Fading isn't such an issue with HP printers as the ink is different. Epson and Canon use dye based ink which does fade. HP uses pigment based inks, which are far less likely to fade.
Need help to find a printer
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Kin.I'm not that bothered by how light fast printed ink is. I mainly only do A3 printing for presentations then it gets binned or stored away in a dark portfolio. But thanks for the offer.
It would however be interesting to see your machine used to test samples from each different printer makers own inks to see how they compare.
The best light fast inks are dye sublimation printers, but those are very expensive for home use.
Sounds like the complete opposite of Retr0bright. Do you have any Ataris that might fancy a run through the machine? ;-)
OK, I'll grind those into small enough pieces, then Merl put those pieces in the UV chamber, then we treat the surfaces with retr0bright and some aluminium oxide mixed in.
Interesting experiment, I like it!
:nod::twisted:The HP printers (series 7600) give you no access to the printhead. They are offered with lifetime warranty on the head assuming that you do not dissasemble it.
Have left it for more than 6 months idle and yesterday the photos came out rocking in colour.
Have left it for more than 6 months idle and yesterday the photos came out rocking in colour.
If you still haven't made your mind up about printers, have you also considered a colour laser printer?
Now before you think they are shockingly expensive to buy and to run with toner cartridge prices, this is no longer the case. Around the £100 mark are a couple of great colour lasers worth considering.
The Samsung CLP-315 costs £97 inc VAT. It is a small nicely designed printer and produces some great results. Print speed is also good as 14ppm for b/w and 4ppm for colour. It also produces some very nice colour prints, even for photographs, although lasers are never truly designed for this compared to an inkjet.
Consumables are also quite affordable too. A new waste toner bottle every 6,000 prints costs £6, and a black and colour toner imaging kit costs £85, which does some expensive and about where you think toner carts are priced, but this kit allows 24,000 b/w pages and 6,000 colour pages to be printed. So it has years of life in just the one set of toner cartridges. Probably never actually needing to be replaced in most home uses.
The only thing against the Samsung is that it is USB only. No networking ability. Although you could share it from a networked PC, or with a printer supporting NAS share it that way.
The other colour laser printer worth looking at is the Dell 1320cn costing £116 in VAT. This is also a fairly nice looking unit but larger than the Samsung and noiser in operation. It does produce results slightly better than the Samsung though, including photos. Its print speed is also faster. Averaging 15ppm.
However its consumable costs are higher. Image drums every 20,000 pages costing £99, whereas the Samsung has the same drum for life. And its toner carts cost £47 for b/w and £61 for colour and don't last as long.
It does however have usb and Ethernet support so can easily be networked.
Personally for home use the Samsung is a great solution and I'm tempted to buy one myself. With the Dell being better suited to heavier use for home office users who need to print a lot each month.
Now before you think they are shockingly expensive to buy and to run with toner cartridge prices, this is no longer the case. Around the £100 mark are a couple of great colour lasers worth considering.
The Samsung CLP-315 costs £97 inc VAT. It is a small nicely designed printer and produces some great results. Print speed is also good as 14ppm for b/w and 4ppm for colour. It also produces some very nice colour prints, even for photographs, although lasers are never truly designed for this compared to an inkjet.
Consumables are also quite affordable too. A new waste toner bottle every 6,000 prints costs £6, and a black and colour toner imaging kit costs £85, which does some expensive and about where you think toner carts are priced, but this kit allows 24,000 b/w pages and 6,000 colour pages to be printed. So it has years of life in just the one set of toner cartridges. Probably never actually needing to be replaced in most home uses.
The only thing against the Samsung is that it is USB only. No networking ability. Although you could share it from a networked PC, or with a printer supporting NAS share it that way.
The other colour laser printer worth looking at is the Dell 1320cn costing £116 in VAT. This is also a fairly nice looking unit but larger than the Samsung and noiser in operation. It does produce results slightly better than the Samsung though, including photos. Its print speed is also faster. Averaging 15ppm.
However its consumable costs are higher. Image drums every 20,000 pages costing £99, whereas the Samsung has the same drum for life. And its toner carts cost £47 for b/w and £61 for colour and don't last as long.
It does however have usb and Ethernet support so can easily be networked.
Personally for home use the Samsung is a great solution and I'm tempted to buy one myself. With the Dell being better suited to heavier use for home office users who need to print a lot each month.
Those are two nice lasers...
I haven't made my mind up yet. But I'm seriously considering the Epson I mentioned earlier, and two different HP's.
Pictures aren't that important. Colour is however. Size and fear of consumeables quickly drying up or destroying the printer is.
I haven't made my mind up yet. But I'm seriously considering the Epson I mentioned earlier, and two different HP's.
Pictures aren't that important. Colour is however. Size and fear of consumeables quickly drying up or destroying the printer is.
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i would certainly if you would like results for long time, photo's or letters or anything else to last, not go for an inkjet, it is not capable to keep photo images, they loose colors. after about 5 years or more. And do not have any wather on them, they suck
Use a printing company, use a laser for letters..
Old, but proven tech
Can be found cheap laserjets, saves the money, you can use your amiga, and think about the fact, if you need colors it will cost ink, it might store.. but there is no warranty..
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i would certainly if you would like results for long time, photo's or letters or anything else to last, not go for an inkjet, it is not capable to keep photo images, they loose colors. after about 5 years or more. And do not have any wather on them, they suck
Use a printing company, use a laser for letters..
Old, but proven tech
Can be found cheap laserjets, saves the money, you can use your amiga, and think about the fact, if you need colors it will cost ink, it might store.. but there is no warranty..Similar threads
