AllanB

Suggest the Epson Stylus 680 Colour printer. Has sepeare black ink to keep running costs reasonable. Print quality is good as it does 2800dpi and its reasonably quick.

Your for around £100-115 , oh it doesn't come with a printer cable.

AllanB

Chris L

Allan beat me to it I've just bought one of the Epson Colour 680s aswell. Nice printer with very good quality images. For 100 quid (got mine from PC World) you can't really beat (and it is compatable with Windows 2000). Recommended.

Chris

Mick

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Hi, my 5 year old Lexmark Winwriter 150C has finally expired! Any recommendations for a replacement? Home office sort of work.

Obviously prices have dropped and quality has increased since I paid £350 for my relic

There is a computer fair near me tomorrow morning so a quick response would be appreciated!

Cheers

Mick

ChrisB

The new issue of PC Pro has a big Inkjet Printer test - might be worth a quick read.

Chris.

Mick

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You'll laugh at this (at me maybe )
My printer started misbehaving around the time I installed WinME. This seems to have been coinciding with cartridges running low . My BIOS required an update to make itself entirely happy with ME. This was completed successfully. Later we noticed problems with the printer not working properly. Reinstalled the drivers & then could not complete installation. Checking the LEXMARK site bbs a few other people have had probs with WinME. I ran through the trouble shooter which asked me to run through an installation checklist. The bit about the port compatability with ECP worried me. I knew I had done it but felt it needed checking. It turns out that the new BIOS had set all the defaults back and the printer port was now incorrect

Now it is sorted

Mick

AWD

The Epson Stylus range is extremly impressive - for home/small office b&w with colour if necessary. Make sure you get one with a separate black cartridge.

If you want just B&W and fast ppm go for a laser though.

PeteT

I had an Epson stylus 440 which was crap!!
It took ages to get going when you started it up, going through an amazingly complex shuffling backwards and forwards of the print head type thing. The result was if you turned it on to just print one page it could take literally 3 or 4 minutes.
When it started to make odd graunching noises followed by jamming up completely I was only too pleased to replace it with a HP Deskjet 840c which in comparison is superb.

Richard Gledhill

I've got a 680 and I reckon it's brilliant. PC World have it for £99 which was actually cheaper than any Net places when I looked just before xmas. Photo quality on decent paper is absolutely stunning - wouldn't have believe it if I hadn't printed it out myself!

Forgot to say - use USB rather than parallel port if at all possible, as it's far faster and much easier to set up / more reliable.

Richard

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sasim

I have just bought an Epson 880, it has slightly faster printing and less cost per page than the 680, but is £50 more expensive.

I think the resolution is better too but I am not sure.

Stuart

Mick

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I have been looking at the reviews, Epson 880 looked good but I was sorely tempted by the HP Deskjet 990 Cxi! (being an autophile - those letters are just wonderful, akin to 'GTi' or 'Turbo' )

If anyone sees it cheap anywhere please let me know - as I'm sure the Lexmark won't last forever

Mick

simon_prickett

We have an HP 970Cxi in the office, it's fantastic, gets a lot of hammer, doesn't break, cartridges last a long time, does double sided and is USB!

Simon.