Printer ratings

Is a Corolla a better car than a Maserati? It is cheaper, more reliable and
gets better gas mileage.
Which would you rather have?
This is the mindset of Consumer Reports and has been for decades.
I have rarely agreed with any of their conclusions about technologic gear if
I was knowledeable about the subject.
I will stay with Epson printers. I have a pretty good Canon printer too but
when it dies I have no plans to buy another. And outside of business laser
printers I cannot understand why anyone would buy an HP printer for any
reason whatsoever.
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Steve m... wrote:
 > Hey, anyone see the newest Consumer Reports ? Looks like HP tops the charts
 > for Inkjet printing. 5 out of the top 6 are HP. The bottom ones are all
 > Epson. lol... Canon just below the HP ones.
 >
 > Steve m..
 >
 >
No surprise. HP does have an experience advantage in the field. My
experiences with HP inkjet printers has been uniformly exemplary. Note
my printers are never turned off. Many inkjet printers will do a print
head cleaning on a timer to prevent clogging.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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Frederick wrote:
 > Steve m... wrote:
 >
  >> Hey, anyone see the newest Consumer Reports ? Looks like HP tops the
  >> charts for Inkjet printing. 5 out of the top 6 are HP. The bottom
  >> ones are all Epson. lol... Canon just below the HP ones.
  >>
  >> Steve m..
  >>
 > One assumes that these reports are based on printing documents in the
 > office, and kid's homework projects. Do you have a serious link to
 > confirm the above for photo printing?

Considering the popularity of photo printing these days, I can't imagine
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birdman wrote:
 > Is a Corolla a better car than a Maserati? It is cheaper, more reliable and
 > gets better gas mileage.
 > Which would you rather have?
 > This is the mindset of Consumer Reports and has been for decades.
 > I have rarely agreed with any of their conclusions about technologic gear if
 > I was knowledeable about the subject.
 > I will stay with Epson printers. I have a pretty good Canon printer too but
 > when it dies I have no plans to buy another. And outside of business laser
 > printers I cannot understand why anyone would buy an HP printer for any
 > reason whatsoever.
 >
 >
the Corolla. Couldn't afford the insurance on the Maserati!
I agree on CR and high tech stuff. They don't seem to know much about
computers in general, rating ones with easy setup higher than ones with
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In article <k_m4e.15282$7b.3712@trndny05>,
Steve m... <Stevem5215.TakeThisOut@PLEASEno_spam_.com> wrote:
 >Hey, anyone see the newest Consumer Reports ? Looks like HP tops the charts
 >for Inkjet printing. 5 out of the top 6 are HP. The bottom ones are all
 >Epson. lol... Canon just below the HP ones.

That seems to be somewhat at odds with received wisodm w.r.t. photo
printers, that being that HP is third in a two horse race.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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"Chris Brown" <cpbrown.DeleteThis@ntlworld.no_uce_please.com> wrote:
 > Steve m... <Stevem5215.DeleteThis@PLEASEno_spam_.com> wrote:
  > >Hey, anyone see the newest Consumer Reports ? Looks like HP tops the
charts
  > >for Inkjet printing. 5 out of the top 6 are HP. The bottom ones are all
  > >Epson. lol... Canon just below the HP ones.
 >
 > That seems to be somewhat at odds with received wisodm w.r.t. photo
 > printers, that being that HP is third in a two horse race.

Yes. But note that both Roger Clark and Rafe B. like their HP printers...

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In article <d2tm1e$obf$2@nnrp.gol.com>,
David J. Littleboy <davidjl.RemoveThis@gol.com> wrote:
 >
 >"Chris Brown" <cpbrown.RemoveThis@ntlworld.no_uce_please.com> wrote:
  >> Steve m... <Stevem5215.RemoveThis@PLEASEno_spam_.com> wrote:
   >> >Hey, anyone see the newest Consumer Reports ? Looks like HP tops the
 >charts
   >> >for Inkjet printing. 5 out of the top 6 are HP. The bottom ones are all
   >> >Epson. lol... Canon just below the HP ones.
  >>
  >> That seems to be somewhat at odds with received wisodm w.r.t. photo
  >> printers, that being that HP is third in a two horse race.
 >
 >Yes. But note that both Roger Clark and Rafe B. like their HP printers...

I don't have any recent experience with them, tbh, I was just somewhat
surprised by the claim, as it seems that they've had quite a hill to climb.

OTOH, I just jumped ship from Epson (clog one more time you cretinous
machine, I dare you), to Canon, and am massively impressed by how far things
have moved since my 1290 was "cutting edge", so I suspect that any current
printer from the 3 of them will give reuslts that most people would be
entirely happy with.

The reasons I chose Canon, rather than sticking with Epson, are clogging and
print speed (and damn, this thing is *fast* even without using Firewire),
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Chris Brown wrote:
 > In article <k_m4e.15282$7b.3712@trndny05>,
 > Steve m... <Stevem5215 DeleteThis @PLEASEno_spam_.com> wrote:
 >
  >>Hey, anyone see the newest Consumer Reports ? Looks like HP tops the charts
  >>for Inkjet printing. 5 out of the top 6 are HP. The bottom ones are all
  >>Epson. lol... Canon just below the HP ones.
 >
 >
 > That seems to be somewhat at odds with received wisodm w.r.t. photo
 > printers, that being that HP is third in a two horse race.
Only is you don't have an HP, and only if that is the ONLY criteria.
Most of us use our printers for printing text and illustrations as well.


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On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 06:10:08 GMT, in rec.photo.digital , "birdman"
<apquilts.RemoveThis@pacbell.net> in
<4Zp4e.9380$FN4.3738@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com> wrote:

 >Is a Corolla a better car than a Maserati? It is cheaper, more reliable and
 >gets better gas mileage.
 >Which would you rather have?
 >This is the mindset of Consumer Reports and has been for decades.

What? The specification of the job and the testing of the product to
see if it does the job? Yep.

 >I have rarely agreed with any of their conclusions about technologic gear if
 >I was knowledeable about the subject.

Have you done the kind of cross-product extensive testing? My only
complain has been that the products tend to change so fast that the
reports are out of date.

 >I will stay with Epson printers. I have a pretty good Canon printer too but
 >when it dies I have no plans to buy another. And outside of business laser
 >printers I cannot understand why anyone would buy an HP printer for any
 >reason whatsoever.



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On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 23:58:45 GMT, in rec.photo.digital , John A.
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 >On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 02:46:40 GMT, "Steve m..."
 ><Stevem5215 RemoveThis @PLEASEno_spam_.com> wrote:
 >
  >>Hey, anyone see the newest Consumer Reports ? Looks like HP tops the charts
  >>for Inkjet printing. 5 out of the top 6 are HP. The bottom ones are all
  >>Epson. lol... Canon just below the HP ones.
 >
 >I've never found the people doing Consumer Reports to have any idea
 >about quality products. I'm sure they would have rated a Kodak Pony
 >135 over a Lecia.

How about you complain about something they actually did rather than a
fantasy.


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On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 10:30:51 GMT, Chris Brown
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 >The reasons I chose Canon, rather than sticking with Epson, are clogging and
 >print speed (and damn, this thing is *fast* even without using Firewire),
 >but mainly clogging. I must admit that I didn't really consider an HP.

For me, HP would be out of the running as long as they use all-in-one
color cartridges. My current Epson uses them, and I'm probably going
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