On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 18:20:23 GMT, "James Sweet"
wrote:



Epson printer's are pure crap, at least the one's I've wasted my money
on.
That includes the following models:
Epson Stylus Pro and Pro XL.
Epson Stylus 1500 and the later "Colorado" model.
Epson 800



I had an old Stylus Color IIs that worked beautifully and never clogged.
Later I had a Stylus 600 which would clog constantly. I also had a couple
Canon printers that behaved similarly, HP is the only one that seems to be
decent but I got a laser printer for my B&W stuff now and it never clogs.

You were lucky with that IIs. In the early production models of that
printer they were reported to have very stringent QA on the line and
put in better built print heads to start with. Not so on the later
models, they'd gotten their rep established and were only interested
in the bottom line after that.
In the mid 90's and a bit later for overall image quality inkjet was
the only thing cost effective for achieving tonal quality approaching
four color offset for small runs and such though.(I leased a big Xerox
four color laser setup back in 96 on their promises that it'd match
4-color in tonal gradation and overall gamut. Just more sales rep BS
though. Far to contrasty and only poor gamuts to boot.)
Happily today's laser printers are a far cry from then. I'd be using
more myself if the cost per page would only get lower for color.
I've been pretty happy with the results from the plotters we've been
using, especially inregards to cost per page.
I'm currently testing a six color thermal ink plotter one of my reps
loaned me and am much impressed with it's output.
Now if he's only telling me the truth about the low cost of the
cartridges it might be worth the price tag.