On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 12:47:35PM +0200, Ira Abramov wrote: > double check that. HP sells cartriges with built-in print heads which > Canon's are only ink bottles and the print heads stay in the printer. it > has plusses and minuses, like everything in life. I personally prefer > the Canon way, If I ever buy a printer.
Epson is the company that has had that type of printer for a lot longer than Canon. The older Canon printers used the same type of combined cartriges that HP used. The Epson printers have always had problems with air bubbles in the ink path after you change, replace or refill cartriges. I expect the Canon's do too, it's "a feature" of the design. :-) > I even read about a 9 head printer that features two shades of grey (B&W > printing has always been a sore point with photographers and ink > printers), and an additional head with clear lamination "ink" for > preserving your photo over a longer time. I can't find the article now, > can't remember who makes it. either way we are now WAY off topic :) If you shop around, you can find 6 ink printers that use 6 grey inks instead of the 6 colored ones. The problem with them is you are stuck with the color of the ink (and yes, black inks have a color). Printing a monochrome picture on a 3 or 6 ink color printer allows you to adjust the color of the ink which may be more important to you. For those that remember, it was like choosing the type of print paper because of the color of the paper and the photographs it produced. I always prefered "cold tone" (blue) papers, but many people prefered watm tone (brown) black and white papers. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (077)-424-1667 IL Fax: 972-2-648-1443 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 Support the growing boycott of Google by radio users and hobbyists. It's starting to work, Yahoo has surpassed Google. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
