Printer-only alternatives to Pinnacle Pro901? I dont' really need the fax or scanner, but like to print a lot of black and white. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!
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I have a great suggestion, know that this feature has been disabled by Lexmark, they will send you a "Firmware update" that will make your printer completely useless. No longer will you be able to print without it drinking up your color ink and then you have to replace the color before it will print in black again. I hope for a class action suit that will help the consumer recover some of their losses from this sabotage!
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I'm not sure what you mean with this question. Can you elaborate a bit? If you mean, can you make a copy of something else, then the answer is no. This is just a printer. Not a scanner, or fax or copier.
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I have owned two of these printers: Epson 1400: one for three years and one for one. Why two - well here's the story. I did not have good results with the EPSON ink and printer. I tried different ICC profiles, I fiddled with photoshop and it became a problem. I shoot a lot of B/W infrared photos digitally - and I like the B/W look. But I'd print them out and sometimes they'd have a green tinge and then a purplish ting. Sometimes they'd be perfect. I long ago with this printer gave up on EPSON ink, cartridge by cartridge it was very expensive. So I got a bulk feed Lyson system - which works great. Still with the six colors (only one black). Still with the B/W print issues though. So I looked on the net, carefully and bought a B/W bulk system with six B/W inks. The link is here. https://carts.mercurycart.com/usa/files/index.html?action=add&code=QBT14004 NOW the printer produces wonderful prints to my eye. I use the ICC profiles and carefully use Photoshop because there are traps with in the printing menus - you need to let Photoshop do the color adjustment for instance (not the printer) and learn how to alter the ICC profiles correctly (I did this wrong for a while). Alas it took time and reading - but with my now six shades of B/W ink - this printer is fantastic for printing black. Seriously less expensive than the new B/W printers too. (I'd count myself as a serious amateur only here perhaps a pro would have a different view.)
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gah, why couldn't they just add the fax functionality to the 980!?!? I'd buy in a heartbeat... now I'm second-guessing buying the 860 because I have a lot of great old photos on film and slides that I'd like to scan. *grumble* that and I still shoot 35 on my Nikon....but I NEED a fax machine.
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I have an HP Photosmart 3210xi All-in-one and it handles scanning all of the documents I use with Home Inventory Pro. I also use Nuance PDF COnverter Professional as a software interface to scan in my inventory documents. I didn't see a need to get a separate scanner just to handle receipts. Hope this helps.
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this is an important question to have answered since many of the printers out there aren't supported and have made older models obsolete with Windows 8 (that's why I'm in the market for a new printer now).
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throw it away and buy an epson, I fought this printer for two years and never won, always something wrong with it then it stopped working altogether, I got an epson wf3500 series printer for my wifes home office and it prints better pix than the kodak ever did, and it works and is still working.
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That printer is no longer manufactured, Suggest Epson 700 printer Around $100 and prints on disc much better, faster and 1/3 the price
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I used this printer last semester in a photography class. The lab at the University of New Mexico used Epson 3880 printers. My prints both color and B&W; were equal to the Epson prints. The Canon Pixma Pro-100 is a very good printer and with the rebates, it is the best bang for your printer buck.
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I am using the FX890 dot matrix printer to print 3 part NCR invoices and it works great. I didn't know Epson made another printer for invoices.
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I made the mistake of using compatible ink in my s9000 and it started printing everything in pink. When I went to Frye's to buy a new scanner (did I mention that my old scanner died around the same time that the s9000 started printing in pink?), I found the PRO 9000. My portfolio was due for school last Thursday, and the thought of taking all my stuff to a print shop and paying $10/sq ft was enough to put me into a panic. When figuring in the cost of print shop printing, the PRO 9000 became affordable. I also got Fry's additional warranty which allows me to bring the printer back for service/replacement in the case that it breaks or stops working properly. I've printed all of my portfolio pages, and they look great. Even the ones that I printed on canson smooth bristol paper (it had some streaking, but that's what I get for not using the proper paper; it was sufficient for my immediate need). Printing on matte photo paper was SPECTACULAR! Why upgrade if you're not in a portfolio pinch? The s9000 had nice output, but the pro9000 is pretty spectacular. Also, you can print up to 14x17 paper, not that canon advertises this, but I've been doing it. The printer also closes up when it's not in use so there is no paper feed to allow dust and other miscellaneous crud to fall into the printer when it's not in use. I would only use the OEM printer cartridges with this printer. I've obviously had some bad luck using compatible replacement cartridges. Yes, they cost less, but I'm convinced that's why the s9000 only prints in shades of pink now.
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I use a Brother J825DW, a multifunction, wireless printer that is relatively cheap right here on Amazon. The quality, even when printing to discs, is exceptionally good. After using this printer at home for a few months, I replaced all the printers at work with the same model. Being able to replace each color ink cartridge individually was a huge, huge plus!
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Sorry, I am a life long Mac person, but I would think a printer of this brand and price point would be. Suggest you Google your question. Also you might try to find a PC users group online and post your question there.
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Ah, yes, a very good question. As far as I know you cannot. I have searched and cannot find a way. If I remember correctly, the older version of the Pinnacle software did allow it and am not sure why it was discontinued. If anyone else knows a way, I too, would be interested in hearing it. Sorry, Alan.
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Carl! I just did it... took out the color cartridge and it printed a B/W image....hey thank YOU it is good to know just for general purposes. BTW it is darn good little printer and if you can find it on sale as I did (40 bucks) also there is a vendor here that sells both cartridges for under 20 bucks including shipping...they wanted 48 bucks at Staples for the dang cartridges themselves for cryin' out loud........:>}
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I have a 3520 (which I think is essentially the same printer) and it does work, but you might not get all of the features since the entire epson software suite is not installed. It actually works well (2530 and 3520) and finds the printer on the network...you can scan and print easily. What I think you lose are features like scan to PDF...not sure if you can do duplex (scanning and printing), use the ADF, things like that. But, for both basic print and scan I think this will work fine (assuming it is the same as the 3520).
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My 610 works and produces above the norm consistently, had it since 2007 and I've had HP's, Epson's , etc and what really makes the 610 shine is to scan, save to desktop, and attach to an email, documents, photos, text and flawlessy. In fact I got Canons website for upgrades for software etc. and thought why??????????????. If it ain't broke........................Good all around every day machine but a photo above 8x10 should be handled by a Canon, I believe 9000 pro or an Epson 3880 for superior print quality!