Canon to Epson?

[The Hat]

@Paul Verizzo you got me completely on that this.
What specifically can you see wrong with @mrelmos grammar that I can’t..

 

[Paul Verizzo]

@Paul Verizzo you got me completely on that this.
What specifically can you see wrong with @mrelmos grammar that I can’t..

I admit I am a Grammar Gestapo. It comes with decades of trying to write better and better prose; from accurate eBay listings to essays to short novels. Without particulars, if a written communication makes my head hurt, something's wrong. In this particular case (I went back and looked), lack of capitalization, ending a question with a period, lack of commas where needed. Maybe more than I don't recall.

I don't want to make this a non-printer, grammar (Notice the comma!) issue. It comes back to quality communications to help each other. Most of the non-native English posters seem to apologize for their English, often quite unnecessarily!

 

[The Hat]

To me it sure looks like the kettle calling the pot black and people in glasshouses shouldn’t throw stones, but then I happen to be also dyslexic, what would I know..

P.S. I always end my posts with two full stops, what you yanks like to call period.

 

[Roy Sletcher]

I admit I am a Grammar Gestapo. It comes with decades of trying to write better and better prose; from accurate eBay listings to essays to short novels. Without particulars, if a written communication makes my head hurt, something's wrong. In this particular case (I went back and looked), lack of capitalization, ending a question with a period, lack of commas where needed. Maybe more than I don't recall.

I don't want to make this a non-printer, grammar (Notice the comma!) issue. It comes back to quality communications to help each other. Most of the non-native English posters seem to apologize for their English, often quite unnecessarily!

Internet forums are a graveyard for any language purist. The international nature and quick response culture, for the most part, breeds a superficial level of syntax and debate.

I appreciate skilful use of the English language, especially where it is used like a scalpel rather than a blunt instrument to make valid points in debate. However, an internet forum is not the time or place for that type of elegance. Blunt and prosaic is the order of the day on the internet forums.

I applaud the participants who go to great lengths to make their points when English is not their first, or maybe even second language. For the most part they do an excellent job.

 

[Ink stained Fingers]

yes, you can use Canon inks in an Epson unit, even in those which otherwise would use the Durabrite pigment ink. Colors may be off, but that's something you could fix with an ICC color profile. But you can't do it the other way around, Epson inks will not print with bubble printheads. It may work for you to use up Canon inks this way, but otherwise there is no benefit of them. Lots of people are not aware, that a Canon printhead is a consumable item, with a limited lifetime which is specified in the service manuals in terms of text pages, color pages 10x15 and graphics A4 pages. And once a Canon printhead is reaching the end of his service life you cannot clean away the typical problems, missing nozzles, B200 errors etc. When you do refill you are more flexible with Epson printers, you can use both dye and pigment inks if you want to, that's not easily possible with Canon printers. Canon printers do a pretty good quality print job, and if you include the replacement of the printhead once in a while - before it smokes away - into your budget you can just continue with Canon printers. But otherwise you are probably better off with Epson printers.

 

[jtoolman]

With all my respect!
Actually Paul, I find your reply more difficult to comprehend than mrelmo.
Please explain.

 

[jtoolman]

I admit I am a Grammar Gestapo. It comes with decades of trying to write better and better prose; from accurate eBay listings to essays to short novels. Without particulars, if a written communication makes my head hurt, something's wrong. In this particular case (I went back and looked), lack of capitalization, ending a question with a period, lack of commas where needed. Maybe more than I don't recall.

I don't want to make this a non-printer, grammar (Notice the comma!) issue. It comes back to quality communications to help each other. Most of the non-native English posters seem to apologize for their English, often quite unnecessarily!

Got you!
But I hate to tell you that this is the way people are and likely to continue to communicate in the internet!
The correctly spoken language is also becoming something of the past.
The misuse of Their when one means They're, A Apple when it should be An Apple! The use of double and even triple negatives.... well you get my drift.
Oh, I am originally from Galicia Spain and as a child over 60 years ago, I came to the USA still speaking the very weird Galician form of Spanish, and to this day, I am still trying to make heads and tails of the English language as it is meant to be spoken and NOT, as it is currently being spoken by many of our residents.
The written language specially as it is being used in social media is indeed appalling!

But I will let that end here as it has nothing to do with printing and printers!

Joe

 

[Paul Verizzo]

Internet forums are a graveyard for any language purist. The international nature and quick response culture, for the most part, breeds a superficial level of syntax and debate.

I appreciate skilful use of the English language, especially where it is used like a scalpel rather than a blunt instrument to make valid points in debate. However, an internet forum is not the time or place for that type of elegance. Blunt and prosaic is the order of the day on the internet forums.

I applaud the participants who go to great lengths to make their points when English is not their first, or maybe even second language. For the most part they do an excellent job.

As (almost) always, I agree with you and your additional points. And well phrased!

 

[Paul Verizzo]

Got you!
But I hate to tell you that this is the way people are and likely to continue to communicate in the internet!
The correctly spoken language is also becoming something of the past.
The misuse of Their when one means They're, A Apple when it should be An Apple! The use of double and even triple negatives.... well you get my drift.
Oh, I am originally from Galicia Spain and as a child over 60 years ago, I came to the USA still speaking the very weird Galician form of Spanish, and to this day, I am still trying to make heads and tails of the English language as it is meant to be spoken and NOT, as it is currently being spoken by many of our residents.
The written language specially as it is being used in social media is indeed appalling!

But I will let that end here as it has nothing to do with printing and printers!

Joe

Just because the Idiocracy has arrived, doesn't mean I need to participate. (Look for the trailers on Youtube for the movie of the same name. Average intelligence 20th century man is forgotten in an experiment, then is re-awakened 500 years later. He is now the smartest man on the planet.)

Let me make clear that in no way am I trying to act superior or denigrate the OP, even if there is appearance of that. My purpose in commenting goes back to communication. We had a discussion recently about using good grammar on eBay to judge the seller's ability to perform well. Just part of that riff.

Now, regular broadcasting will resume........

 

[pharmacist]

Well I am going dutch...my native language, so my English is Dunglish .