My horrible Epson R800 has died what do I get?

[wlaidlaw]

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After close to four years of feeding the horrible thing huge amounts of ink at vast cost, most of which gets squirted down the cleaning tubes and having it chew up or un-reel whole reels of premium semi gloss paper, my Epson R800 has finally died. It will now only print in black and white or green and white. What do I replace it with. I think my choices come down to the HP B9180 or Canon Pixma Pro 9500 at considerably more cost. what do the panel think? I am leaning towards HP because of the excellent service I got from them last year when in France. The HP Business Ink-Jet 1200D I have down there, died after sending it a corrupted Acrobat file. Within an hour of phoning their UK help line HP had emailed me a USB downloadable firmware update and clearing file, which solved the problem - now that is what I call service.

 

Wilson

[Guest flatfour]

I've had my HP B9180 several months now . No problems as yet and the quality is excellent and particularly Black and White.

[wlaidlaw]

I've had my HP B9180 several months now . No problems as yet and the quality is excellent and particularly Black and White.

 

Anthony,

 

Do you use the HP on a Mac or PC. One beef I had with the Epson on a Mac in comparison to the PC I used to have it on, is that it seemed to be impossible to load paper maker's profiles. On a PC it was very easy. You just ran the paper makers install tool e.g. Ilford Smooth Pearl and they appeared on a drop down list when you opened the print configuration window. I am sure there must be a way of doing it on a Mac but it is not obvious. There is nothing in my "bible" - OS-X Tiger - The Missing Manual. I hope the HP might have a better print profiling tool for Mac than the Epson seemed to have.

 

Wilson