I dont think you can get a prescription for that ;-)

fotografer wrote:
> Brendan,
>
> You must be new to this forum.
>
> There is a printer review recently and I can't remember the link,
> but generally Epson 1290 use combined colour cart, that is all
> colours are packaged into one cart, that means whenever one colour
> first finishes (generally it's light magenta or light cyan) then
> you have to replace the other 4 or 5 half-empty cart with it! This
> is definitely not cost-effective.
>
> Canon s9000 uses individual carts, so you replace only those you
> need to replace. From the calculations, Canon s9000, compared even
> with the individual cart Epson 2200 (unlike Epson 1290, 2200 is
> individual carts), Canon running cost is still lower, as reported
> by the real users in this forum.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Be aware, two possible problems that *may* be associated with the
> S9000. If you are unlucky, then your printhead may exhibit what is
> known as banding (stripes of light and dark color 'lines' on solid
> colour areas). The North American customers are given warranty to
> the printheads, but I am not sure of the rest of the world, like
> the UK, for instance. If not, you may have to buy a new printhead,
> which will be extra hidden cost. And right now, since s9000 is
> relatively new, you can't get printhead off the shelf until perhaps
> another 6 months or so. But this is a big IF. There are plenty of
> users out there without this problem.
>
> Another is prints that may gas fade under some circumstances. Since
> you are comparing between 1290 and s9000, both are dye-based, and
> 1290 is a successor to the ill-fated 1270, where there are
> orange-shift problems in some places, just like what the some
> (although again, this is small) present Canon s9000 users are
> facing now. If you don't plan to sell your prints, or give them to
> friends for keepsake, or use the right archival papers like Ilford
> Galarie Classic series, then this problem, if ever, will be
> minimised...
>
> BTW, I am not a Canonite, or Epsonite. I am, if you like, a HP-ite
> (been using HP almost exclusively for 12 years now)...
>
> Brendan Harron wrote:
> > I have £400 to spend on a printer which will give me photo-quality
> > prints. After a lot of looking, I have whittled my choice down to
> > two printers, the Canon S9000 and the Epson 1290. Which is better?
> > All the reports that I have read seem to suggest that there's no
> > real difference in output quality so I'm interrested in the cost of
> > running each printer. Speed doesn't really matter very much.
> > Can anyone give me the benefit of their experience?
> > Thanx.
> > --
> > Brendan H.
>
> --
> Fotografer