Candace,
I have been using an Epson Stylus Photo R800 for more than four years, and
it has never failed, only requiring ink refills. I use regular Epson
refills from Atlantic Exchange in Florida, so I know nothing of its
compatibility with your inks. It has the hardware to handle printing on CDs
and DVDs. There are several sources available on-line. Just a thought.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Candace Lemarr" <CandaceRocks@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 4:53 PM
Subject: [OM] OT: Printers
>
> This is totally off topic, but there is so much knowledge here that I
> am hoping someone can help me with a not so fun problem I am having.
> I need a new home printer, I will give some background in a moment.
> The printer needs to print "decent" photos for proof sheets and home
> snapshots. All professional printing I have done at a lab.
> The printer needs to print on CDs/DVDs.
> The printer cannot be an HP, unless someone knows something that
> counters my experience, as my experience is that the cd/dvd print
> software is absolutely horrible, no flexibility, you cannot change
> fonts or font size, or move text and images around. You are locked
> into their print layout.
> Over the past 6 years, for home photo printing and cd/dvd printing I
> have used Epson printers. The first one was a very basic model that
> lasted about 5 years, not one problem, until one day my computer
> announced "your Epson printer has reached the end of it's life cycle."
> and that was the end of that.
> I then purchased the Epson Artisan 700. I absolutely loved it. Not one
> single problem with it. Until, one day, after not quite 7 months of
> usage, it simply would not feed any paper other than plain white
> paper. Nothing. Epson's customer service was/is non-existent, and I
> returned the printer to Sam's Club for a full refund, as I had
> purchased the Sam's Club warranty for a very minimal fee. As is often
> the case, no one in town sold the Artisan 700 anymore. This was on
> September 27th of this year.
> I had/have 2 entire sets of cartridges full of Claria ink, the 99 and
> 98 series. The only printer in this town that used those as of
> September 27th was the very new Epson Artisan 810 at Office Depot. It
> wasn't even listed in their store yet, or out on the shelves, but a
> salesperson had seen them come in and got one for me to look at. I
> decided to purchase it. Well, today, it died the exact same death as
> the Artisan 700. After an hour long phone conversation with Epson, in
> which I was treated like a complete moron until they decided that I
> just might be right about the fact that the printer wasn't working,
> Epson so kindly (heavy sarcasm) offered to ship me a replacement. I
> asked if it would be a new model or a refurbished one, and the
> implication the conversation gave was that if they didn't have a
> refurbished one, then I would get a new one. But first, I would need
> to give them my credit card so they could charge me for the new one,
> and then refund my money after they received my broken one in return.
> I was no where near ok with that solution. I called Office Depot, was
> told they had one in stock and that I could exchange mine. I went down
> there, and the "one they had in stock" was the display unit that they
> were not allowed to sell to me. (One wonders what is wrong with people
> these days, but that's another topic for another day). After some
> dithering, they decided they would refund me my money, even though I
> had the printer for more than 14 days. (??!!) I had purchased the
> extended warranty, so they wanted to ship it off for repairs, not
> refund my money. The only printer they had that would do photos and
> print on CDs/DVDs is an HP, again, the CD print software that comes
> with the HP is horrible, in my opinion. In fact, all comments I can
> find online about HP's cd print software confirms that opinion.
> Anyhow...so here I am, stuck, with no printer.
> Does anyone have personal experience, recommendations, warnings, etc
> that I can consider?
> You have no idea how sorely tempted I was to chuck that Artisan 810
> through my front window, but this would have only caused me more
> frustration. It would seem that one should get more than 3 weeks use
> out of something one paid more than $300.00 for. I am rather
> frustrated.
> On another note, I have had two different salespeople tell me recently
> that "rollers drying out and not working anymore is a real problem in
> Colorado". Is there any truth at all to this?
> If you bother reading this and replying, I thank you in advance.
> A very frustrated Candace in Colorado.
>
> Candace
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