Comment by com2kid
5 days ago
My old HP 500c was incredibly reliable and it didn't have any of the print head cleaning shenanigans that are needed now days.
It was however dog slow.
I am not sure why modern inkjets need print head cleaning whereas old ones did not.
That old device was 300 or even 150 dpi. The newer devices are 1200 dpi-ish. Smaller hole, more clog.
For greeting cards, 300dpi is fine.
For photos, the paper makes a huge difference, 1200 dpi on cheap paper is trash, 600 DPI on high quality photo paper looks good.
In the race for bigger numbers we lost out on reliability so now we have nothing. :/