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I don't mean to be an "I told you so", but I have somewhere here
archived a discussion we had about Canon head failures, and I recall you
telling me that I was blowing so much smoke (to paraphrase). The
context, as I recall, was if Epson heads and Canon heads would last
equally long, because you complained about your Epson printers clogging
or some such thing (you used only 3rd party inks as I recall).
Hmmm....
Art
Taliesyn wrote:
> Bill wrote:
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>> Taliesyn wrote:
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>>> You may not want to do that. The average "ink site" price is close to
>>> $100. I bought my printhead on eBay for $54. Regular shipping for US
>>> folks is free, I believe (from the dealer I got mine from).
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>> Hey Taliesyn, when did your printhead die?
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>> I don't recall seeing mention of it here, but then I've been busy with
>> other things.
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> Well, it never really died, I just put it out of its misery. It would
> print high quality text and graphics projects fine but photos had
> visible, vertical head pass lines, something it didn't have in the
> beginning when I compared it with an early photo. It would do this with
> all papers and inks (even OEM). I got tired of that and actually
> bought a new printer, the iP5000 this past Christmas. When my father
> wanted me to do some of his digital photos too, I decided to replace
> the printhead of the i860 ($54) and have two operational printers. One
> for lesser jobs and one just for me
. Having two is actually cool.
> Yesterday I printed a program for a special occasion (1 sheet, both
> sides, folded). I needed 70 copies. So I had both printers working
> simultaneously, each doing a side. Naturally, one had to have a
> head start for this to work. It cut my job in half. Same with photos.
> Sometimes I run them both simultaneously giving me 2 photos in 3
> minutes, or whatever it takes at highest resolution.
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> The i860 that had the print head changed was earlier replaced by Canon.
> The paper feed mechanism just suddenly began failing one day. So far
> the replacement (and its new printhead) are working fine.
>
> -Taliesyn