Epson C80 vs. Canon S500

[Guest]

I just read the excellent reviews of the inkjet printers and was about to grab an s500 or s600 depending on price but then I noticed that one of the main flaws in the Epson was that the individual ink tanks were twice as expensive as the canon. This is not the case. I found both for $12 for each color. Does this change the overall price per page value of the Epson? Which should I get? I'm just looking for a standard general purpose home printer but have had it with my HP and Lexmark cartridge costs. Thanks for any and all replys.

 

[AMD_Man]

I'd look at the S500 or S600. With the Epson, if the head goes bad, you have to replace the printer, but with the Canon, you can buy a new head. Anyway, the S600 is merely a faster version of the S500. I have a Canon S600 and I love it's photo quality.

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[AMD_Man]

I'd look at the S500 or S600. With the Epson, if the head goes bad, you have to replace the printer, but with the Canon, you can buy a new head. Anyway, the S600 is merely a faster version of the S500. I have a Canon S600 and I love it's photo quality.

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[Guest]

I had the same problem just a week ago! Just 1 thing, if you go for the C80, get the C70 instead. It's only a little slower, because of its engine. But believe me it's very quick at printing tekst documents. I chose epson because of the really pathetic performance of canon in the past. The C70/C80 is nothing like the earlier epson inkjets which were good at image printing but slow and noisy. Besides I still think images on the canon on normal paper are blurry, but that just me. Epson has history as imageprinters, so its text output is good enough for me, but i must admit that lexmark and HP textoutput is better. Overall i think there quite equal printers, so its gonna be a difficult choice to make.

 

[AMD_Man]

I have an 8ppm Laser Printer (which actually prints 8ppm, as advertised) and I find that my Canon S600 is nearly as fast as my laser printer at text although the quality still can't match my Xerox laser printer.

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