MHR wrote:
(I'd still stick with Brother or HP. If the Canon ink cartridges are the newer, electronically aware/controlled kind, I'll be surprised if you don't want to switch soon enough anyway.)
I like the carts on my Canon i9900 photo printer... they are simple clear plastic carts, with a prism molded into the bottom of the ink compartment... the printer shines a laser up into the cart, and can tell exactly when the ink is low and when its gone. so simple its silly. These are Canon BCI-6x (where x varies with the color)
catch-22, afaik, its impossible to get this printer working with Linux. It prints gorgeous 13x19" edge to edge photos, uses 8 ink colors (black, cyan, magenta, yellow, photo-cyan, photo-magenta, red, and green). Its quite fast for an inkjet, too, considering how excellent the quality is. Hasn't clogged ever in 3-4 years of moderately heavy but intermittent use. Had to clean the bottom of the inkjet plate once when ink buildup started to leave little streaks on the bottom 1/4" of the pages of photopaper.
HP is the one who likes to chip their cartridges, that and Epson.