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| Thread ID: 95442 | 2008-12-06 19:58:00 | Consumer Latest Best Printer Test. | Trev (427) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 726280 | 2008-12-06 19:58:00 | Best printer Canon Pixma iP4500 $230 Best Budget Printer Canon Pixma iP3500 $129. You can buy The Consumer Mag. in book shops. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 726281 | 2008-12-06 20:08:00 | I have got one of the Canon iP4500's and it is great. I have had it for a year and it is very fast and reliable. Has never jammed once. I only use it for colour printing as I have a laser printer. The consumables are good - separate tanks (but I buy them from Cartridge World - more ink in them and very cheap) |
Digby (677) | ||
| 726282 | 2008-12-06 20:49:00 | Best in what? My criteria is maximum number of pages per cartridge (minimum 850, up to 1400) and availability of drivers. Actual manufacturer drivers. Try finding a Vista 64bit driver for most of them. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 726283 | 2008-12-06 21:08:00 | I thought printers would have caught up by now. | Cicero (40) | ||
| 726284 | 2008-12-06 21:12:00 | Both Canon? No thanks, I'll stick with HP. And to me, a budget printer is not $130. My HP was about $50 after cashback and it's the best printer I've ever owned. And yes I have had a LOT of printers. Just avoid Brother. |
--Wolf-- (128) | ||
| 726285 | 2008-12-06 21:47:00 | I have got one of the Canon iP4500's and it is great. I have had it for a year and it is very fast and reliable. Has never jammed once. I only use it for colour printing as I have a laser printer. The consumables are good - separate tanks (but I buy them from Cartridge World - more ink in them and very cheap) I picked up my iP4500 from a shop here in hams for $40 as it was a repo, have to admit it does have some kick assness about it. Very happy chappy. |
rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
| 726286 | 2008-12-06 22:12:00 | Have had my IP3000 for over 3 years now and it's great no idea what I paid for it now, does all the same as the others CD's 2 paper trays, pict bridge only thing the newer models have over this one is wireless capability built in | gary67 (56) | ||
| 726287 | 2008-12-06 22:33:00 | I suspect that with $50 printers, you will indeed get through a lot of them. ;) I have an Epson 680 about 6 years old that prints extremely good photographs, but costs an arm and a leg in ink, a Canon Multifunction that cost me nothing but a little time to fix which is quite frugal on consumables, and a Lexmark laser printer that is great for cheap printing of long runs in colour while also keeping the place warm in winter. The Canon gets the most frequent use since it is so efficient at being smaller on the desk than a seperate printer and scanner. My grouches? The Epson's ink monitoring software is a total pain. The Lexmark is big, takes forever to warm up and makes a great deal of noise. The Canon's control panel and display mean you have to look down on it to read it which rules out putting the thing on a shelf above the monitor where I would like to stow it. All are reliable, but they are all annoyingly slow to the first print from switch on. (Time to haul out the dot-matrix ? ;) ) |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 726288 | 2008-12-07 10:18:00 | Both Canon? No thanks, I'll stick with HP. And to me, a budget printer is not $130. My HP was about $50 after cashback and it's the best printer I've ever owned. And yes I have had a LOT of printers. Just avoid Brother. Ditto and Ditto! |
beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 726289 | 2008-12-07 17:24:00 | My HP MFC was around $150 offline (I now buy as much as I can online now). Can't say I have any niggles about it. So far has done what has been required of it, and does it well :) | Myth (110) | ||
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