An open letter to Canon

[madbodger]

I had a need for a new, different printer. Ink jet printers produce beautiful images, but they're delicate and run and smear when wet. Worse, if I only use the printer occasionally, the nozzles clog and I use a lot of expensive ink getting them working again. If I want to print gold or silver foil, I use my ancient Alps MD-5000,which isn't

Comments

[keith_m043]

Gonna return it then?

[randomdreams]

It's possible they don't write the drivers, they outsource it, and that's the sticking point.

But in any case, that's crappy behavior.

I sure like my olympus digital cameras.

[sunspiral]

I've been very happy with Epson high end printers, even if they don't do metallic foils. HP products are pretty much banned from my house for poor quality and worse support. I bought a Canon printer once and it was basically junk. I take it as an article of faith that there's considerable separation between their printer division and their camera division.