Printer problems
Aug. 4th, 2006 12:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
avramY’know what’s kinda annoying? The item on the left is a Canon printer, a model I own, the Canon S330. The item on the right is a digital camera I don’t own, the Canon S330.
Because there just aren’t enough possible combinations of letters and numbers for Canon to come up with different naming schemes for their different product lines.
Also what’s annoying is that I use the printer very rarely, yet it seems as if it’s running out of ink after two or three pages. Probably the print head’s getting gummed up with crusty ink. There are cleaner heads you can buy, but Canon doesn’t (as far as I can tell) make one, and I can’t find them listed on Amazon. In fact, all the listings I see are from companies low enough on the food chain that my rip-off sense is tingling.
Which has me thinking about buying a new printer. Something that can print on 3x5 index cards would be nice. But the printer market has turned really weird compared to what it was like when my sense of what printers ought to do was being formed, back in the ’80s and early ’90s. Back then, printers were mostly aimed at printing business documents (or zines, or RPG character sheets) on paper. Now they seem mostly aimed at printing photos for the home market. And it’s hard to find one that doesn’t have a copier and scanner bundled in.
And speaking of scanners, hot damn, 4800 dpi! I may need to get one of these babies.
Because there just aren’t enough possible combinations of letters and numbers for Canon to come up with different naming schemes for their different product lines.
Also what’s annoying is that I use the printer very rarely, yet it seems as if it’s running out of ink after two or three pages. Probably the print head’s getting gummed up with crusty ink. There are cleaner heads you can buy, but Canon doesn’t (as far as I can tell) make one, and I can’t find them listed on Amazon. In fact, all the listings I see are from companies low enough on the food chain that my rip-off sense is tingling.
Which has me thinking about buying a new printer. Something that can print on 3x5 index cards would be nice. But the printer market has turned really weird compared to what it was like when my sense of what printers ought to do was being formed, back in the ’80s and early ’90s. Back then, printers were mostly aimed at printing business documents (or zines, or RPG character sheets) on paper. Now they seem mostly aimed at printing photos for the home market. And it’s hard to find one that doesn’t have a copier and scanner bundled in.
And speaking of scanners, hot damn, 4800 dpi! I may need to get one of these babies.
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Date: 2006-08-04 10:42 pm (UTC)This is true of inkjets. Perhaps you should look into a cheap B&W laser printer? I bought a low-end Brother unit a few years back*, and like it a lot. Compact, quiet, cheap, and after two tax returns and moderate use in between it is just now finishing up its original toner cart.
"And it’s hard to find one that doesn’t have a copier and scanner bundled in."
Tell me! I decided to get a color printer again, to make pieces for games. None of the local usual suspects (office depot, target, local electronics chain) had a printer-only unit. I finally spotted a low-end HP model selling for $30 at a "Big Lots!" close-out joint. I also picked up an ink refill kit . . .
Stefan
* Tax season, 2003, when my Epson inkjet died. "Died," as in "smashed to pieces in a dumpster after getting into a mode where it refused to acknowledge that its print head was clean after a dozen cleaning cycles which chewed through an entire brand new ink cart."