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Andy Mabbett writes
>Father Christmas is going to bring me a printer (or, rather, cash to use when 
>buying one).

I have tried a variety of printers over the years, there are five here.

I may still have two epson stylus about which you can have for free,
they were never very satisfactory, very slow, frequently blocked up and
despite claims needed frequent expensive replacement cartridges.
Basically a pain in the butt.

I ended up changing them all to HP. The colours are good, but not truly
photographic (mind you I only use 3 colour+bk). The black ink (but not
the colours) is waterproof. The cartridges can be refilled using cheap
replacement ink (which isn't waterproof) providing you immediately
refill and put the cartridge to use (that is don't have two and refill
one as the spare). I use 'economode' almost exclusively which is
indistinguishable from 'normal' to all intents and purposes except when
in colour, and which prints very fast as it uses the full (about 12mm)
height of the nozzle assembly for each pass.

Our very much older HP's still function elsewhere without problem.

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Oz
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