I saw a demo of the S800 and spent an hour speaking with the Canon rep two
weekends ago. It's got no built-in card-reading capability, but very, very
good photo printing capabilities indeed. My S450 does OK, but this was
significantly better, IMHO. He invited me to bring in a file to print. Maybe
I'll give that a whirl this weekend, time permitting.
What it does have is higher dpi capability than equivalent Epsons.
2400x1200, some 35-odd percent more than the Epson. Couple that with lower
(theoretically) ink replacement cost due to separate (and chipless) color
tanks and I think Canon's gonna sell me my third BubbleJet in 10+ years.
Interestingly, the first inkjet printer I ever saw was a Canon. It was a
"stealth" release of their first BubbleJet to the company where I worked for
evaluation a couple of months before its general announcement, somewhere
back in the 80s. We liked 'em then, too. :-)
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Scott gOMez (better, tOM?)
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Barker [mailto:imagopus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Subject: Re: [OM] Epson Printers - advice wanted
The race seems to be between Canon and Epson at present. In the
latest edition of MacFormat in the UK they plumped for the Canon S800
for its combination of high quality with speed - but they
acknowledged that the price was a major factor (£300).
The Epson 895, on the other hand, is much cheaper at about £180, but
is slower as well. If you don't need the ability to read a memory
card (for no-computer transfer from digicam to print), the 890 is
cheaper at about £150 - that last is my information by the way.
Chris
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