What is the Best Printer for You?
I was introduced to computers back in the good old days of 1992 - with a back -n - white monitor and 512 MB Hard Disk Drive driven PC. I just played the Packman game all the time then. I was still in college and when I reached university standard - the technology as it is has developed by leaps and bounds. Now came the printer. After finishing my graduation - and looking after all the option - I took up a job in an entertainment service center ( that offered virtual reality games, bowling, and many more) as a Customer Care Executive which was still an alien name to Indian business world. Due to my affinity with computers and my diploma in multimedia, my main responsibility at the job was to make t-shirt with the clients photo pasted on it instantly and the idea was also very new to India.
Although I handled computers and had training in the field - I was still not very good with printing technology. I just knew from my training that there were two types of printers at that time - dot-matrix and inkjet printers (laser printers came to market much later) . While dot-matrix required ink and ribbons, the inkjet required ink cartridges. So when my boss asked me what printer to buy for the business, I couldn’t give a definitive answer. What I said was - buy an inkjet printer as it was easy to operate and should be suitable for photo printing. But I didn’t know which of the three ( HP, Epson and Lexmark) brands available to buy! After consulting the experts we decided to buy the Epson inkjet. Now arose another problem as I had no idea how many photo we could print with Epson ink cartrides as they were quite costly at that time.
It was a time before even Google was born! There have been many years that have gone by.Technologies improved beyond recognition, new innovations have been made - but till now I am sure that there is nothing beyond an Epson inkjet printer that could give better photo quality than its competitors. I don’t even think that modern day laser printers can defeat Epson about photo printing. May be there are better options - but my past experiences have given me such satisfaction that I can’t think of anything else - which might be called loyalty that Epson has earned from me. Of- course I am only talking here about photo printing! There might be many better options than Epson in other printing jobs.
I want readers to suggest their own experiences through comments.
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