Home Printing (part one)

Continuous Ink Supply System, I'm using an inkflow setup at the moment.

Dave, I would keep and use your old HP - the quality is good on HP Premium photo paper and you would probably need to spend quite a sum to get better. Have you tried using the 351 colour with the 348 photo cartridge? - this 6 ink pairing can give very good results. I am still using a much older HP 7760 printer (2004) which still prints well. One advantage is that OEM cartridges for the older printers often appear cheaply on eBay - and with these simple printers we get a new print head with each fresh cartridge.

Philip

I've had Epson 1270 and 1290. Both gave long service but died of the dreaded pink stripes disease. I now have a Canon A3+ 9000 mkii. It's lovely quality and generally happy with the colours but the pukka canon ink is ruinously expensive (roughly £1 per millilitre or £1000 per litre!). The forums say that CISS systems and 9000's do not play nicely with each other (lots of good advice on nifty-stuff.com), so I plan to get a chip resetter and some quality inks to refill my cartridges using the syringe method, which apparently works well with these printers.

Paul

Just to add a comment about A3 printers. I bought the Canon iX6550 and checked the print quality using this site - http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/article_pages/black_and_white_test.html and http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/article_pages/test_images.html the download is about a quarter down the page.

The B&W image when viewed in bright light is in my opinion very good, not had chance to really check the colour one yet. I also am using Black Diamond paper with good results including A3 size.

I look around for the best deals in ink and just stick to originals as the printouts will then be consistent.

I read some pretty negative comments concerning the ix6550 and black and white prints. But I bought one anyway Its a cracking printer and I cant fault the results from it, be them colour or B+W. It replaced an Epson R2400 which was class leading, and I'm more than happy with the 6550's results.