On Saturday, 25 September, 2010 @08:29 zulu, Tim scribed: > Unfortunately, refilling isn't really an option for some printers. That site's not really all about refills. CIS = Continuous Ink System e.g. http://www.efillink.info/index.php?p=1_188 You can top off the external tanks before they get empty. > For instance, my old Hewlett Packard had combined ink tanks and HP's are OK (I've owned a few)... but IMO, their printer business model is selling medium-quality printers below cost and making it up on ink. With my Epson R800 and R1800 (they're shared on my network using a D-Link DPR1260 hard wired, not wireless), printing on photo paper, I cannot tell the difference between their output and shots from a lab... well, except for the price per print... less than a dollar for paper + ink for an 8x10, versus $3 at the discount 1-hour photo labs. And that's using the $12 Epson carts (yellow, magenta, cyan, black, photo black, red, blue and gloss optimizer), not refills or the CIS (I'd like a CIS for them, but don't have the need for that volume at this time; the same CIS fits both the R800 and R1800). The R800 and R1800 both come with a tray to print photo-quality directly on 'white top' CD/DVD discs, FWIW. I didn't recommend either of those printers to the OP because I usually use a windows machine to print from ... not necessarily because of the drivers -- the CUPS/Gutenberg drivers seem to have all the same options (including the CD/DVD paper-selection) in them as the Epson-provided windows interface -- but because I'm not entirely comfortable with GIMP yet. So I can't really testify as to how the quality matches up using only fedora. I have an HP laserjet for B&W document printing, but I've never experimented with color lasers on photo paper, so can't attest to their print quality, either. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
