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Peter Ceresole <peter@cara.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> In article <37127E99.2BA4B41F@pedallart.freeserve.co.uk>,
> a hooper <hooper@pedallart.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> >I am looking to buy a new inkjet for home use, fairly heavy WP use but
> >also need reasonable colour quality.
> 
> The concensus is that the Epson 740 is superb. I know two people who have
> them and from what I can see, I agree. As a photo quality colour printer,
> on the special paper, it's simply amazing.
> 
> A possible drawback for you; it's not the fastest printer of all time. But
> then at the price it wouldn't be; it's quite acceptable unless you're
> doing
> large runs.

I would offer exactly the same advice, but I should add:

good plain black text results on ordinary copier paper can be hard to
come by - some paper seems to soak up the ink, other brands do much
better. You need to have some more expensive inkjet paper for important
printing.

this printer has an amazing secret built-in tilt detector, so accurate
and sensitive  that it can be used to put up shelves. The detector works
by making paper jam and foul up the mechanism if your shelves are even a
tiny bit not horizontal.

> As for clogging; the guys I know are occcasional users, with sometimes
> week-long intervals between print jobs, and they have no problems that I
> know of.

These Epson inkjet heads are not replaced when you change the ink
cartridge. They have to last the life of the printer. While this means
they are probably higher quality to begin with, there is more danger of
permanent damage. I would be interested to know whether third-party ink
supplies are more likely to cause this.

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