We bought a printer!

February 27th, 2006 - 4:08pm

On Saturday, I finally caved in and agreed that Justine really needs a printer this year for school. I have had no need for a printer for around the last six years and things in the world of printers have changed quite a bit.

We ended up at OfficeWorks in the torrential rain (so that was going to be our last stop) in front of a small wall of printers. We ended up getting an Epson Stylus C67, mostly because it was under a hundred bucks (excluding paper, USB cable, and all the other crap you need) and has four separate print cartridges (CMYK) which may or may not end up being a good thing. Probably good.

I also bought a 50 pack of Canon glossy photo paper to play with, since the printer has 70,653,324dpi resolution or something. The printer supposedly prints at a not-particularly-speedy 17 pages per minute but print out a 6×4 photo with a lot of strong colours, and you’ll be waiting over 5 minutes. Nice one!

Speaking of the photos, the colour reproduction is alright, as is the sharpness. However, the “depth” of the colour reproduction is not there. Imagine looking at a CRT then looking at a washed out LCD… that’s the feeling I get.

For the price though, I’m not complaining, as Justine got a printer for school and we both got an average photo printer.

Tags: justine, nerdiness, printer, school