Remember the Tektronix thread that wouldn't die?
So I got the printer...It's a Phaser 8200. This is a desktop model in pretty much pristine condition, with almost all its wax still available and everything. It's not one of those refrigerator-sized behemoths we all thought it might be. It's heavy and awkwardly shaped, but my husband carried it in from my truck and set it up for me with minimal grunting.)
A Xerox-authorized guy is coming tomorrow to re-seat a roller that was displaced by some local-yokel the previous owners called when a service-window message told them that either the halogen lamp or sensor needed help. (I know about this guy. I wouldn't trust him to open the door to my studio without breaking it. Too bad they didn't know better.) It'll cost me $110 to get the thing running again, so I figure it was a pretty good deal. We'll see.
So it's off to Craigslist with my Epson 2200 Photo. What a waste of money that thing was. It's not even heavy enough to make a good boat anchor. :-/
Mara
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Let me be clear... NEVER buy Epson ANYTHING. Especially if you're on a Mac.
I took mine in the back yard and went "Office Space" on it with a baseball bat.
Terry Thornhill
e-zign Design Group
I wouldn't use an Epson
I wouldn't use an Epson printer as a paperweight. :)
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Natobasso
"Powerpoint is not a design application"
I know. NOW they tell me....
Mara
EPSON. Short for: Everything
EPSON.
Short for: Everything Printing Shitty Or Never!
"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."
— Frank Zappa
Well that's interesting
I own a perfectly good Photo R200 that prints REALLY well!
Hmmmm diffrnt stokes for diffrnt folks.
Mind you I would have preferred a HP. . .but I got this one cheap.
"Try not, Do! or do not, there is no try."
-Yoda
interesting... I always
interesting... I always thought epson was top of the line? They always make a big deal to buy the epsons at work..
the very high end epsons
the very high end epsons were pretty good a while back. the epson 3000 was considered *the* small studio proofing device at one time.
I think that might be what
I think that might be what prompted me to think thi=e 2200 would be good for me. For one thing, it was one of the few printers that could handle the large format paper -- which of course the Phaser doesn't. I do a lot of full-bleed 11x17 stuff, so having 12 x 18 capability was going to be perfect for me. But oh well.
Mara
well... remember that the
well... remember that the 3000 was a $1000 printer (and the update to it, the 5000, was a $1500 or more printer).
i actually had the baby version of it while i was in school, the 1500. it didn't print quite as nicely as the 3000, but it had the same paper capabilities (16.5x23) and i did some pretty funky things with it (like printing on cut down grocery bags, cut down pressboard box bottoms, etc) before it finally died (print heads gave out... wonder why?).
I forget what I paid for my
I forget what I paid for my Epson. With the roller attachment for banner printouts and everything, I thought that it came to about $1500. This was maybe three years ago when I bought a lot of other equipment at the same time. It's all a blur now. It's certainly true that you get what you pay for, but it irks me that clients will come in to my studio bearing very nice color printouts of their otherwise awful logo doodlings from a cheapie HP! Yet I've had those, too, and they served only to eat expensive ink cartridges. Arrrgh.
Oh well. Enough of this. A nice repair person is on his way. Soon I'll see what I've got here.
Mara
ouch. well, good luck with
ouch.
well, good luck with this one.