Originally Posted By: andy
Originally Posted By: taym

Oh, that is so bad. I moved away from Epson specifically because of their poor head-in-printer design, and now HP is doing it too?!... So bad.
I still remember my very first inkjet printer, an Epson Stylus 800, B&W, which would use so much ink just to try (and fail most times) to unclog the printing head.

Every time I turn this new printer on it thrashes away for several minutes, presumably squirting some of my expensive ink into a bucket somewhere inside in an effort to keep the heads clean.


Yet the Epson head is by the far the best- probably the most wasteful though. It's interesting to think about what a chemistry feat it is to design ink that mixes well, doesn't dry until getting on the paper, is relatively non-toxic and looks good. Inkjet printers do more then we give them credit for but it is questionable whether everyone should really own one. Unless your printing lots of photos the economics rarely add up.