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b1lk1 said:
Absolutely. It is never more cost effective to buy a printer, just more convenient.
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Don't know about Costco, but the local Walmart is double plus ungood at photo printing. Nothing more annoying than e-mailing off pictures, driving a half hour to get them and then looking at the pictures and seeing that they cut off someones head, screwed up the colors and somehow managed to twist the image. They seem to excel at incompetence.
 
Either bad cartridges, or dead printer. Epson makes great products. I have both a WP-4530 daily printer and a R1900 for photo printing with no issues. Give Epson a second chance, since 4 prints per set of cartridges is impossible.
fortkentdad said:
I bought a Epson Artisan 837 printer at Staples on Thursday. They did price match Bestbuy.ca and I paid $179.00 ($100 off). I thought I had a great deal. The manager who was serving me told me not to expect too much from the OEM ink cartridges that come with the printer and sold me on $85 worth of regular cartridges (it takes six). I didn't get a chance to get it hooked up onto Saturday night. Hook up was pretty painless, wireless connected easily and the CD loaded the drivers and software without a hitch on both my Win7 and Win8 side of my dual boot PC.

Then I printed a few test pages, so far so good. Then a few photos, as in FOUR 4x6 photo's and I got a low ink warning. Now this was not the OEM "low volume" cartridges but the $85 worth of cartridges I had paid for.

I called Staples the next day. Spoke to the same manager. I explained what happened and he proceeded to say they don't put much ink in the cartridges in the box, I'd told him I used the $85 he sold me. He still went on about low volume cartridges. When I finally got him to realize I was not using those (and even if I was they should do much more than FOUR pictures). Then he launched into a comparison to a car, we never get the mileage advertised, same for printers he says. Come on, if I bought a car and drove four miles on a whole tank of gas you'd be sure that I'd be back at the dealers saying something terrible was wrong. But he still didn't budge. The fact it printed four pictures nicely means the printer was working properly and ink use varies by the resolution I use. Even at absolute top end resolution four 4x6 prints cannot use five cartridges (only the colours were used the black one still read 100% full). But no he would not budge.

I fumed. I emailed Epson. Then my dear wife said that Staples has a no quibble return. So I packed it up and went there with my rant ready. I was absolutely "not satisfied" and if the manager was right and this model only gets four prints per five colour cartridges and that's just how it is, then I am not satisfied with that machine at all. I suspect I got bad cartridges but who knows. ANYway, I had a sweet sales clerk who didn't even ask why I was returning it. She was going to refund the full $279 but I'm too honest and told her I'd only paid $179 and pointed to the price match discount on the receipts. I don't think she liked me correcting her but she adjusted the refund and I took my $179 and went home.

I'm back in the market for a good photo printer. I did look at some better ones, but they take like 10 cartridges @ $22 each, $220 to refill the ink, ouch. All of a sudden $85 does not look so bad. But I still have my trusty old Cannon MP140 and the pictures are good enough, for now.

Ahhhh,

now I feel better, ...

nothing like a therapeutic rant.
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Perineum said:
The best photo printer is walmart or costco
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b1lk1 said:
Absolutely. It is never more cost effective to buy a printer, just more convenient.
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I disagree; as Kerry mentioned, they batch process the pictures. If you don't care about color reproduction and proper print size, then by all means.

Otherwise, your local photo print place (I have a Fuji shop close by) or a good photo printer are much better options.
 
I hate the way newer vehical can have one thing wrong that looks like it is something totally different.
My Parents ( who are in there 70s) have a 2007 pontiac torrent about two months ago I had to go to a place where the dam thing won't turn over ( shoppers drugmart parking lot. ) now if this was before computer bull I would have figured it out immediately as either starter solenoid or battery becasue it just clicked. I kept on clicking the starter and the torrent finally turned over and fired up.
well the otherday my parents went out to drive to Chilliwack ,on the freeway the torrent started to spit and sputter making my parents panic , but they where able to just get home. I went out and with the thing still running jumped into the drivers seat put the thing in reverse with a huge jerk which was the trany acting up I backed the thing up put it in drive the trany Slides into drives and starts to slip the revs where at 2000 but the torrent was barely moving. I turned the thing off then tried to start it up again and guess what...nothing.
After repeatingly turning the key well over 100 times the torrent fired up and all seems fine. I then told my parents to just take the thing into the dealership and get them to check it out. I know what theya re going to say but I am hoping for a miricle and they are able to find the problem and fix it because I really don't like the Idea of my parents ,who love to go for long drives in the Interior of BC to get stuck on some side road in the Bush.
My Dad is so stressed out and I try to tell him to not worry about things that he has no control over.
 
My bank sent me a letter that I`m behind with my payments for my loans. I`m still a full time student. You would think that by now government departments learn how to share information between them.
 
omgwtf said:
My bank sent me a letter that I`m behind with my payments for my loans. I`m still a full time student. You would think that by now government departments learn how to share information between them.
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I assume you mean your student loans (or LOC from your bank) that you don't have to start paying off until a certain time after you've graduated?
 
Massive fire by my work (Maybe a block), traffic is gone to hell and trucks / helicopters are a racing. Wonder when the news on the internet is gonna catch up to it.

-ST
 
Hinge on my laptop(ul50vt) exploded.... guess it serves me right for using a badly fitting sleeve that didnt protect the corners and a bag with no padding in it. Not sure if it's even worth taking to asus for an out of warranty repair and pay out the nose and get it fixed.
 
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