Printers

I know I've asked about printers before, but now am in the process of
getting a business loan to buy new/better stuff.

I'm looking at printers, around $100-150 range (or maybe more, but a few
years old used?) injet. Something I can refill the cartridges which I thik
Epson puts a chip in to prevent. (I know, refilled isn't good for printing
but I do a LOT of practice printing and it works for that)

I was thinking maybe there are printers that work better with Publisher
(2000) than others?

I now have a Lexmark 5150 All in One (which I know is cheap, but all I
could get at the time, and I do find the photocopy- on it's own very useful
and also the fax. The scanner is a bit small, though). Maybe it's not true,
but I went though a lot of trying to set up the printer to work with
Publisher settings, so they wouldn't clash. Right now I have figured out how
to print notecards, using Publisher settings, and just leaving the Lexmark
settings default (which is 8X11- whatever paper) and it works, 2 cards per
page.

I've got a few printers written down that have been recommended or I've
read about, but now thinking maybe some work better with Publisiher (the
program) than others? Or, some that are hard to use with it.

Any ideas?

~ Carrie

A good place to start
http://reviews.cnet.com/Printers/2001-3155_7-0.html

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"Carrie" wrote in message
...
I know I've asked about printers before, but now am in the process of
getting a business loan to buy new/better stuff.

I'm looking at printers, around $100-150 range (or maybe more, but a few
years old used?) injet. Something I can refill the cartridges which I thik
Epson puts a chip in to prevent. (I know, refilled isn't good for printing
but I do a LOT of practice printing and it works for that)

I was thinking maybe there are printers that work better with Publisher
(2000) than others?

I now have a Lexmark 5150 All in One (which I know is cheap, but all I
could get at the time, and I do find the photocopy- on it's own very useful
and also the fax. The scanner is a bit small, though). Maybe it's not true,
but I went though a lot of trying to set up the printer to work with
Publisher settings, so they wouldn't clash. Right now I have figured out how
to print notecards, using Publisher settings, and just leaving the Lexmark
settings default (which is 8X11- whatever paper) and it works, 2 cards per
page.

I've got a few printers written down that have been recommended or I've
read about, but now thinking maybe some work better with Publisiher (the
program) than others? Or, some that are hard to use with it.

Any ideas?

~ Carrie

Carrie was very recently heard to utter:
I now have a Lexmark 5150 All in One (which I know is cheap, but
all I could get at the time, and I do find the photocopy- on it's own
very useful and also the fax. The scanner is a bit small, though).

Suggestion: use your current printer for refills and test prints, and get a
quality printer for finished documents.

If the Lexmark has an A4 scanner, that's the largest you're going to get
without buying a $5000 monstrosity.

--
Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher

Carrie,
From personal experience with doing a lot of printing - both offset at my
print shops and now that I'm retired from using inkjets at home for color
output. From a cost and ease of use standpoint there is no way you can beat
the Canon Pixma series of printers. Very fast and affordable with excellent
print quality. They are quite inexpensive to purchase and very low cost to
use if you refill the individual ink tanks - a process that's not so easy on
some brands, but which in the case of Canon printers is so simple and easy
that anyone can do it. Check out www.nifty-stuff.com for any help or advise
you may need regarding printing or refilling. You won't be sorry.
--
Ron

"Carrie" wrote in message
...
I know I've asked about printers before, but now am in the process of
getting a business loan to buy new/better stuff.

I'm looking at printers, around $100-150 range (or maybe more, but a few
years old used?) injet. Something I can refill the cartridges which I thik
Epson puts a chip in to prevent. (I know, refilled isn't good for
printing
but I do a LOT of practice printing and it works for that)

I was thinking maybe there are printers that work better with Publisher
(2000) than others?

I now have a Lexmark 5150 All in One (which I know is cheap, but all I
could get at the time, and I do find the photocopy- on it's own very
useful
and also the fax. The scanner is a bit small, though). Maybe it's not
true,
but I went though a lot of trying to set up the printer to work with
Publisher settings, so they wouldn't clash. Right now I have figured out
how
to print notecards, using Publisher settings, and just leaving the Lexmark
settings default (which is 8X11- whatever paper) and it works, 2 cards per
page.

I've got a few printers written down that have been recommended or
I've
read about, but now thinking maybe some work better with Publisiher (the
program) than others? Or, some that are hard to use with it.

Any ideas?

~ Carrie

Ed,

The HP Scanjet 8200 will scan 8½"x14" and starts at $500.

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF05a/15179-64195-215155-15202-215155-214599.html--Don"May your shadow be found in happy places." (Native North American)"Ed Bennett" wrote in . .. Carrie was very recently heard to utter: I now have a Lexmark 5150 All in One (which I know is cheap, but all I could get at the time, and I do find the photocopy- on it's own very useful and also the fax. The scanner is a bit small, though). Suggestion: use your current printer for refills and test prints, and geta quality printer for finished documents. If the Lexmark has an A4 scanner, that's the largest you're going to getwithout buying a $5000 monstrosity. -- Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher

Don Schmidt Don Retired was very recently heard to
utter:
The HP Scanjet 8200 will scan 8½"x14" and starts at $500.

Cool. Still, for A3/Tabloid or larger, you're looking at the high-end laser
MFPs.

--
Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher

I'm not sure what size 4A is, I just measured it's 11 1/2 by 8 3/4 (the
Lexmark)

The one I had before (I gave away when I got this) was longer. maybe 11"
wise by 17" long. though I think the inside was more like 14" (I'm going by
the space it took up on my computer table, since I no longer have it) Arco
brand, Not expensieve and I had it for several years.

I know,.bigger pictures can be scanned in two parts and put together.

I think that's what I meant by something bigger. Longer.

There's a lot to find out and figure out with cameras, scanners, printers
and computers... and there are new ones coming out all the time. I think out
of what I would use it for (amount of use) the scanner would be 4th on the
list of importance right now. And I do have one.

~ Carrie


"Ed Bennett" wrote in message
...
Carrie was very recently heard to utter:
I now have a Lexmark 5150 All in One (which I know is cheap, but
all I could get at the time, and I do find the photocopy- on it's own
very useful and also the fax. The scanner is a bit small, though).

Suggestion: use your current printer for refills and test prints, and get
a
quality printer for finished documents.

If the Lexmark has an A4 scanner, that's the largest you're going to get
without buying a $5000 monstrosity.

--
Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher

Carrie was very recently heard to utter:
I'm not sure what size 4A is, I just measured it's 11 1/2 by 8 3/4
(the Lexmark)

A4 (not 4A) is a universal standard size, 297 x 210mm (8.27 x 11.61"). It's
roughly equivalent to the antiquated Letter size so popular in the States.

The one I had before (I gave away when I got this) was longer. maybe
11" wise by 17" long. though I think the inside was more like 14"
(I'm going by the space it took up on my computer table, since I no
longer have it) Arco brand, Not expensieve and I had it for several
years.

Perhaps "Legal" sized - 8.5 x 14"?

The only scanner I've been able to find (at least the last time I bothered
to search) that scans up to A3 (~11 x 17", tabloid) is a Mustek, and Mustek
scanners in my experience are the biggest piles of faeces I've ever seen.

I know,.bigger pictures can be scanned in two parts and put together.

Not as easily as it sounds, in my limited experience. Perhaps it gets
easier with practise.

--
Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher

Thanks, Ron

That's what I'm looking for actual names and people who have had experience
using them.

My first printer (I got "free" with my first computer set up in 1998)
was a Canon BJC-240. I used it to death (LOL) and it kept on going. I
refilled it (all I did was the black ones then, and you had to take one out
and put the other in to switch to color, as you probably know).

The printer worked and kept on working till around late last winter,
when all of a sudden it just didn't work (power) I took it apart and tried
putting the plug wire in directly (thinking the plug end might have broken
inside) and nothing. That's when I got the Lexmark All in One 5150.

People used to tell me the Canon BJC-250 (and series) was cheap junk.
Maybe if I had believed that it would have been, but it lasted 7 years for
me.

I started an Excel spreadsheep for printers (and cameras) but got
sidetracked when I realized I don't know how to set up/use Excel
spreadsheets (did some tutorials, learned some, but now think writing it
down on a piece of paper might be the same idea?)

Copy/pasted from the spread sheet, what I have so far (and only prices of a
few I looked for on Amazon, which might not be the best place to buy) some I
hadn't even gotten to prices yet. Ones someone had mentioned I'd jotted
down.

With cameras, up till now, I've thought buying a good (expensive a few
years back) camera for less, used on ebay was the way to go. At least with
the ones I've bought (last 2 Epson- a 650 and 750Z(zoom) it was all I could
afford. They were 5-6 years old at the time. I suppose buying new is
probably better, for guarantees, etc.
----------------------------------------------

HP 32-C

HP deskjet 1220TX 1

Canon Pixma ip6600D phopto printer Amazon 179.00 like new
Canon Pixma ip6600D phopto printer Amazon 164.48 new
Canon Pixma ip6600D phopto printer Amazon 199.99 list

Fuji 660d

Fuji frontier

Canon 1560
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I have a pixma down 3 times (even before I read you recommedning it)
With the Lexmark printer, I learned there is much variation in price (new)
Someone who had recommended it said they bought it at Best Buy for $129 on
sale. I found it on Amazon at many different prices (new and used) and ended
up buying it NEW (from an Amazon seller) for $68 which included the
shipping. And the seller said if you needed the USB cord for it ($8
elsewhere) he'd throw one in. I had a few of them, but wasn't sure the ends
were the same (for a printer) so asked for one, and it was different than
the ones I had.

Oh, while I have EXCEL open (I just discovered I can copy/paste from
it)these are teh cameras I have down. No reason other than someone has
mentioned them (sometimes more than once) or I saw the name somewhere. the
numbers (1) after them is number that recommended them (this was in the
spreadsheet) I've been told Canon and Nikon have the best lenses. The Nikon
CoolPix 8800 I saw several places with pictures that seemed big and clear. I
haven't even checked the prices on most.

Canon PowershotS215 1
Canon EOS5D
Canon 200
Canon 300D
Nikon Coolpix8800
Panosonic Lumix DMC-F25 1 $460 with extras on ebay (someone said this)
Panosonic FZ30(230) 1
Panosonic 540 1
Sony DSC-F707 1
Sony 7828 1

Maybe there's a place online that has good prices where I could get the
printer and camera (at the same time, not together like a deal)

Thanks for all the help!

~ Carrie



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"drc023" wrote in message
...
Carrie,
From personal experience with doing a lot of printing - both offset at my
print shops and now that I'm retired from using inkjets at home for color
output. From a cost and ease of use standpoint there is no way you can
beat
the Canon Pixma series of printers. Very fast and affordable with
excellent
print quality. They are quite inexpensive to purchase and very low cost to
use if you refill the individual ink tanks - a process that's not so easy
on
some brands, but which in the case of Canon printers is so simple and easy
that anyone can do it. Check out www.nifty-stuff.com for any help or
advise
you may need regarding printing or refilling. You won't be sorry.
--
Ron

"Carrie" wrote in message
...
I know I've asked about printers before, but now am in the process of
getting a business loan to buy new/better stuff.

I'm looking at printers, around $100-150 range (or maybe more, but a
few
years old used?) injet. Something I can refill the cartridges which I
thik
Epson puts a chip in to prevent. (I know, refilled isn't good for
printing
but I do a LOT of practice printing and it works for that)

I was thinking maybe there are printers that work better with
Publisher
(2000) than others?

I now have a Lexmark 5150 All in One (which I know is cheap, but all
I
could get at the time, and I do find the photocopy- on it's own very
useful
and also the fax. The scanner is a bit small, though). Maybe it's not
true,
but I went though a lot of trying to set up the printer to work with
Publisher settings, so they wouldn't clash. Right now I have figured out
how
to print notecards, using Publisher settings, and just leaving the
Lexmark
settings default (which is 8X11- whatever paper) and it works, 2 cards
per
page.

I've got a few printers written down that have been recommended or
I've
read about, but now thinking maybe some work better with Publisiher (the
program) than others? Or, some that are hard to use with it.

Any ideas?

~ Carrie

Canon Pixma is the best value for money, and also the ink tanks are among
the cheapest on the market and lasts for a long time.
I have had HP, Epson, Lexmark and Canon. Canon forever hereafter!
My current one is a Pixma IP4000, print borderless and nice photos as well.

Regards Terje


"drc023" skrev i melding
...
Carrie,
From personal experience with doing a lot of printing - both offset at my
print shops and now that I'm retired from using inkjets at home for color
output. From a cost and ease of use standpoint there is no way you can
beat the Canon Pixma series of printers. Very fast and affordable with
excellent print quality. They are quite inexpensive to purchase and very
low cost to use if you refill the individual ink tanks - a process that's
not so easy on some brands, but which in the case of Canon printers is so
simple and easy that anyone can do it. Check out www.nifty-stuff.com for
any help or advise you may need regarding printing or refilling. You won't
be sorry.
--
Ron

"Carrie" wrote in message
...
I know I've asked about printers before, but now am in the process of
getting a business loan to buy new/better stuff.

I'm looking at printers, around $100-150 range (or maybe more, but a
few
years old used?) injet. Something I can refill the cartridges which I
thik
Epson puts a chip in to prevent. (I know, refilled isn't good for
printing
but I do a LOT of practice printing and it works for that)

I was thinking maybe there are printers that work better with Publisher
(2000) than others?

I now have a Lexmark 5150 All in One (which I know is cheap, but all I
could get at the time, and I do find the photocopy- on it's own very
useful
and also the fax. The scanner is a bit small, though). Maybe it's not
true,
but I went though a lot of trying to set up the printer to work with
Publisher settings, so they wouldn't clash. Right now I have figured out
how
to print notecards, using Publisher settings, and just leaving the
Lexmark
settings default (which is 8X11- whatever paper) and it works, 2 cards
per
page.

I've got a few printers written down that have been recommended or
I've
read about, but now thinking maybe some work better with Publisiher (the
program) than others? Or, some that are hard to use with it.

Any ideas?

~ Carrie