Nanor
Well-Known Member
My dad recently retired and has decided to pursue his hobby of genealogy and general Irish history. Read: pages and pages and pages and pages and pages. He's come to the discovery his Kodak ESP C310 is a massive, massive pile of shite. The print quality is abysmal and cartridge life seems to be literally about 25 pages. I've told him ink jets are a pile of crap and he ought to look into a laser jet as the initial offset will save you a fortune in the long run. He's finally taking my advice on board.
It has to be reasonably priced. He's aware the toner and the printer itself will cost quite a bit but he still doesn't want to fork out a fortune. He'll probably expect to print out somewhere in the region of ten sheets a weekin colour. The smaller it is the better, too. Preferably he'd like to have as little proprietary software and driver packages to install as possible, especially one that isn't written by interns in a week. Basically something a retired, casual computer user can operate with little to no maintenance (i.e. little to no ringing me every week).
Have any of you any wisdom to impart? Am I right in saying all ink jets are crap or am I throwing the baby out with the bath water?
EDIT: Scratch the colour, black and white is fine.
It has to be reasonably priced. He's aware the toner and the printer itself will cost quite a bit but he still doesn't want to fork out a fortune. He'll probably expect to print out somewhere in the region of ten sheets a week
Have any of you any wisdom to impart? Am I right in saying all ink jets are crap or am I throwing the baby out with the bath water?
EDIT: Scratch the colour, black and white is fine.