Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Jump to bottom

Printer - Which one should we get? #1

Closed
nelsonic opened this issue Sep 13, 2015 · 31 comments
Closed

Printer - Which one should we get? #1

nelsonic opened this issue Sep 13, 2015 · 31 comments
Assignees
@nelsonic
Labels
help wanted If you can help make progress with this issue, please comment! question A question needs to be answered before progress can be made on this issue

Comments

@nelsonic
Copy link
Member

@iteles As you know, our Samsung Printer has been playing up for a while.
Question is: should we take it into PC World (today) and see if they can repair it?
_or_... simply cut our losses and order a new one?

Inkjet vs Laser: http://www.theguardian.com/money/2013/mar/30/inkjet-or-laser-printing-cost-effective
@nelsonic nelsonic added help wanted If you can help make progress with this issue, please comment! question A question needs to be answered before progress can be made on this issue labels Sep 13, 2015
@nelsonic
Copy link
Member Author

My idea would be to buy a _good_ InkJet printer (with reasonably priced ink cartridges) that can print high quality photos. And start plastering our walls with all the amazing photos you have taken...!

Buying Criteria

  • Print Quality
  • Print Speed
  • Value-for-money on Print Cartridges (cost per page printed)
  • Additional Functionality (e.g. Photocopier? we have a scanner, but for quick copies...?)
  • Easy to setup on our computers (Mac, Linux, ChromeBook, iPhone & Android)
  • Reasonable up-front Cost (though the life-time-value/cost is more important)
  • Transparency Film printing (for T-Shirts and other transfers)

@nelsonic
Copy link
Member Author

Best InkJet for photos in 2015: http://www.alphr.com/printers/1000167/best-printers-for-professional-prints-2015

@nelsonic
Copy link
Member Author

The Epson Expression Photo XP-950 A3 All-In-One Printer does pretty much everything... and crucially the inks are cheap.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Epson-Expression-Printer-Printing-Touchscreen/dp/B00ECBS5B4/
amazon-eposon-xp-950

_Hold-the-Press_ ... the XP-950 is _Cheaper in a Bricks-and-Morter Shop_!!!
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/computing-accessories/printers-scanners-and-ink/printers/epson-expression-photo-xp-950-all-in-one-wireless-a3-inkjet-printer-10024932-pdt.html
pc-world-epson-xp-950

@nelsonic
Copy link
Member Author

The XP-960 has been announced but isn't yet available to buy... https://www.epson.co.uk/gb/en/viewcon/corporatesite/products/mainunits/overview/15975
Main difference is a bigger touch-screen for interacting with the printer...

@iteles
Copy link
Member

iteles commented Sep 13, 2015

I didn't think it was possible, but the bigger screen is pretty much the main difference. I don't think the differences are worth £70 (the price of a 4G portable router #2 ). I love the XP-950 though, full bleed prints and all... Plus the dual paper trays!

It'll probably cost almost as much to repair the old one as to buy a new one...

@nelsonic
Copy link
Member Author

Should we just order the XP-950 to PC World (click-and-collect) and go pick it up some time this week?

@iteles
Copy link
Member

iteles commented Sep 13, 2015

Sounds like a plan 👍

@nelsonic nelsonic mentioned this issue Sep 13, 2015
Closed
@iteles iteles assigned nelsonic and unassigned iteles Sep 13, 2015
@nelsonic nelsonic mentioned this issue Sep 16, 2015
Closed
5 tasks
@nelsonic
Copy link
Member Author

Marvellously. Both the XP-950 and XP-960 are out-of-stock everywhere now ...

xp-950-out-of-stock

@nelsonic
Copy link
Member Author

The Epson EcoTank L455 could be an option ... the main advantage being incredible value-for-money on Ink ...
epson-ecotank-l455-amazon

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Epson-EcoTank-Multifunction-InkTank-Printer/dp/B00WX5T9HA/

@nelsonic
Copy link
Member Author

Like the look of the Canon PIXMA iP8750
canon-pixma-ip8750
http://www.amazon.co.uk/computers/dp/B00I3ZISVW/

Which is cheaper at John Lewis than Amazon!! http://www.johnlewis.com/canon-pixma-ip8750-wireless-a3-printer-black/p1783585

canon-pixma-ip8750-john-lewis

Especially the cheap ink: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00P6JLL6C
canon-pixma-ip8750-cheap-ink

But the lack of an LCD is off-putting because we won't know what's going on and it might be hard to setup on the wifi network without any form of input ...

@nelsonic
Copy link
Member Author

Another option is EPSON Workforce WF-7620 DTWF
epson-workforce-wf-7620-pc-world

Which is £199 at PC World (but £229 on Amazon!)
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/computing-accessories/printers-scanners-and-ink/printers/epson-workforce-wf-7620-dtwf-all-in-one-wireless-a3-inkjet-printer-with-fax-22067011-pdt.html

And also has cheap inks:

epson-workforce-wf-7620-cheap-inks

@nelsonic nelsonic changed the title Printer - Should we repair the "old" one or buy a new one? Printer - Which one should we get? Sep 19, 2015
@nelsonic
Copy link
Member Author

@iteles i'm a bit undecided here ... I would really like to have an impressively good _Photo_ Printer which we could use to plaster our walls with amaze photos dwyl/summer#45 (comment) On that note should we just get the Canon #1 (comment) which by many accounts has great quality photos?

@iteles
Copy link
Member

iteles commented Sep 19, 2015

I would always lean towards Canons over other printers if the aim is great photographic quality, but this is just because I've seen a lot of proof of how great Canon printer photos can be. They partner with a ton of craft bloggers on photo projects and they're intelligent about getting the quality photo word out there.

The one thing that puts me off the Canon is that it doesn't do double sided printing.

@nelsonic
Copy link
Member Author

@iteles do you consider the double-sided printing to be a useful feature? are you going to be duplexing a lot...?

@iteles
Copy link
Member

iteles commented Sep 19, 2015

@nelsonic I think most of our printing will be to put stuff on walls if we have to. I'd like to discourage printing off documents to read for example, but should we need to print off contracts etc, that should always be double sided. It would be nice to have that option, but not a deal breaker.

@nelsonic
Copy link
Member Author

Ok... sounds like the Epson Expression Photo XP-960 A3 All-in-One http://www.amazon.co.uk/Epson-Expression-Photo-XP-960-Printer/dp/B014PJ6QTU (with duplex) might be the one to go for then ...
but ... I cannot find "cheap" ink for it...

@iteles
Copy link
Member

iteles commented Sep 19, 2015

Epson Expression XP-960 assuming we can find cheap inks for it. If not, Canon Pixma 👍

@nelsonic
Copy link
Member Author

Right, I'm thinking Canon Pixma for Photos and then a cheap-er A4 Duplex ?

@iteles
Copy link
Member

iteles commented Sep 19, 2015

👍 Get the Pixma.

The second we find a need to start printing documents (which as we mentioned, we discourage unless required 🌲), we'll look into a cheaper A4 duplex.

Let me know if you want company going to the shops! 😘

@nelsonic
Copy link
Member Author

Ordered the Canon. I bit of a Joke that its going to take till _FRIDAY_ to be available ...

pc-world-processing-order

But what-evs. means we can do a Printing and Collage Fun Times Hour next Saturday morning ... 😉

@iteles
Copy link
Member

iteles commented Sep 19, 2015

❤️ 😉

@iteles
Copy link
Member

iteles commented Sep 20, 2015

@nelsonic Are you ordering the inks from Amazon or am I? 😘

@nelsonic
Copy link
Member Author

The printer will come with inks. what we should order is _A3 Photo Paper_ ... 😮 😉

@iteles
Copy link
Member

iteles commented Sep 20, 2015

For the record we have about 3 boxes of A4 photo paper 😛

@nelsonic
Copy link
Member Author

Yeah, we should get down some of that too.

@nelsonic
Copy link
Member Author

Good news! 📦 early!
pcworld-printer
Shop closes 20:00 so we can grab it on our way home or pick up a ZipCar and collect that way.

@nelsonic
Copy link
Member Author

@iteles ordering this Paper: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Epson-Archival-Matte-Paper-Sheets/dp/B000092QYW
50 Sheets for now. should be enough, right?

@iteles
Copy link
Member

iteles commented Sep 23, 2015

@nelsonic The A3 version would be great (thought archival is maybe unnecessary, it's great quality 😉 )

@iteles
Copy link
Member

iteles commented Jan 20, 2016

Done! Oops! Late in closing this one 💯

@iteles iteles closed this as completed Jan 20, 2016
@nelsonic
Copy link
Member Author

Sucks that it takes ages to "warm up" ... 🐌
really need to print off some "mood board" pics soon... 😉

@iteles
Copy link
Member

iteles commented Jan 20, 2016

Good thing to do for the ART project!

@nelsonic nelsonic mentioned this issue Dec 19, 2016
Closed
4 tasks
@nelsonic nelsonic mentioned this issue Nov 24, 2022
Open
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Assignees

@nelsonic nelsonic

Labels
help wanted If you can help make progress with this issue, please comment! question A question needs to be answered before progress can be made on this issue
Projects
None yet
Milestone
No milestone
Development

No branches or pull requests
2 participants
@nelsonic @iteles