ink jet recommendation for Leopard

[Gregg Dinse]

On 28 Nov 2007, at 1:49 PM, Scott Anguish wrote:

> On Nov 28, 2007, at 9:32 AM, David Herren wrote:
>
>> My old and trusty EpsonStylus C80 exploded yesterday--litterally.  
>> I have no idea why, but the black ink cartridge exploded and  
>> sprayed ink all over the interior, and it's failing to do anything  
>> even after a bit of cleaning and a new cartridge. I have an HP  
>> color laserjet at home that I lilke, but I'd like to have an  
>> inexpensive ink jet here at school for the occasional print.
>>
>> Any recommendations for Leopard? Known issues problems? In just  
>> looking at Amazon, I'm leaning to the Epson Stylus C88 at $63 (US)  
>> and there appears to be a driver for it installed by Leopard.
>
> I'll second the Canon suggestion.  The iP4xxx series have been very  
> good to me. We've got an ip4300 and an iP4200, along with an MP510.  
> And in this case it is nice that they all take the same ink  
> cartridges so we can steal from one another when the ink runs low.
>
> The ip series will print double-sided without any additional  
> hardware. The MP is a multi-function machine. They've all worked  
> well for more than 2 years now. The ip (which are not IP enabled  
> BTW) are in the $50-$60 range.

I have an HP C5180 all-in-one machine.  I like it fairly well, though  
I am still running Tiger, so I don't know how well it will work with  
Leopard.  I did get an email from HP, however, with a link to  
download the Leopard version of their software.

One thing I like about this unit is that it has built-in ethernet.   
The next model up (C6180) has both ethernet and wireless built-in.

This is a photosmart printer, and it prints photos very well (and  
fairly quickly).  It also seems to print text well, though I usually  
use our laser printer for that.  It seems to work great as a copier.   
This model does not function as a stand-alone fax machine, but the  
next model up (C6180) does.  The only thing that does not work so  
great is the scanning.  When the software works, the scans are fine,  
but the software seems a bit buggy and quits half of the time when  
scanning.

I also like that it has a built-in memory card reader that supports  
several types of digital camera memory cards.  Finally, I like that  
it has 6 different ink cartridges, so I do not need to replace all  
colors at once.

I believe that these models (Cx180) have now been replaced.  HP has  
an odd way of numbering their updated models!  I believe the Cx180  
series has been replaced with the Cy280, where y=x+1.  For example,  
the C5180 was replaced with the C6280.  The original list price for  
the C5180 was $200, but I saw it for sale at Staples for $100 this  
past week, if you can find any still in the channel.  The new line  
(Cy280) seems to be a bit cheaper than the previous line (Cx180) and  
some of them now include a built-in duplexing unit.

Gregg