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4 total messages Started by Fraser Thomson Sat, 25 Mar 2000 00:00
Epson 760 or HP 930?
#2759
Author: Fraser Thomson
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 00:00
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I have an HP 670 just now and the quality has become really crap and it is
pretty slow, so i want a new one.  I have narrowed it down to the 760 epson
or 930 HP that are in my price range.

How fast is the epson?? Is the 7ppm colour draft or normal???

Is the quality on the 930 very high standard?
e.g photos on ordinary and photopaper?
And is it slow? 2ppm doesnt seem very fast.

They both seem to be good, but is 1440 DPi on the epson a better bet all
round? or is 600Dpi on the HP good enough?

Any info appreciated.

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Fraz (active2k)

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Re: Epson 760 or HP 930?
#2760
Author: Gabriel
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 00:00
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I have an HP950C, which is very similar to the 930 (slightly faster, but
apart from that they r the same).  I  am very happy with it - it is fast,
quiet, and quality is excellent.  HOWEVER do bear in mind that i am heavily
biased - I have never owned an Epson, and my HP is relatively new (replaced
a cruddy ol Canon4100) so anything it prints looks good to me!
Gabriel
Fraser Thomson <fraz@totalise.co.uk> wrote in message
news:38dcfed2.0@news2.cluster1.telinco.net...
> I have an HP 670 just now and the quality has become really crap and it is
> pretty slow, so i want a new one.  I have narrowed it down to the 760
epson
> or 930 HP that are in my price range.
>
> How fast is the epson?? Is the 7ppm colour draft or normal???
>
> Is the quality on the 930 very high standard?
> e.g photos on ordinary and photopaper?
> And is it slow? 2ppm doesnt seem very fast.
>
> They both seem to be good, but is 1440 DPi on the epson a better bet all
> round? or is 600Dpi on the HP good enough?
>
> Any info appreciated.
>
> --
> Regards
>
> Fraz (active2k)
>
> fraz@totalise.co.uk
> active2k@carrotmail.com
> active2k@strayduck.com
>
> Visit totalise isp for free shares just for using the Internet
> http://www.totalise.net/go.htm?ref=fraz
>
> For patches to fix dxplayer.dll game errors see
> http://come.to/gamepatch
>
> For general computing see
> http://come.to/rf-computing
>
>
>
Re: Epson 760 or HP 930?
#2761
Author: Chris Bennett
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 00:00
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I have just purchased an HP 932 to replace my Epson 800. I can't
comment on the Epson 760 but I am very happy with the HP 932. I have
just finished printing 2 IBM manuals double sided (about 1200
impressions - 600 pages) on two economy cartridges (equivalent to one
Large cartridge). I also left each of them about 1/8 full so that I
can refill them later.

I found that the print on "draft" mode was just as good as the print
on "normal" mode at least for my manuals. I now have set my default
print to draft mode - and even color pages look quite nice.

All of this is printing on standard Xerox photocopy paper, not ink jet
paper.

The HP is also very quiet and does not spend 1 to  2 minutes cleaning
the heads each time I turn it on. I stopped using the Epson 800
because of this. And the Epson did this even if all I want to do was
print one page,

I printed a photo on both printers in their best mode (Epson -
1400dpi, and HP 1200/2400dpi) on glossy photo epson paper. The
pictures looked identical in quality. Of course, the Epson 760 is a
more recent printer and may be better than the HP 832.

Refilling the ink cartridges in the HP is easier that refilling the
Epson. The black HP cartridge is very simple to refill and holds 42 cc
of ink. The Espon printers are all rated as quite difficult to fill.

I am happy with my decision and for my uses the HP makes more sense
than the Epson.

Chris Bennett

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On Sat, 25 Mar 2000 18:00:26 GMT, "Fraser Thomson"
<fraz@totalise.co.uk> wrote:

>I have an HP 670 just now and the quality has become really crap and it is
>pretty slow, so i want a new one.  I have narrowed it down to the 760 epson
>or 930 HP that are in my price range.
>
>How fast is the epson?? Is the 7ppm colour draft or normal???
>
>Is the quality on the 930 very high standard?
>e.g photos on ordinary and photopaper?
>And is it slow? 2ppm doesnt seem very fast.
>
>They both seem to be good, but is 1440 DPi on the epson a better bet all
>round? or is 600Dpi on the HP good enough?
>
>Any info appreciated.
Re: Epson 760 or HP 930?
#2762
Author: Nelson
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 00:00
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HP 930 is better then Epson 760 in all aspect, print economics, quality, more
colours per pixel (27000 colour VS 8 colour), resolution..etc.

Fraser Thomson wrote:

> I have an HP 670 just now and the quality has become really crap and it is
> pretty slow, so i want a new one.  I have narrowed it down to the 760 epson
> or 930 HP that are in my price range.
>
> How fast is the epson?? Is the 7ppm colour draft or normal???
>
> Is the quality on the 930 very high standard?
> e.g photos on ordinary and photopaper?
> And is it slow? 2ppm doesnt seem very fast.
>
> They both seem to be good, but is 1440 DPi on the epson a better bet all
> round? or is 600Dpi on the HP good enough?
>
> Any info appreciated.
>
> --
> Regards
>
> Fraz (active2k)
>
> fraz@totalise.co.uk
> active2k@carrotmail.com
> active2k@strayduck.com
>
> Visit totalise isp for free shares just for using the Internet
> http://www.totalise.net/go.htm?ref=fraz
>
> For patches to fix dxplayer.dll game errors see
> http://come.to/gamepatch
>
> For general computing see
> http://come.to/rf-computing
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