The day my printer died on me...
Finally it happened. My long time trusty BJ printer for the past 4 years, an Epson Stylus C40UX that came free with my DELL computer, died on me yesterday after the mechanical belt seems to have developed some problems and no long can print anything despite a nozzle and ink cartridge change...
So I had to retired it and replaced it with a Canon printer which I was in deliberation for a long time as to change to a Canon or not. Well, the model which I gotten was a mid-range one for SOHO purposes. I love the sleek lines and design with many features that I find will be useful for a long time to come.
Canon Pixma iP5200
a review can be obtained here
My 1st impression - it's a very quiet printer... so quiet and fast that it can generate a 12 page normal quality text printout in under 40secs and I have to look up to see if it is churning out the print-outs. The rollers and print-head is really impressive... clear, sharp and ink efficient.
One thing that got me flustered initially was that MAC cannot support the new Pixma series from Canon and so when I send a doc thru the network (connected my printer to my Windoze PC and linked up via a home network to my Mac), the gimp printing does not exist in the Mac profile so I have to check in forums on whats the problem. Seems that Canon and Mac did not develop a gimp-profile for the printers in the PIXMA series!
So have to surf around a 3rd party Pixma gimp-printing profile in order to get it to work on my Mac coz without it, it prints in A5 size instead of A4 as specified.
Will try printing out a color and B&W 4R borderless later to see how it fares in photo printing as I need to generate color proofs and contact sheets from time to time :)
So I had to retired it and replaced it with a Canon printer which I was in deliberation for a long time as to change to a Canon or not. Well, the model which I gotten was a mid-range one for SOHO purposes. I love the sleek lines and design with many features that I find will be useful for a long time to come.
Canon Pixma iP5200
a review can be obtained here
My 1st impression - it's a very quiet printer... so quiet and fast that it can generate a 12 page normal quality text printout in under 40secs and I have to look up to see if it is churning out the print-outs. The rollers and print-head is really impressive... clear, sharp and ink efficient.
One thing that got me flustered initially was that MAC cannot support the new Pixma series from Canon and so when I send a doc thru the network (connected my printer to my Windoze PC and linked up via a home network to my Mac), the gimp printing does not exist in the Mac profile so I have to check in forums on whats the problem. Seems that Canon and Mac did not develop a gimp-profile for the printers in the PIXMA series!
So have to surf around a 3rd party Pixma gimp-printing profile in order to get it to work on my Mac coz without it, it prints in A5 size instead of A4 as specified.
Will try printing out a color and B&W 4R borderless later to see how it fares in photo printing as I need to generate color proofs and contact sheets from time to time :)
you have made the right choice...I am a fan of Canon printer..heeheee...
now using the i990 (old model) very satified...
Posted by
Anonymous |
8:10 PM
hehehe... time to upgrade? :)
one thing though, the individual cartridges will cost around SGD$20 each.. that means a full replacement each time is about SGD$100.00
hope the ink usage efficiency is as advertised or I'll be broke.
Posted by
ShutterBug |
12:27 AM
I'm currently an Epson user but seriously considering changing to a Canon in time to come when my current Eppy dies on me.
Will probably also get a B/W Laser for printing documents and reserve the colour printer only for pics. The real problem is finding space to accomodate 2 printers.
Posted by
naniecheng |
9:14 AM
Naniecheng - you can check out Courts, I think they have a current on promotion some monochrome laser printers but why laser printing?
Silver-CRV - thanks. which shop did you get it from?? I'm using the new chromaLife 100 inks.
Posted by
ShutterBug |
3:16 AM
Cheaper and faster to print doc using laser printer. Inkjets are usually slower and cost more in the long run. Plus lasers are quite cheap nowadays.
There is a shop in SLS where you can order the ink and they will deliver right to your door at no additional charge. I'll try to find/recall the shop's name. Saves you the trouble of having to go down each time you run dry of ink.
Posted by
naniecheng |
8:57 AM