Poor quality short life of usage
Written: Jan 06 '01
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Pros: great images
Cons: Poor quality of construction and support (Japan only)
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| lboeckl's Full Review: Alps MD-5000P Printer |
I own an Alps 5000 printer with the dye sub upgrade. I have used it around 14 months now. I printed approx 100 photos on its vPhoto paper and one the high quality photo paper. The images were unbelieveably wonderful. Best I have ever saw anywhere digitally. However I was going to print out more high quality photo paper images when I started to get anti-curl motor errors. I called support and they asked me to ship it back to Japan along with a cost of $250 for the replacement of the anti-curl motor. At $300 for the fix the printer is not worth it to me so I am shopping for a replacement as I was a very light user of the printer and feel it's a case of throwing good money after bad so to speak. I have always spent around $500 for printers because they usually work long after you want them anymore due to the improvements that constantly occur with PC printers. However this is the first printer that this was not true with in my 15 years of PC printers usage. The Canon BJC610 that preceded my daughter still uses today without any repairs ever having been needed.
I also found on the Internet several other people who listed the anti-curl motor as a problem for them so I believe we are really talking about a problem that is design based (too cheaply produced, very poor quality). I also read that Alps has withdrawn the product from the US. Having been through a US product withdrawel before (my first PC Atari 520 back in 1986) I don't recomend anyone buy the printer because everything for it will dry up in the next 18 months. So great output poor quality of construction and even worse repair support.
Recommended:
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Amount Paid (US$): 500
Operating System: Windows
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