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Requesting Help with Injet Printer Selection - HP C5180 or Canon Pixma MP530?
These printers are available from COSTCO.
Hi, I need a replacement multifunction inkjet printer (print/scan but fax isn't necessary). I've owned two HP multifunction printers, most recently HP 2351, but both of them developed paper feed problems. After spending a couple of hours trying to fix it, including browsing the HP website, I decided to cut my losses and get a new printer. I mainly print text and only occasionally use color and infrequently print photos and scan infrequently but need good results when I use it. Can I refill the inkjet cartridges on the HP C5180 and the Canon Pixma MP530? If so, which ink is recommended? I read pigment inks are best. CNET prefers the Pixma MP530 over the C5180. I'd like to hear from people who have used these printers. Thanks, Mike |
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Requesting Help with Injet Printer Selection - HP C5180 or Canon Pixma MP530?
"Mike" wrote in message news:h5Kih.11569$386.4191@trndny01... These printers are available from COSTCO. Hi, I need a replacement multifunction inkjet printer (print/scan but fax isn't necessary). I've owned two HP multifunction printers, most recently HP 2351, but both of them developed paper feed problems. After spending a couple of hours trying to fix it, including browsing the HP website, I decided to cut my losses and get a new printer. I mainly print text and only occasionally use color and infrequently print photos and scan infrequently but need good results when I use it. Can I refill the inkjet cartridges on the HP C5180 and the Canon Pixma MP530? If so, which ink is recommended? I read pigment inks are best. CNET prefers the Pixma MP530 over the C5180. I'd like to hear from people who have used these printers. Thanks, Mike Alternatively, get out the screwdriver and rough-up (okay, de-glaze) the transport rollers which usually cause paper-feed problems - particularly with HPs. RM |
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Requesting Help with Injet Printer Selection - HP C5180 or Canon Pixma MP530?
And lo, Mike emerged from the ether
and spake thus: These printers are available from COSTCO. Hi, I need a replacement multifunction inkjet printer (print/scan but fax isn't necessary). I've owned two HP multifunction printers, most recently HP 2351, but both of them developed paper feed problems. After spending a couple of hours trying to fix it, including browsing the HP website, I decided to cut my losses and get a new printer. Bottom line: no multi-function device will ever be as good at any one of those functions as a single device would be. -- Aaron http://www.fisheyegallery.com http://www.singleservingphoto.com |
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Requesting Help with Injet Printer Selection - HP C5180 or Canon Pixma MP530?
"Roger Moss" wrote in message ... Alternatively, get out the screwdriver and rough-up (okay, de-glaze) the transport rollers which usually cause paper-feed problems - particularly with HPs. The printer is gone. I didnm't use it more than than two dozen times for a total of twenty four printed sheets max. |
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Requesting Help with Injet Printer Selection - HP C5180 or CanonPixma MP530?
Aaron wrote:
And lo, Mike emerged from the ether and spake thus: These printers are available from COSTCO. Hi, I need a replacement multifunction inkjet printer (print/scan but fax isn't necessary). I've owned two HP multifunction printers, most recently HP 2351, but both of them developed paper feed problems. After spending a couple of hours trying to fix it, including browsing the HP website, I decided to cut my losses and get a new printer. Bottom line: no multi-function device will ever be as good at any one of those functions as a single device would be. Not necessarily so with Canon multifunction printers. Many share the same print engines as their dedicated photo printers. Case in point is the MP780 and the iP4000. We have both and each print photos with identical quality. They even use the exact same print head. In general, most of Canon's multifunction inkjets are very capable, and fast, photo printers. |
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Requesting Help with Injet Printer Selection - HP C5180 orCano...
The Canon mp950 is as good as their single units, but it costs 400 so it
should be. |
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Requesting Help with Injet Printer Selection - HP C5180 or Canon Pixma MP530?
"Michael Johnson" wrote in message ... Not necessarily so with Canon multifunction printers. Many share the same print engines as their dedicated photo printers. Case in point is the MP780 and the iP4000. We have both and each print photos with identical quality. They even use the exact same print head. In general, most of Canon's multifunction inkjets are very capable, and fast, photo printers. CNET reviews prefers the Pixma 530 over the HP C5180. How difficult is it to refill the Canon cartridges? |
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Requesting Help with Injet Printer Selection - HP C5180 or CanonPixma MP530?
Mike wrote:
"Michael Johnson" wrote in message ... Not necessarily so with Canon multifunction printers. Many share the same print engines as their dedicated photo printers. Case in point is the MP780 and the iP4000. We have both and each print photos with identical quality. They even use the exact same print head. In general, most of Canon's multifunction inkjets are very capable, and fast, photo printers. CNET reviews prefers the Pixma 530 over the HP C5180. How difficult is it to refill the Canon cartridges? Canon cartridges are probably the easiest to refill of any brand, even their chipped cartridges. On the chipped ones you will lose the ink monitoring capability by refilling the OEM carts but the cost savings over OEM is huge. Refilling runs less than $1 per cartridge and new OEM chipped cartridges are going for about $15 each. You will save enough on one set of refilled carts to buy a new printer! We have only non-chipped Canon printers and I get prefilled BCI-6 cartridges for about $1.70 each shipped to my door. For that price refilling isn't worth the hassles. There are some solutions coming to the market for the chipped printers but they are new and relatively untested at this point. IMO, the best deal by far is to try and get a new, or refurbished, Canon printer that uses the BCI-6 cartridges. For multifunction units the Canon MP780 is very hard to beat for home/small office use. I have used an MP780 (same print engine as the iP4000) for the past 1.5 years and it has performed flawlessly. I don't hesitate to recommend it to others. |
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Requesting Help with Injet Printer Selection - HP C5180 or Canon Pixma MP530?
"Michael Johnson" wrote in message Canon cartridges are probably the easiest to refill of any brand, even their chipped cartridges. On the chipped ones you will lose the ink monitoring capability by refilling the OEM carts but the cost savings over OEM is huge. Refilling runs less than $1 per cartridge and new OEM chipped cartridges are going for about $15 each. You will save enough on one set of refilled carts to buy a new printer! We have only non-chipped Canon printers and I get prefilled BCI-6 cartridges for about $1.70 each shipped to my door. For that price refilling isn't worth the hassles. There are some solutions coming to the market for the chipped printers but they are new and relatively untested at this point. IMO, the best deal by far is to try and get a new, or refurbished, Canon printer that uses the BCI-6 cartridges. For multifunction units the Canon MP780 is very hard to beat for home/small office use. I have used an MP780 (same print engine as the iP4000) for the past 1.5 years and it has performed flawlessly. I don't hesitate to recommend it to others. I'll try to find out if the MP530 uses BCI-6 cartridges. Which brand ink do you use to refill the cartridges? |
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Requesting Help with Injet Printer Selection - HP C5180 or CanonPixma MP530?
Mike wrote:
"Michael Johnson" wrote in message Canon cartridges are probably the easiest to refill of any brand, even their chipped cartridges. On the chipped ones you will lose the ink monitoring capability by refilling the OEM carts but the cost savings over OEM is huge. Refilling runs less than $1 per cartridge and new OEM chipped cartridges are going for about $15 each. You will save enough on one set of refilled carts to buy a new printer! We have only non-chipped Canon printers and I get prefilled BCI-6 cartridges for about $1.70 each shipped to my door. For that price refilling isn't worth the hassles. There are some solutions coming to the market for the chipped printers but they are new and relatively untested at this point. IMO, the best deal by far is to try and get a new, or refurbished, Canon printer that uses the BCI-6 cartridges. For multifunction units the Canon MP780 is very hard to beat for home/small office use. I have used an MP780 (same print engine as the iP4000) for the past 1.5 years and it has performed flawlessly. I don't hesitate to recommend it to others. I'll try to find out if the MP530 uses BCI-6 cartridges. Which brand ink do you use to refill the cartridges? The MP530 uses the new chipped cartridges. I buy cartridges from he https://www.neximaging.com/ |
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