Master of the Zen ([info]mark_landon) wrote,
@ 2005-08-10 12:22:00
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Current mood:Disgruntled

Dangit
I hate my technical inexpertise. 10 years ago I knew a lot about computers. I could run the heck out of a 486 processor, Windows 3.1 and DOS too. But technology has completely passed me by. Last night I bought a Canon iP90 inkjet printer, which is supposed to be way good. The sample pictures looked great and the guy assured me my piddly Word documents would come out crystal clear. I just printed some stuff in Word and it's not impressing me. When you look close you can see smudges on all the letters and straight lines look pretty bad too. My office-mate's old crusty HP laserjet prints way better than this. His docs have 0 smudge. Worthy of being filed in a reputable place of business. My stuff looks like crap. Well, not crap, but definitely not crisp and clear. I think there's probably a setting that I need to tweak to tell it to print high quality, maybe? I tried Draft Output and it wasn't any better. Surely this $250 printer doesn't suck this bad. I don't think I screwed anything up putting in the print head and ink cartridges. Argh...


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[info]mr_sun
2005-08-10 10:36 am UTC (link)
Look for a setting that allows you to select the paper type.
Try a better paper. (this is probably not it though.)
And in the end remember, an old Laser runs circles around a inkjet for text. The trade off is your inkjet will excel at pictures. *And certainly should be very good at text too.)

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[info]mark_landon
2005-08-10 02:30 pm UTC (link)
It's not bad text, just on closer inspection the letters aren't as crystal clear as I thought I was going to get. My buddy's laserjet prints text that looks like a magazine--no trace of smudging. But it's also a lot slower than my inkjet. Oh well...shows how much I know...I thought inkjets were supposed to be superior to laserjets.

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[info]mr_sun
2005-08-10 04:17 pm UTC (link)
You may try better quality paper. This might make a bit of difference.

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[info]terrylj
2005-08-10 07:58 pm UTC (link)
It's the other way round. Laser for text, inkjet for pictures, because nobody can afford a color laser printer.

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[info]terrylj
2005-08-11 09:00 am UTC (link)
To be more clear--it's the other way around, in that laser is much superior to inkjet. And you could probably afford a B&W laser printer for your letters. But a color laser printer for pictures is not in anybody's budget range that I know. However, a good inkjet printer can make very good color prints from a good camera. I print all my scrapbook pages out on an inkjet printer. The skin tones come out a little spotty at first, but once it dries, it looks great.

Overall, given the cost of ink and photo paper and the hassle of setting your pictures up just right so that you don't waste lots of paper, it may be easier and cheaper to have your photos printed at Wal-Mart. You can't tell the difference between film prints and digital prints that way.

/too much info on print options

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[info]sunbrae
2005-08-10 10:52 am UTC (link)
Hey - I miss talking to you. If you have the time/inclination, could you email me a time when it would be convenient to chat? Because I keep missing you when I'm online. I need my Mark fix! Heh.

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[info]the_golden_fool
2005-08-10 06:02 pm UTC (link)
did you align the cartriges and print a test page??? that usually works

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