This means that you can load up the tray with plain printer paper without removing your blank cards from the top loader -no juggling, and no disruption to your “normal printing.” It also has a 150-sheet, cassette-loading paper drawer (similar to those on the old LaserWriters). Most importantly for our purposes, it takes a big pile of regular old, drug-store index cards and prints whatever you want onto them at a clip of about 10 seconds per card.
This sexy little number looks like a toaster oven from 2001 and has an awful lot of cool features given its sub-$100 price tag. Buy.com (Best deal: $59.95 after rebate).Buy (your purchase supports 43 Folders) :.Street Price: about $80 (after current rebate).Basics: Ink jet 22 ppm b/w 15 ppm color 2 paper sources automatic duplex.The Winner: Canon Pixma iP3000 Photo Printer (including a couple phone calls to sales support and some assorted friends).īut, in the end, I decided to put my real-life money where my mouth theoretically should be: I popped in to CompUSA on Saturday morning and bought the recommended model that looked best to me-the Canon Pixma iP3000-and then spent the rest of the weekend testing it out. First, I took everyone’s suggestions (and warnings), compiled a tally count, and then did a bit of extra research on CNET, Epinions, etc. Duh, right?Īnyhow, to put this together, I’ve adopted a blended approach. This was borne out by the very wide range of suggestions you all submitted-over 30 different models by most all the major companies were mentioned (although only 4 got mentioned more than once)-as well as the plain fact it’s virtually impossible to give meaningful advice on a product you’ve never used. So I did what I always do: I asked for help.Įven as I started asking for reader advice on inexpensive printers that handle standard index cards well, I had a feeling this was going to be a tough post to put together. I’ve shared this interest since, frankly, I’ve been buffaloed as well-crippled by the crappiness of my old Epson and unsure what to try next. With this growth and interest have come a lot of requests from readers for the best, cheapest, and most Mac-friendly printer for printing directly to ordinary index cards. This trick works because your printer uses cartridges that do not have chips in them.The Hipster PDA has been extended and improved beyond my wildest dreams thanks to things like GTDTiddlyWiki, Douglas Johnston’s D IY Planner, and John Norris’s very creative templates. In fact, you should get a cartridge as soon as possible whether it works or not. But if it doesn't print like it should, you should cancel the print and get a cartridge for your printer. If the printout looks good, you're in luck. The next time you print, it will do a head cleaining which will waste some ink and then attempt to print. The printer will think you have a low (instead of an empty) cartridge in it. Take the wide black cartridge out of you printer, close the lid, open the lid and put it back in your printer. Now here's a little secret that you can use in an emergency that might work so that you can print your form. You will not the Yellow, Cyan and Magenta. I would suggest that you buy three color BCI-5 cartridges and put them in your printer. There is a good chance that the nozzles will clog. If you have no color cartridges in your printer and your black cartridge is apparently out of ink, does this mean that you have no ink at all in your printer? It's not a good idea to allow your printer to be out of ink. Although there is a BCI-5Bk, it is narrow and will not go into your iP3000. The BCI-5 cartridges are physically the same as the BCI-6 cartridges so you could use those in place of your color cartridges which you say you are not using (very risky). The iP3000 uses a wide pigment black ink cartridge called the BCI-3eBk and three narrow BCI-6 dye ink color cartridges.
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