Re: Sell your 1200 and buy a 760!

[Pam Niedermayer <pam_pine@cape.com>]

Consumer Reports writes for a lowest common denominator
consumer. Mind you, they're really good; and if I'm looking
for house paint, where I'm a lowest common denominator, I
pay attention. However, when it comes to computers, cameras,
stereo equipment, musical instruments, I ignore them wholeheartedly.

Reminds me of National Geographic, great pictures; but if
you know anything at all about an article's topic, you know
more than they're going to tell you.

Pam

sbaker wrote:
> 
> The March issue of Consumer Reports has a review of inkjet printers.  Epson
> inkjet printers were not even mentioned in the text of the main article,
> except for stating that, oddly, the cheaper Epson printers (the SC 760 was
> the cheapest Epson they listed) produced better photos than the pricey Epson
> 1200.
> 
> Indeed, on the ratings chart for photo output, the Epson SC 760 was rated as
> "Excellent," and the 1200 was rated two steps lower as only "Good."  HP's
> took the top 4 highest overall ratings.
> 
> I like CR's auto reviews, but they have always been strangely off-base
> concerning computers and peripherals.
> 
> O.T. RANT:
> 
> I remember back in the day, when I had an Epson QX-10 8-bit computer (anyone
> remember Valdocs?)  I used it to run Wordstar and Dbase II (both CPM
> programs).  When CR did a review of the Epson QX-10,  they said they would
> not recommend buying it because it did not run CPM programs!
> 
> The first and last QX-10 ever produced came from the factory with a version
> of the CPM operating system, and a big, fat, CPM manual.  I have never
> trusted CR's computer "testing" since then, and now it appears that their
> criteria for testing photo-quality inkjet printers is flawed, to say the
> least.
> 
> Steve
> 
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