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12-03-2013, 08:55
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always in motion is the future
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: in paradise
Boat: Sundeer 64
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Re: Best inkjet printer for the boat
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Originally Posted by David M
If you decide to go cruising, buy two cheap inkjets for under $75 bucks each. Keep the second printer sealed in a plastic bag with dessicant. Printers are so inexpensive now they are essentially disposable items.
Newegg.com - Inkjet Printers
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I find that disputable. Why would anyone buy something so cheap that it quickly breaks down, needing replacement, and then pollutes the environment like nothing else. As long as people keep buying those, the manufacturers keep making them and making them so cheap and trash quality and the environment keeps suffering.
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12-03-2013, 09:54
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Arctic Ocean
Boat: Under construction 35' ketch (and +3 smaller)
Posts: 2,907
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Re: Best inkjet printer for the boat
The ink cartridges in new printers are maybe 1/4 filled to prevent buyer behaviour like David suggests..
And another vote for HP multifunction printers (scan-copy-print-4colour)
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12-03-2013, 10:02
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Nearly an old salt
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Lefkas Marina ,Greece
Boat: Bavaria 36
Posts: 22,801
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Re: Best inkjet printer for the boat
I always find the problem is I use them so little the cartridges dry up. I also have a HP460, great printer, but Im forever replacing cartridges that have dried up.
Dave
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12-03-2013, 10:30
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: SF Bay
Boat: O'Day 25
Posts: 100
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Re: Best inkjet printer for the boat
I bought an HP1000j for $30 at Walmart. Extra cartridges for under $25. Small, cheap, fast. Don't need much printing on a boat, I don't use it for an office. Great for printing daily weatherfax and navtex.
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12-03-2013, 10:47
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always in motion is the future
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: in paradise
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Posts: 19,826
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Re: Best inkjet printer for the boat
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Originally Posted by goboatingnow
I always find the problem is I use them so little the cartridges dry up. I also have a HP460, great printer, but Im forever replacing cartridges that have dried up.
Dave
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Exactly and that will stop when you switch to the iP100.
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12-03-2013, 10:48
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always in motion is the future
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: in paradise
Boat: Sundeer 64
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Re: Best inkjet printer for the boat
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Originally Posted by Dos Gatos
I bought an HP1000j for $30 at Walmart. Extra cartridges for under $25. Small, cheap, fast. Don't need much printing on a boat, I don't use it for an office. Great for printing daily weatherfax and navtex.
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Oh yes, I tried the $30 printers too. You'll learn that lesson sooner rather than later, but you knew that it isn't gonna last at $30 of-course
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12-03-2013, 10:52
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Brooklin, Maine U.S.A
Boat: Allures 44
Posts: 734
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Re: Best inkjet printer for the boat
If you only need a scanner to make documents, there are several Apps for your smartphone or tablet to make PDFs and what not.
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12-03-2013, 11:02
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Marathon, FL
Boat: Hans Christian 33
Posts: 652
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Re: Best inkjet printer for the boat
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Originally Posted by cfarrar
If you only need a scanner to make documents, there are several Apps for your smartphone or tablet to make PDFs and what not.
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Yeah, no need for a scanner. I do the same with my phone, or I can always use my camera and take a picture of whatever needs scanned.
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12-03-2013, 11:04
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2012
Posts: 91
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Turboscan Pro App for iPhone is awesome.
Takes a couple shots, then converts to PDF document.
Used it many times and quality is much better than old fax machines
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12-03-2013, 16:11
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always in motion is the future
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: in paradise
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hermanns
Turboscan Pro App for iPhone is awesome.
Takes a couple shots, then converts to PDF document.
Used it many times and quality is much better than old fax machines
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Sure it is, but you're not gonna make a convincing copy of your drivers license with it for example.
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12-03-2013, 17:53
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Nearly an old salt
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Lefkas Marina ,Greece
Boat: Bavaria 36
Posts: 22,801
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Quote:
Originally Posted by s/v Jedi
Exactly and that will stop when you switch to the iP100.
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Why ?
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12-03-2013, 18:41
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: SF Bay
Boat: O'Day 25
Posts: 100
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Re: Best inkjet printer for the boat
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Originally Posted by s/v Jedi
Exactly and that will stop when you switch to the iP100.
Why ?
'cause he said so.
Took 10 years to select the most awesome printer?
I've only owned 3 since 1986. A pin printer (DOS), an HP722 and the new (last year) hp1000j. Got me where I need to go.
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13-03-2013, 01:37
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: West Indies
Boat: Burger 74' motor yacht, 65 foot 12 metre, Flicka and sailing dinghy
Posts: 650
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I got a Samsung laser printer last month for $90. Cartridges last 1500 pages and cost $45.
Much nicer quality than inkjet
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13-03-2013, 02:38
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Sydney Aus
Boat: Swarbrick 40
Posts: 868
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Re: Best inkjet printer for the boat
May not be what you want to here, but the way I have bought printers, admittedly for work on construction sites, was to walk straight past the printers and into the printer cartridge aisle, find the cheapest and then go looking for the printer it belongs to.
I think the majority of printers are just a means of selling expensive printer cartridges.
My printer of choice was, from memory the Cannon IP 100 or 95. About $14 dollars for a cartridge at office works or 3 bucks down at the local car boot. Sadly, they don't make them anymore.
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13-03-2013, 10:55
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Galveston Island, Texas, USA
Boat: Amel SM 53 - BeBe
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Re: Best inkjet printer for the boat
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Originally Posted by s/v Jedi
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Cartridges for Canon are easy to get if you go beyond walking to the nearest shop. I order them on Amazon. The iP100 is sold worldwide and so are it's cartridges. Check for local Canon dealers or just Google.
Cartridges: you just buy the correct ones, i.e. with the correct article number. When you try different numbers it won't work on any brand.
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Ordering from Amazon is easier said than done if you are cruising worldwide! Friends with Canons could not buy cartridges in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India, Maldives or Turkey. As to the correct article number, that is what I tried to explain. As my friend learned, Canon makes cartridges for the same model machine but has different article numbers for cartridges to be sold in the USA and cartridges to be sold internationally for the same model machine. The international numbered cartridges will not work on a machine sold in the USA, only the cartridges with the USA article number will work.
This stuff is simple if one cruises only one geographic region. It gets more complicated when farther afield. As my friend found, international Canon cartridges would not work in her USA purchased Canon machine, even though Canon originally said they would. After higher levels of tech support at Canon the advice was that they would have to buy cartridges only in the USA for a machine purchased in the USA. Other models of Canon machines might have different requirements. But more than one cruising friend with Canon machines has discussed this cartridge problem with us. Making us very thankful that we chanced to buy a multi-function machine that uses the most commonly sold ink cartridge sold everywhere.
(Now....watch the darn think die just because I publicly stated how much we like it.)
Judy
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