780
does prints that are actually much better than a photo lab. With
the D100 not a single artifact is visible, no droplets, nothing,
just pure perfection.

THe Epson though is terrible to run, I basically changed 4 Epson
during the last 4 years hoping to see some kind of improvment. It
was sad to trash almost new printers that were eating paper all the
time. Now they don't do this anymore but when they went to 2880 dpi
4 picoliters the clogging became endemic. Since I print only during
the weekend, the printer is all clogged every single time. In order
to unclog it I've to run the utility 4/5 times so the ink goes all
down the toilette.

Single tank is a problem too; I understand yours has multiple tank,
but it seems that Epson don't like that and I understand why. Using
an Epson become like a mortgage with money in wasted ink every
single month.

I've such a dilemma, I would like to see the printers just like any
other high tech device, not like gilette. (razors cheap, blades
expensive).

I would like to see a printer that cost what it has to cost but
deliveries consistent good gopies and it is ready to work any time
it. I used HP years ago and it was like that but the printing
quality was inferior to Epson.

p.s. sorry if I started this thread here. I know there is a
specific forum but my problem there is that it is too hard to
separate the kids from the people with experience while here most
of the people invest big bucks on a camera and they like to see
good prints out of their printer...
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Gabriele Sartori

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Gabriele Sartori said:

I love the printing quality of Epson I hate them though in terms of
mechanical quality but in particular the nozzles clogging.
It is basically impossible to use occasionally the Epsons that I
got without having to do long heads cleaning ( a big waste of ink
as well).

So I was thinking to move to Canon, I saw nice reviews about the
S900, now the questions:

1) Is it as good as Epson? I bought always Epson although they were
always disfunctional the printing quality was impossible to match.
Did Canon catch up?

2) Is it always ready to print or I’ve to “wash” the heads every
single time (like the Epson)?

3) Can I use the Epson glossy paper (I have quite a lot in
different formats) ?

4) Is the cost/copy higher or lower than Epson ? (I’m talking
exclusively about photo printing, I use a laser for text)

5) Is the material (ink, paper) easy to find just like the Epson?

Thanks to all of you. BTW is someone has the big Epson and doesn’t
have the problems that I had, let me know please.

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Regards
Gabriele Sartori

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Bimthecat said:

If you can justify the Epson 2200 slow-ness as ok...
...then go back to a Pentium 2 at 400MHZ for Windows, or
a 603e for Mac, and tell me you are happy.

The Canon S9000 at 4 minutes for a 13X19, with STUNNING quality
is certainally something to consider.

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alfred_schiele said:

Hi!

Well, to start with that I am a convinced Epson user as well, for
the reasons you already stated.

I can not quite follow your problems... I use the photo 895
sometimes less than once a week and never had any nozzle problems.
Well, I had a photo 700 years ago I didn't use for 18 month's...
and the black nozzles were not to rescue... but some weeks of no
use never were a problem...

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Gabriele Sartori said:

Apparently Alfred the problem is weather related and it became huge
with the 2880dpi 4 picoliters technology.

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Gabriele Sartori said:

I live in California where the air is very dry. I do have friends
in north Italy and they don't have a single problem, other guys
here in California are upset as I am. If you go on some place like
cNet and see the users' opinions you will se a lot of people upset
for this problem. The problem is so big in my case that even
having the printer there for few hours without printing generates
the issue. I exchanged 2 printers they both got the problem I kept
the second one since it prints soo good. Previous epson got the
problem as well but not as much as 1440 dpi. My daughter has a
entry level 3 colors (+black) and she has less problems than me,
much less. True though that she never prints photos and this
problem is mainly hurting if you print photos.

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