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Need a very good inkjet printer

M

mazeroth

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Could you please recommend one for me and, if possible, link to where I should purchase the cartridges.

Thanks.
 
Not enough info. What types of output are most important to you? Type: MultiFunction, single function? How many pages do you print a month? You can always buy OEM ink - you didn't say that you want clone cartridges or refill ink (refill carts yourself?) and are you willing to put up with any loss of function due to the use of clone carts or refilling? Give us something to work with.

That being said, I'm still a Canon fan even though they went with chipped tanks to make our lives more difficult while turning more of their customers into reliable cash-cows, and I don't think you can find a better combination of text printer and photo printer (re. output quality) than the iP4000/5000 series (current model is the iP4500). Apparently the iP3500 is nearly as good for a lot less, but the photo black will be the composite black which may look grayish-green if there are large areas of black in the photo - I try to avoid printing pix that have large areas of black anyway. The higher series have separate black tanks for text and photos while the 3500 has only the text black tank. You can get clone tanks where you have to transplant the chips from the OEM tanks, clone tanks w/ reset chips, and refill ink all with good quality inks. Canon also makes true photo printers (6 or 8 colors of ink) which are at the top of their class too.
. They also make multifunction units which use the same print engines as the printers, so the output should be equally good but never seems to be quite the equal of the single-function units for some reason.

HP has been making some printers with separate tanks for each color and clone tanks are available (in the 02 and 88 series). Refilling the tanks yourself is possible, but they are not transparent, so doing the refilling might be "interesting"... Some of them have huge ink tanks available to allow for a 7000+ page per month duty cycle. Canon doesn't even publish a duty cycle for their ink jet printers... Most of the reviewers haven't found the advanced settings that allow for better photo printing on the jumbo-tank units - they default to stingy ink-flow levels to keep the consumables cost/page numbers low.

The only other printers I'm aware of that have passive (no electronic devices in them) ink tanks are the Brother AIOs, but their printed output still isn't up to par with the market leaders.

.bh.
 
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