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    Brian
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    Treated myself to a new printer the other day.

    Bought myself an Epson Stylus Photo R300 inkjet for £129.99
    from Argos.

    It has memory card slots so you can insert a memory card
    from a digital camera (Compact Flash, Secure Digital, Memory
    Stick Pro, xD & Smartmedia).

    The printer has a little LCD (not a colour LCD) screen where
    you can tell it how to print, what images from the memory
    card to print, layout, images per page, then press print.

    Printing off a couple of images taken using my Olympus C4000
    straight from the memory card onto 6x4 epson photo glossy
    gives amazing results - I'm hard pushed to see any dithering
    in the print. "Grayscale" prints are nothing to write home
    about though.

    Its a 6 colour printer, with 6 seperate ink cartridges,
    (Black, Cyan, Light Cyan, Red, Light Magenta and Yellow) -
    the print heads are in the printer, not on the cartridge.

    Printing a map from Multimap gives very very good results
    compared to my old HP 610C.

    Not sure if I'll be able to scan a printout in and still
    keep detail to show you the quality of the print.

    Still, I'm pleased with the printer!

    --
    Brian

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  2. Fran
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    [email hidden] said...

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    Still, I'm pleased with the printer!


    I would never have guessed! Not a bad price, either. Argos
    is certainly winning its stripes here, isn't it :-)
    --
    Fran If you need my email address please ask.

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  3. Toby Jug
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    "Brian" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Treated myself to a new printer the other day.

    Bought myself an Epson Stylus Photo R300 inkjet for
    £129.99 from Argos.

    www.dabs.com

    £116.32 inc VAT (£99.00 ex VAT)

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  4. John Jordan
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    Plus delivery though at DABS.

    "toby jug" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:LcWgc.230$cU3.206@newsfe3-
    win.server.ntli.net...

    Quoted message said:

    "Brian" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    Treated myself to a new printer the other day.

    Bought myself an Epson Stylus Photo R300 inkjet for
    £129.99 from Argos.

    www.dabs.com

    £116.32 inc VAT (£99.00 ex VAT)

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  5. Joe Bloggs
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    "John Jordan" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Plus delivery though at DABS.

    "toby jug" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:LcWgc.230$cU3.206@newsfe3-
    win.server.ntli.net...

    Quoted message said:

    "Brian" <[email hidden]> wrote in
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    "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    Treated myself to a new printer the other day.

    Bought myself an Epson Stylus Photo R300 inkjet for
    £129.99 from


    Argos.

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:


    www.dabs.com

    £116.32 inc VAT (£99.00 ex VAT)


    That's if they really have it at all. Couple of times I've
    ordered stuff that's 'in stock' only to be told they're
    expecting some 'next week'.....

    Dave....

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  6. zeus
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    www.dabs.com


    [censored] after sales service, difficult to communicate with if
    something is wrong (or not delivered in my case)

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  7. Anonymous
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    In article <[email hidden]>,
    [email hidden] writes

    Quoted message said:


    Quoted message said:

    www.dabs.com


    [censored] after sales service, difficult to communicate with if
    something is wrong (or not delivered in my case)

    I quite agree. I used to use them a lot and recommend them.
    However my experience started to go wrong just over a year
    ago and I now will not use them at all.

    --

    dscs.demon.co.ukdscs.demon.co.uk

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  8. Gordon
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    Brian <[email hidden]> wrote

    Quoted message said:

    Treated myself to a new printer the other day.

    Bought myself an Epson Stylus Photo R300 inkjet for £129.99
    from Argos.


    [....]

    Quoted message said:


    Its a 6 colour printer, with 6 seperate ink cartridges,
    (Black, Cyan, Light Cyan, Red, Light Magenta and Yellow) -
    the print heads are in the printer, not on the cartridge.


    Oooo-errrr!

    I hope it isn't as thirsty as my Epsom C70+. :-(

    When your ink runs out you may find that it's cheaper to buy
    a new printer than replace the full set of cartridges,
    although the originals fitted may have less ink that the
    replacements.
    --
    Gordon

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  9. Brian
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    Gordon <[email hidden]> wrote in
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    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:


    Oooo-errrr!

    I hope it isn't as thirsty as my Epsom C70+. :-(

    When your ink runs out you may find that it's cheaper to
    buy a new printer than replace the full set of cartridges,
    although the originals fitted may have less ink that the
    replacements.

    Official Epson cartridges are £10 each - however I have seen
    6 packs of compatible cartridges for £32

    inkjetcartridgeshop.co.ukepson inkjet cart
    ridges.htm

    --
    Brian

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  10. Phil Cook
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    Quoted message said:

    In article <[email hidden]>,
    [email hidden] writes

    Quoted message said:


    Quoted message said:

    www.dabs.com


    [censored] after sales service, difficult to communicate with if
    something is wrong (or not delivered in my case)

    I quite agree. I used to use them a lot and recommend them.
    However my experience started to go wrong just over a year
    ago and I now will not use them at all.

    I think they went to a fully automated warehouse about then.
    I used to be able to get stuff delivered on a certain day by
    ordering "in stock" items the day before but that has failed
    the last several times my brother and I have tried it. The
    warehouse door shop went at the same time as the automated
    picking system could take hours to retrieve an item.
    --
    Phil Cook looking north over the park to the
    "Westminster Gasworks"

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  11. Gordon
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    Brian <[email hidden]> wrote

    Quoted message said:

    Gordon <[email hidden]> wrote in
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    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:


    Oooo-errrr!

    I hope it isn't as thirsty as my Epsom C70+. :-(

    When your ink runs out you may find that it's cheaper to
    buy a new printer than replace the full set of
    cartridges, although the originals fitted may have less
    ink that the replacements.

    Official Epson cartridges are £10 each - however I have
    seen 6 packs of compatible cartridges for £32

    inkjetcartridgeshop.co.ukepson inkjet cartr
    idges.htm


    I bought a couple of 'own brand' cartridges from Staples at
    half the price, but the black one has let me down from time
    to time with 'gaps' in the printing and the occasional
    smear. That didn't happen with the Epsom cartridges.
    --
    Gordon

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