Looking for a colour printer

kwikbreaks

Collabora wrote: »

i suggest a simple Epson such as http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/3214532.htm would do and it is cheap on inks through ebay

I've just bought one of those from Tesco (99p cheaper iirc but that's pretty irrelevant).

I carefully checked that there were compatibles on sale on eBay as in the past Epson clobbered one range of their printers with a firmware update that blocked the use of compatibles.

I got fed up with my old Espson when it started wrecking and misfeeding paper - it's possible that I could have had it to bits and sorted out the problem but the last time I went inside a printer I got inky hands and ruined a new shirt which caused considerable (justified) earache.

Anyhow the printer is working as far from the router as is possible in my house. It's a little slow on starting to print and quite slow printing photos too but I can live with that for the price. For some reason the twain driver won't work with my antique Paint Shop Pro 7 but the Epson Scan program is perfectly OK.

It had problems printing on one type of poundshop 6x4 photo paper where it slewed during the last couple of cm making a rainbow mess but was fine with a different type. Sadly I'd taken the inner paper out of the cardboard wrapper so don't know the types. The one that failed was very thin though.

If you want cheap and cheerful this does look OK but don't expect perfection.

The setup was a bit of a miracle to me - just running the CD somehow plugged the correct SSID and password into it. That was on a wireless connected laptop - I'm not 100% sure it could have done it on a wired device which didn't have that info in the registry and even if it had that stuff how did it do the job? I think I'll have a google to find out - looks a bit of a security flaw really.