Which printable media for quality print?

[overloaded_ide]

Not to go OT but I have to disagree with several things.

First, BB employees normally are dumb as a rock is true! Goes for about anywhere though. Buying a printer sir, would you like fries with that?

I talked to a Canon rep myself a few weeks ago ALOT about printers, he's the one that clued me in on the europe disk printer from Canon.

I know there is a new Canon I am interested in comming out soon, think he said middle next month. I forget if it has anything to do with disk printing or not, it might. It is supposed to do double sided printing. Prints first side then feeds sheet back in and print second side! No more printing even pages then flipping them over and feeding back through for odds and having sheets stick together getting page numbers out of whack like almost every printer I ever had has done! Haven't tried that on my I850 for double sided yet.

Canon does make great printers! I print more in a month normally than most people in a year and my I850 is still like new after a more than 1 1/2 years I geuss? Forgot how long I had it, and still refilling the original tanks!! BEEN ALONG TIME!! Never a clogged head or nozzle, never feed 2 sheets at once, etc.. I burn out anythig else in 6 months or less for decent cheap printers, even killed a XEROX in less than a year!

As far as patent on loading device or anything else, all they have to do is make a differnt design! If Epson, Canon, Hp, etc.. can all make paper printers then they can all make Disk printers. They just each need their own design! I am sure that is not a patent problem. Like epson has a market on ALL rear load prnters or something? I don't think so!
And a tractor feed caddy is not made by epson that I know of so that would be a great idea right there that would aviod any patent issues and make a more reliable printer for disks too!
Or make a disk only printer that does not do paper, etc...
So not patents issue I am certain.

[jaxxboss]

Ya know, with Epson cornering the market on inkjet printables, I'm surprised there are as many companys making inkjet printable dvd discs.

[GizmoTheGremlin]

Ya know, with Epson cornering the market on inkjet printables, I'm surprised there are as many companys making inkjet printable dvd discs.

Sure, but keep in mind that IF Epson did corner the market, it is only in the U.S., and most media is made in other countries (Japan, Taiwan, etc..)

As far as patent on loading device or anything else, all they have to do is make a differnt design!

I agree with you, and I would imagine that would have to be in the minds of Canon developers as well. It is only a matter of time before they come out with a CD/DVD printer here in the U.S. I can only assume that the i865 was just to similar to Epsons patent, so they could only release it where it wasn't an issue.

I must say that I have no clue where the Best Buy kid got his information. I assumed it was from a Canon rep, but he could have made it up on the spot. I would love to talk to an actual Canon rep, but I don't know any, so I'll have to wait till the new line of printers come out. I'm sure that the rep's will be all over the place then.

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Hang out at the Best BUY stores awhile, you may meet one of the reps
I have met reps for various companies at Best Buys in various areas over the years. Sometimes the reps really know their stuff, but then I have had a few wonder in amazement when I explain things to them about the products they represent that they did not know also!!

The canon rep I talked to seemed to know his stuff pretty well.

[dmagic1]

I think my old epson was about 8 years old. I had it at the same time I had my 200mhz.