satisfying cheap printer

Post #249,326 by rcareaga 3/25/06 9:59:19 PM Reply	satisfying cheap printer A refurbished "Lexmark Z515" color inkjet at the local SF Staples for $10. Of course, they wanted $35 for the two-cartridge "starter kit" and $25 for a USB cable, but I had a couple of spare cables handy, so the bottom line was $45+CA tax. The printer was purchased for the spousette's use with her G4 iBook, from which she wants nothing more than to issue to paper the occasional web page or WP document. The color reproduction is not the greatest I've ever seen in an inkjet (although the text output is crisper than I would have expected), and the output speed will never even qualify for the Printer Olympics, but geez!—the quality and performance is a fraction of a light-year ahead of the nine-pin Epson dot-matrix jobbie I purchased late in 1982 for fifty times the sum, unadjusted for inflation. God bless the heathen Chinee... cordially, Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.
Post #249,329 by rcareaga 3/25/06 10:06:57 PM Reply	I should add that ...that miserable $.5K printer was purchased when I was making a little over a tenth of my current income (although my rent in those days, which ever involved a sprint to meet, was a seventh of my current mortgage. But, day-um!—proper kit can be had for a much less substantial cash outlay than in former years. cordially, Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.
Post #249,346 by tuberculosis 3/26/06 12:14:04 AM Reply	They get you on the refills Ink carts are bloody expensive. I just retired an epson C86 because the heads kept plugging up and I could no longer get them clear. The printer was about $60 new but a full complement of replacement ink carts was about $120. It worked like a champ for about 18 months, then started insisting ink carts were empty when they were full - but the heads were plugged. I've come to regard inkjet printers as a con game . I've replaced it with a color laser (waaaaaaayyyy more money) but my experience with laser printers is they live forever and print a lot with a single cartridge. If it satisfies your needs for a year, I'd say you got a great deal. [link\|http://www.blackbagops.net\|Black Bag Operations Log] [link\|http://www.objectiveclips.com\|Artificial Intelligence] [link\|http://www.badpage.info/seaside/html\|Scrutinizer]
Post #249,474 by tonytib 3/27/06 11:24:29 AM Reply	Canon is the way to go for inkjets: no chips, easy refills
Post #249,349 by Meerkat 3/26/06 1:37:29 AM Reply	reminds me of my 1988 printer purchase A 9-pin Star Nx-1000 Colour aka [link\|http://www.atarimagazines.com/v7n10/nx1000rainbow.html\|Rainbow]. It was only $626 - or pretty much the sum total of all the cash I earned in my school holiday job that year. I thought it was the best thing since sliced bread. never mind it would happily take 30 minutes to print one page. (8 passes per line could do that to you...) I'm sure the rest of the family loved it too, the wonderful dot-matrix noise at 3am when I was pulling all-nighters to get school assignments finished on time, and so on. On the plus side, the colour ribbons were only about $25 :) Two out of three people wonder where the other one is.
Post #249,366 by boxley 3/26/06 9:44:03 AM Reply	I had one of those as well, loverly printer Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 50 years. meep

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