Printer Reviews

I ordered this printer to go with my new digital camera and found it simple to install and get started. I was able to print a great photo immediately using the sample paper provided. It is terrific quality and rivals 35mm prints from the photo finisher. If you are looking for a reasonably priced photo printer with all the extras this is a good choice. Printing direct from camera cards with out turning on the computer is very handy.

I started off with a Canon i900D but returned it because of the quality of photos. The prints were not real sharp and the color was off.

I originally was going to buy the 7960 but since I do not do a lot of B + W and the larger LCD was not a big issue for me I decided to try out the 7760. I just brought it home and set up was a breeze, basically you just plug it in. I did have a question though and call HP technical help, got threw in a matter of minutes, the tech was nice and helpful. I printed a few prints and am impressed by the quality of the photos. It's a nice looking printer and I like the fact it's a little smaller then the 7960. Still too new to tell for the long hull but so far it's a keeper!

Best photo printer I ever have owned. Easy set-up. Quick printing, great colors, love the little LCD screen that shows the picture as it prints. Reads directly from compact flash card; no computer needed. Ink and paper are expensive, but I'm worth it.

Downside: paper path a little convoluted but no problems. Perfect companion for my Nikon CoolPix 5400 digital camera.

I bought the Brother HL-1850 as my home office Laser Printer... ... [printer is] very easy to setup when the directions are followed. [printer] support parallel and USB connections which were new to me. The 1850 is larger, faster, prints on both sides of the page and has 16 meg of RAM... It also has a fold down tray for envelopes, legal sized paper etc. You can also purchase a network card for the 1850 if desired... [printer] warm up and print quickly... I've been very pleased with [the] printers and find them a good value for the money compared to HP models in a similar price range...

I run a Mac network with the Brother HL-1850 connected via USB to ab iMac that is wirelessly connected to a G3 PB, G3 iBook, and G4 PB 17". HL-1850 works flawlessly over Rendezvous (despite Apple not placing Brother on the "approved" printers list). Its fast, cheap to operate, and in 3 mos and about 8 reams of various standard paper has never failed. Two CAUTIONS:
1) Original printer did not print from Safari (worked w/ all other apps & browsers). Brother determined I had an early model w/ outdated ROM; overnighted a new printer w/ paid return shipping for the old. Ensure any Brother printer has the latest ROM.
2) Had initial problems printing complex .pdf files. A 128 MB RAM card solved it. Most RAM cards run $50. With Google you can get one delivered to your door for $25.
Bottom line. I couldn't be happier and suggest that duplex printing will save you 33% of operating costs (paper). Getting a full toner cartridge (vice a 50% charge) with the original printer is also nice.

As a grad student I tend to print a lot of research papers. I wanted to find a reasonably priced printer that would produce quality duplexed 2 sheets per page output (it saves paper). I decided on the Brother HL-1850 and I have been very happy so far (I have had the printer for about 1 month and run around 1,000 pages through it). For a few dollars I did add 128 MB of memory which increased the print speed dramatically. At first I was disappointed with the fact that symbols didn't print right or papers seemed to print as one big graphic which looked horrible. I found a solution to this problem though. For general printing (pdfs, docs, etc.) I use the BRScript driver, but when I need to print a .ps document I use the post script driver. The quality is great and I am very, very satisified. A great value and it does everything I need. This is my first experience with Brother, but it won't be my last.

I just bought the CP-200 to go with my S50 camera. Setting it up was very easy when it came to the camera and printer working together, haven't yet tried it with my computer. Because I do TRUE Dye Sublimation, I thought this printer was also going to allow me to do transfers, not so. I'm a tad bit disappointed that you have to buy SPECIAL paper for this printer. No where does it tell you this. This will mean that you will always have to carry a lot of extra stuff with you if you want to be able to print while on the road etc. I haven't decided if I'm going to keep this printer or buy the HP ink jet printer. The one good thing is with this printer your pics will last a lot longer then a ink jet.

I bought this printer on an impulse after taking lots of digital pictures with my Canon A80 on a vacation. There is no warning about how pricey this printer can become. It came with 5 postcard size sheets and a cartridge that would print only the 5 pictures. Once they were gone, since you hadn't been warned, it was back to the store for another ink cartridge and paper. You have to buy an ink cartridge and paper pack for the number of prints you. These are available at amazon.com at the cheapest price I've found. It costs about 52 cents a print if you buy the 36 print cartridge packed with 36 sheets of paper.

(Canon also confuses the consumer by selling 4x6 sheets of paper without ink cartridges. These are for use in other printers, not this one. So beware! There is no ink cartridge included, they are just a tetch too large to go in this printer, and they won't work in it--but they are displayed right next to these printers in every store I looked in.)

The aggravation of the paper and ink cartridges aside, the printer makes beautiful prints. My regular HP printer prints very good pictures except in black and other dark color areas. So I use this Canon printer to print those which the other printer doesn't do so well on. I had no problem getting the software installed and this printer working from my computer.

Most of my pictures will be taken with my old Canon Ae1 and printed with Kodak Perfect Touch processing but my digital pictures will be printed on this printer when I need quality prints from them.

so what if you pay a little more for the prints?!! i usually have get togethers on the weekends and for the convenience of sending a photo home with my guests, it sure is worth it!! my guests don't have to wait UNTIL to receive a copy of the photos taken!! for just regular prints, i take in for developing, cd, or connect my canon powershot to the computer and print there. the manual says that an ink cartridge must be replaced with each new pack of paper. so, i plan ahead. people, quit complaining about a simple inconvenience!! we live in america, do you really have anything legitimate to complain about?? but i digress. this little printer is sure handy dandy!! i received both for my bday!! ( we upgraded technologically this year ) VERY COOL!! LOVE IT!! have had no trouble whatsoever!! ENJOY!!!!

I've owned this for over a year and it's been my main printer/copier for a small business. I usually use it in draft mode as it is very fast (maybe 10ppm?) and the quality is good enough most of the time. Regular mode is too slow for my patience, maybe 2-3 ppm.

I've been very pleased. The cartridges are really cheap and it has been completely reliable. It doesn't take up much desk room and it is overall just a "neat" shape. There is a very nice feature where it allows you to see exactly what is going to the printer before sending it (a more "true" preview than what the text processing tools provide.) I always have this on so I don't print extra blank pages at the end, etc. Another neat thing is doing 2-up or 4-up printouts if I want to condense a boring document with large text size.

I'm thinking of buying a second for home. My only hesitation is that it won't run under RedHat Linux. My Linux box won't even boot if it sees the Canon on the USB port.

I bought this printer new last October I was really astounded at the Retail grade DVD covers it produced, I printed about 1,800 covers before a Canon tech told me (by special free toll free number) the printing head was burnt out, but that they would send me a new one to replace old one since I had signed up when I first bought the printer. I am disabled and Canon took my word and is sending the part rather than me having a difficult time of getting someone to to take it to a authorized repair shop. Nice to know that a company as big as Canon still
believes a customers disabled and acts accordingly. I would buy another printer/scanner again because they know and believe that I am disabled and need special help. I would have given it 5 stars but this printer eats a lot of ink with very small ink holding cartridges of 9 ml(B) 1.5ml(color), with 30 ml to equal 1 *ounce*.

I chose Canon for its solid reputation, but this F20 printer-copier-scanner has more going for it than I ever expected. I'm using it with Windows 98. The printing and copying are fast, and the reproduction quality is excellent, even in draft mode.

Scanning of documents or photos includes a preview feature with zoom, allowing you to see what the output will look like. And while being previewed, the photo or document can be cropped, resized, rotated and rescaled. A soft-focused photo image can be sharpened, and I can even adjust the color tones, contrast and brightness. The resulting color output was better than in the photos I scanned.

The OCR software on the installation CD works perfectly. And because the F20 is a flatbed copier, I can scan pages of bound books into the computer, then edit and save them as Word documents, which is saving me a huge amount of time and expense.

The setup sheet made installation extremely easy and problem-free. And the other documentation - the basic manual and the online software guide - are clearly written and well designed, so the machine's various functions are easy to learn. (And there are a LOT of functions.)

Altogether a top shelf piece of equipment!

I bought the HP DeskJet 2000Cse something over two years ago for its speed, supposed economy derived from the fact it has separate cartridges for each color and the print heads do not have to be replaced each time the cartridges are replaced. They don't tell you that when the machine decides that an ink cartridge or print head is bad has gone bad, it will not work at all until that item is replaced. Thus, you must keep a complete stock of cartridges in stock at all times. That's means you must keep an inventory of well in excess ..worth of supplies on hand at all times to assure that you can use the printer. Even when you have new cartridges installed, it may decide that one of them is empty and will not print at all until you replace the cartridge. And how it decides that a printhead is bad is a mystery. It certainly has nothing to do with degraded print quality.

Further, they have never developed a full-featured driver for Windows 2000. I have made numerous requests as to when it will be ready and I can only get answers like "It's not ready yet, but I think they are working on it."

This printer is fast - color or b/w. The text and photo output is just incredibly good. You pay for the ink you use - and not a drop more. Best part is this: buy the HP support option for $80 a year (that's about a quarter a day - for peace of mind) and if anything at all goes wrong, there's a replacement *on your doorstep* the following morning with prepaid UPS labels to pack off the one that's not working. I've owned mine for 3 years - I bought the printer when it first came out and I paid $799 for it. I also had the printhead problem mentioned by another reviewer. But I keep track of the number of copies we print, and after documenting that to HP, they graciously replaced the printheads, as they should have - *by the next morning*. They also provided me with a free upgraded output tray when it became apparent that the original design resulted in "overshoot" when the printer ejected pages. Of course I don't now have the original printer - they've replaced it twice. I hardly noticed.

I upgraded to this printer from my original (or should I say, aboriginal) printer, a LaserJet IIIp that I bought in 1992 for a THOUSAND bucks! You surely get more printer for the buck nowadays, and this one represents the epitome of HP inkjet development. I highly recommend it.

I was fortunate to have a painless installation experience both on a local port and later when I added a JetDirect external print server for my little home-office "workgroup".

In draft mode (where I do most of my printing) the print quality is good and the machine is acceptably fast in either BW or color. Switch over to "best" mode and you have laser-like output sharp enough to lacerate your corneas. Color photos reproduced on this printer using the appropriate photo quality paper are nearly indistinguishable from snapshots of the same size, though don't expect film quality 8 by 10's unless you are using a 3 megapixel camera.

HP's JetAdmin and WebJetAdmin software utilities, available on hp's printers and imaging web pages, are really nice management tools if you network your printer either via printer sharing or using an external print server (I use the economical JetDirect 170X whose 10mB speed, though not top of the line, is more than adequate for the home office user). I recommend those as well.

I have a different view of the separate-color-cartridge setup than another reviewer here who intensely disliked his HP printer experience. I think it makes sense. The cartridges are high capacity; nevertheless I have already had to replace my black cartridge, not surprising given heavy office usage. I did not get to dead empty so I can't say whether the printer would have refused to do anything else without the replacement. I have had the printer for nearly a year and have not had to replace any of the color cartridges. I like the idea that one replaces only what one uses; in my case I would have tossed an all-color cartridge with the colored inks not even half-used, a waste which surely I am paying for somewhere down the line.

Bottom line: great printer, great value. I have owned many HP products and they have never failed to live up to my expectations. I have sought service from HP and that, too, has been more than satisfactory. I don't expect tech support people to get it right first time every time, but I do expect them to keep plugging away at it, and that service level is what I have received from HP.

If you have a Mac G4, if your OS X version is 3.3.4, HP would have you believe that the printer will work out of the box, with later versions of OS X. After some 4 hours of trying to work this out on a G4 PowerBook, here are the results of trying to use the CD provided "with the printer".
1. It set up fine and showed the printer in the OSX printers window.
2. It tested itself fine in the Test and WOW! mode, printing its specimen pictures using the Powerbook
3. Trying to print a picture from Photoshop CS, caused the Adobe program to ABORT.
4, Trying to print a picture from Preview, caused the Apple program to ABORT.
5. Trying to print a picture from iPhoto caused the Apple program to ABORT.

I returned the printer the next day to Circuit City, even though it cost me a 15% restocking fee. They were selling old stock, with out-dated drivers.
I then went to Cosco, and bought the (High-End) $299 HP Printsmart 7960 Printer on sale for $179. It has the latest CD with the correct driver. This printer works as it should.
In talking with the HP Support person, I found a day later, that I could have downloaded the new driver from their site, but the store people had no clue that this would be a problem for Macintosh. They speak PC, not Mac.
And with the way it uses ink, I estimate that I will equal the price of the printer in 4 sets of ink cartridges, in about a month. They should sell the printers for free, and make their money on the ink cartridges.

I'm a stickler for research. I extensively researched six of the top photo printers on the market. I eventually narrowed my search to the HP 7660 based on these attributes:

A- Picture Quality- It can't be beat! I went to the trouble of printing three pictures from the HP 7660 and compared them to the same prints I received from a well know photo lab from Bentonville, Arkansas (started by a guy named Sam). The clarity and realism are identical; perfect pictures.

B- Versatility- I wanted a photo printer that would serve as a document printer as well. It does both. And unlike the SONY X5 that doesn't print documents nor any other photo size other that a 4X6, this printer does it all. And for those that whine about having to interchange ink cartridges to print photos versus documents; so what! It takes (not an exaggeration) less than 5 seconds. HP even gives you secure cradle to rest the dormant ink cartridge in until it's ready to be used.

C- Price-- Compared to other photo printers, the price is exceptional. It will pay for itself in memories, gifts, entertainment, and convenience in no time. $150.00 is VERY reasonable.

I wanted professional picture results. I wanted to print documents. I wanted a fair price. The HP 7660 gave me everything I wanted. I am OVERLY satisfied. No hang-up on installation. No problems whatsoever. I'm very satisfied with my purchase.

If you are looking for an affordable photoprinter, not a fast text printer, this is the one.

I have a 2 year old printer at home printing digital photos at 2400x1200 dpi. I printed the same photo on both my old printer and the hp 7660 at max resolution and wow the colors in the hp printer are more vivid and accurate. The photo felt more life like, similar to film prints.

The draw backs are you can not refill the ink cartridges, and you have to switch between black and the photo cartridges. It is slow printing text pages compared to a dual roll printer like a deskjet.

In summary if you want a great photo printer at a reasonable price this one is it, if you want to print say 24 page documents all the time buy another printer. This was designed to be a photo printer, not a document printer.

My first printer was an epsom, which when i bought it in 1998 i was very impressed. when it went to the great printshop in the sky i was looking for something cheap and cheerful to replace it as my expereince showed that all printers were expensive... not the case.
after reading a few favourable reviews i opted for the canon 350 which cost me £69 (+ £8 for a usb lead) it took me a matter of minutes to install and the results were not just great but wow. to buy a colour and black ink will cost me about £18 as opposed to the £40 or so for the epsom. only down side is that it's a little noisey compared to the epsom.

to summarise
* very cheap printer
*Excellent qaulity for any price but for £69 its as steal!
* looks good
* cheap ink
*cheap printer
* well known name
* a little noisey ( prepared to put up with it!)
*did i mention that it is cheap!

This is my second canon, my first was an i320. I only changed because I gave the i320 to my parents and I bought the i350 because it prints faster.
The set up was a breeze. I print a lot of articles from online webpages and the quality is great. I do not use it for pictures though so I cannot talk about that aspect.
What is great is that the ink lasts a while and you can get cheap refills when you need it, I usually get a generic at a local office supplies store or online whichever has the best deal going.
And finally buying it at an auction makes it an even sweeter deal since you only pay a fraction of the retail price and most come new. You do need to buy a seperate USB printer cable. You can also get it at an online auction for cheap.
Yes it is a bit noisy, it has a "pre and post printing noise", but that does not bother me since it does a good Job and saves me money.

I bought this printer based on the PC World review, the reviews here, the price, and the small footprint. The last two were important to me. I can't speak to durability after using it for a week, but it was 40 bucks - if a print head really dies, I can replace it and still will have paid less than the price of the HP I would've purchased otherwise.

Compared with my old HP inkjet, this printer is just as easy to set up, the quality of the output is just as good, the noise when preparing to print is no greater, and the speed is a huge improvement. The same might be true of a new HP of course, but I'm amazed at how quickly text prints in draft mode. It fits nicely in the small space I have available, where the output tray can be hidden away when I'm not printing, allowing me to fully open a door next to my desk. If I wanted, I could fit this nicely on the computer tower also, not the case for the HP I would have chosen otherwise.

My only difficulty was a moment of confusion installing the printer. After installing the print driver (no problem), the installer for optional printer software said to uninstall any previous versions. I had software installed to import images from my Canon digital camera, and it wasn't clear whether that needed to be removed and replaced based on the onscreen messages. Since I simply wanted to use this printer to print text, didn't need the optional software, and didn't really feel like spending time with tech support, I simply skipped the optional software. If you have other Canon hardware and don't want to skip this step, you may have to do a little research first.

Buyer beware! This product (ML-1210D3) was shipped with an obviously used packaging -- with the UPS tracking number for the original purchaser still in the box! This is a scam sale!!!

Don't buy this item! No wonder, Amazon is selling it for much less than the normal price of a NEW item.

Very disappointed, ramida

3500 pages with this cartridge and closer to 4500 with toner save on. Although it isn't in the description, this cartiridge is the replacement for the newer Samsung model ML-1430 laser printer. And Amazon.com has the best price on the web for this product. I have tried and failed to find it for less.

Lexmark must have sold this printer to Samsung. I noticed a Samsung ML-1430 at Best Buy and it looked exactly like my *Lexmark E210 (*no longer available from Lexmark), so I thought I would take a chance to see if the Samsung toner cartridge would work, I ordered one here. This Samsung Toner Cartridge is far superior to Lexmarks version, I noticed big improvements in both text and graphics immediatly, needless to say I am pleased and will be reordering this item. BTW: The Lexmark version of this toner is selling for about $81.00 at Office Depot.

I have been an avid Epson user up until now. I'm very noise sensitive because I work at night and don't want to wake up the family while printing out documents. Epson is very loud so I decided to try this HP 6122. I've read that it prints very quietly, and I have to agree. HOWEVER, is everyone ignoring the fact that it makes a dreadful clunking noise BEFORE and AFTER it prints? It sounds as if it's falling off the table!

One other thing - after you press print, there is a (longer than I'm used to) delay before it actually prints. This can be annoying if you need to print a bunch of different documents in a hurry.

I do think the picture quality is right up there with the Epson Photo printers. If only HP would make their inks last as long as Epson! Overall, nice printer except for the clunking.

I had an HP Laser which drove me batty in terms of getting stuck paper unjammed. After looking at 5550 and 5650, along with Epson, Lexmark and Cannon, I bought the 6122. I rate
the printer 4 1/2**** and am in the process of buying a second.

The construction is sturdier than the 5650 and even 960.
The printer memory is amazing. I will print 40 pages. Nothing will come out at first and then they start flying. The quality,
especially for text letters at Best is like laser. Color
quality: I have a picture of my feline and it is superb.

Bugs that may be related to my CPU include having the printer go off line. This is easily fixed. I just delete the pages
in the que, reboot, reenter the pages being printed and off
we go. I have XP Home. The 6122 is quite at home with it.
Generic cartridges work fine. Have a box in front for when the printer gets going, pages fly out.

The 6122 eliminated slight negatism re: HP old laser jamming.
While not as easy to find in stores or on sale much, the
6122 is worth list price plus. I am mystified over some
of the criticisms. The 6122 is not the most space age
stylish model. It is a Clydesdale. Now I will get a new HP Amdahl or Intel CPU to go along with it. Buy the 6122
and use your worries elsewhere. This is almost as reliable as my Honda Accord.

I have had three HP Deskjet printers for my office and have had great luck with all three. I did not do any comparison shopping for my work printer it was just assigned to me by my company. The HP Deskjet 6122 printer is an outstanding printer. I have had the opportunity to use it with all print modes and several paper types. It prints superb photo quality prints with photo papers. It prints business size envelopes very well. You can feed them in one at a time or place them in the lower tray for multiple envelope printing. It also works well for printing greeting cards. On draft mode it shoots out the pages with lightning speed and even in draft mode the quality of printing is pretty good. It uses high volume ink cartridges and the cartridges are reasonably priced for the amount of printing you get out of them. I like the printer so much that I bought an identical one for home use. The one I bought for home replaced three lousy color inkjet printers that came free in packages with computers a Lexmark, a Cannon and an Epson. This printer is much more expensive than the cheap or free bee printers but it evens out in the end when you look at all the wasted time and money fiddling with dinky low volume cartridges that your lucky if you can get three 8X10 photo prints out of. One day I accidentally printed a photograph on photo paper with my HP 6122 on draft mode and it looked much better than my junky Lexmark does on photo mode.

I gave this printer 3 stars because your results depend on the media you are printing on. If the media you are using is textured in anyway, forget about using this printer. The CD / DVD must be perfectly smooth. With a smooth CD / DVD, the results look pretty good. If you are used to the paper labels you print and stick on, the result can look a little industrial because, unless you change ribbons between printing lines, its all one color. But with smooth media the results are clear and don't easily come off. With a textured surface, the results are really bad. All of my DVDs have a textured surface (TDK is what I use the most). The results are horrible when the media has a textured surface and smooth combination, (imation DVDs are like this). Please look at your favorite media before you buy this printer, I wish I knew this before I bought it because I don't want to switch media just to print a label clearly.

I have had and used one of these for two years, and I find it workable and useful, despite its obvious graphic shortcomings. Most fonts appear somewhat pixilated when printed on CD surfaces. I have developed a 'palette' of fonts that work particularly well. Sans serif fonts such as Futura, Franklin Condensed and such seem to work the best.
Graphics tend to look particularly rotten, no matter how high the dpi of the image is. I am non-amazed at how an outline of a rectangle, made in bold, thick lines and saved at 1200 dpi, comes out looking like mud. This printer is best at simpler jobs.
The printer does its work quickly, which is good. I've had to bat out 50 or 60 CDs in an afternoon, and the printer is faster than I am with the discs!
THE SINGLE BIGGEST DRAWBACK to this and to other Casio CD printers are those @$(^@_^_@!~ ribbons. The ribbons hold exactly 40 prints. If you use 2 per CD, that means a fresh ribbon after every 20 discs. The ribbons are not sold in office supply stores. CompUSA carried them for a brief time, then moronically deleted them. And don't even think about OfficeMax, -Depot or Staples. The cheapest I've found the ribbons is here, at $7.00 apiece, or sometimes on eBay for less. I am always "counting bullets" with these infernal ribbons. IF YOU ARE CONSIDERING GETTING ONE OF THESE, TAKE THIS TO HEED: the ribbons are a supreme pain in the ass. They are hard to locate, expensive, and wastefully manufactured. The greedy souls at Casio could easily get another 20-50 prints' worth of ribbon on the cartridges.
As well, the ribbons often have flaws in their manufacture, making for fuzzy half-coverage of some prints.
I am probably making this printer sound worse than it really is. As said, if your ambitions are simply to have a title printed in regular type, without much ado, this will do the trick. If you seek anything more complex, you'll need a bigger and better machine.

This is a nice product. Only slightly larger than an external CD-drive, this thermal transfer printer can directly label CD-type discs (-R, -RW, DVD -RAM, -R, and -RW). The print design is fairly limited and it will only do so in one color, although ribbons of various colors are available so you can choose which one color you wish. Unlike thermal transfer printers that cost 10X to 20X more, this printer will not put graphics and complicated designs on your disc. You are limited to several lines of print in whatever fonts are loaded on your computer. Although you can't produce truly professional looking discs, the results are drastically superior to those sticker labels that never seem to stay attached or writing on the disc with a marker. The print is crisp, easy to read, and doesn't scratch or flake off. To work well, you need to print on a blank area of the disc. It doesn't print well over either writing or slightly raised areas of design on the disc. This printer is well worth the money if want to label your discs neatly, but do not want to spend an exorbitant amount of money.