09-13-2011, 12:17 AM
Sam3 wrote:
Both were decent printers in their day. I've always liked the HP 900 series printers, in fact, I still use one fairly often. The 900 series had quite a good cost per page for an inkjet, too good for HP as the next generation of inkjets used the same color cartridge, but updated the black cartridge to a smaller-capacity one.
What's nice about the Epson RX580 is that it's a multifunction device, and that it can print directly on inkjet-printable DVD's. But Epsons were more problematic regarding nozzle clogging as the printhead is in the printer, not in the cartridge as the HP's.
Yep, I just discovered that the scanner part of the RX580 still works fine, despite the fact that it's missing cartridges. But lord ... six cartridges, and you can't print if any of them are missing ?!? If there were an über-cheap source for the carts, then I'm tempted to replace them at least for this printer, because then at least you'd have a cheap all-in-one for the occasional copying job, in addition to a scanner and printer.
Edit: and yeah, I've thought about the Staples trade-in, but don't have a Staples anywhere nearby to me.