Printer Reviews

The ink will kill you, especially the black. Generic ink? Forget it. It clogs the nozzles and you'll waste more than you will use cleaning the nozzles. This thing does give a good print-out, but it's not worth the high price of ownership. I had an 880 and loved it. I hate this.

The printer itself is a great product, especially for the price. The print-outs are of excellent quality and it prints fairly fast. However, it goes through ink SO FAST! I don't use it extremely often and I go through one black cartridge every month and a half.

This little printer was no trouble to set up and start using. It's a bit slow. Even just a black & white page takes quite a while. A full-color photo takes a couple minutes. The "draft" mode comes out verrrrry faint, but is really fast, and obviously uses a lot less ink (an important point, as you will see).

This printer uses a special type of ink, called "Durabrite", which is MUCH longer-lasting than normal inkjet ink. (It's a pigment-based ink rather than a dye-based ink.) Your printouts will not fade away like a normal cheap inkjet's will. The downside to this super-duper ink is that the ink is darned expensive. The good news is that the four colors are separate cartridges, so at least you only have to replace the one color you've run out of. The black ink, however, is the MOST expensive inkjet cartridge you'll see in the store. It's about twice the price of a normal black cartridge. Yes, your printouts will last some 70 years on plain paper, instead of vanishing within 2 years like the cheapo inkjets do. Three of those $25 black cartridges later, and you've just spent more on ink than the printer itself!

Strangely, the other color cartridges (cyan, magenta, and yellow) are only half the price of the black cartridge. Don't ask me why, I have no idea. Too bad the black is the one you'll be buying most often.

I should point out that this printer will try to con you into replacing the ink cartridges long before they actually run dry (it gives you all sorts of dire warnings about low ink levels). Don't fall for it. It will actually STOP printing when it's truly run dry, so just keep printing until it stops, and only then replace the cartridge that's empty.

So, should you get this printer? It depends on what you'll be using it for. If you want a cheap printer for making quick printouts that you'll be tossing in the trash within a couple years, get a different printer. If you want printouts that will still be legible 50 years from now, get this one. If you're an artist or photographer and want to make decent prints of your art that won't fade too quickly, this is a good starter printer for you.

The main drawback of this printer is Canon's design for getting ink to the print head. Because the ink has to seep through a sponge to get to the print head, the amount of ink flow is limited. For instance, if you were to print something that had, say, heavy black in one area, it would print okay for the first few lines, but much more than that and it'll start leaving blank streaks across your paper where there wasn't enough ink to feed the print head... effectively ruining your print. Also, it seems that the print heads get dirty quickly, as I have to run the print head cleaning program about once every two weeks.

I've used HP Deskjet printers for years and just recently decided to upgrade. My son needs a color printer so he got the HP-693c and I bought a Canon BJC-3000. My biggest complaint about the HP's was the single color cartridge - run out of one color and you have to throw the entire cartridge away. Not so with the BJC-3000.

I've had good results with the graphics and printed some photo-quality images using Kodak InkJet photo paper. You have to do some adjustments of the settings to get things right, but the results are very good once that is done.

The major complaint I have is the noise coming out of this thing! It isn't bad while printing, but during initialization and after printer a few sheets, it goes into a mode where it sounds like it is coming apart. All ink jet printers do this, but this one is especially noisy.

After searching through tons of other printers to purchase to go with my iMac, I finally settled on the Canon BJC-3000. It only took about 10 minutes to set it up - and that includes the amount of time it took to remove it from the box! The color is wonderful. The first few things I printed were on plain paper and the quality was great. When I put in special photo paper, it looked like you would expect - a photograph. I'm very impressed with the Canon - especially for the price...it performs much better than the HP 550C I purchased 5 years ago...

The speed and print quality is perfect for at-home use with professional-looking quality. As with any injet/bubble printer, using the right kind of paper for the job does make a difference. With the plain paper, text looked laser-jet sharp. Color looked just fine, as well, but it doesn't have the crisp quality of using special photo paper. Also, the color bled through the back of the plain paper, however, the color didn't run which saves on using that expensive for draft or quick copies.

The individual tanks are a lot less expensive than having to purchase brand new ones...

Another thing I love about it is that, in addition to my iMac, I also have an old IBM machine. Just for the heck of it, I plugged my printer into it, and guess what? Yes, it works. One printer that can be used on both platforms. All it takes to use it on both computers is the right cable. A USB cable for the iMac and a parrallel cable for the IBM. NOTE: No computer cables were included with the printer. They do have to be purchased separately.

Another note of versatility - Canon has an add-on that can be purchased to make the printer into a scanner. My understanding of the way it works is that you take out the toner cartridges and replace it with a scanning cartridge. I saw a demo, and it looked pretty simple...Not bad, but it is sheet-fed...However, if you have a small work area and don't have room for another piece of equipment, it would be a smart buy if you are desperately in need of scanning capabilities.

The savings in the long run on toner and paper, and being able to use it on both my IBM & Macintosh machines made this an intelligent choice for me. Plus getting the rebate? It certainly is the best [money] I've ever spent.

We loved this printer for about a day and a half. There is very little noise (that is) when it feels up to printing. However; when printer was out of paper and we refilled it, the feeder didn't operate properly. This didn't just happen once, it happened about 3 or 4 times. Even though there was paper in the paper holder and it was loaded properly, a pop up message box kept insisting that the printer was out of paper and refused to print any documents. I have only owned this product a few weeks and already it needs to be serviced.

You don't save any money using the cheaper ink tanks, vs. the costlier cartridges, as the ink tanks run out extremely fast. It prints well, but I wouldn't buy it again. It goes out of alignment and needs cleaning too often.

Received the printer yesterday - my first personal printer. Excellent quality of print on the normal A4 paper. Used it in color mode - seems slow if you're used to laser printers. The setup was a cakewalk for my machine with Windows XP. Assembling the printer itself was very easy as well, with the 1-page express setup visual guide ! The box got delivered much before expected delivery date, thank you Amazon.[com.]

My husband and I bought this "all-in-one" printer a couple years ago for $129... After a few months the scanner stopped working, since we were still under warranty, we managed to have it replaced, however, I have to say that it is a really mediocre printer, the paper jams a lot, the printing is never even, the ink cartridges are very small, etc. Right now I am buying another printer and will keep this one as a scanner only, for as long as it will work (cross my fingers). Look for another printer while you are still on time.

You can't get a better 3-in-1 printer/scanner/copier for this price. Of course, you can most definitely get a better 3-in-1 if you're willing to pay just a bit more. The Lexmark x75 is as mediocre as they come. The print resolution is sufficient for text documents, but less than good for graphics and pictures. The same can be said for the scanner function. On the plus side, the copier (copies in color and b&w) can operate independently from the PC at the push of a button. The older models require you to operate all the functions (print/scan/copy) through your PC, which means that you'd need to turn on your computer just to make a quick copy.

In terms of operation, this machine is very buggy. About 1/4 of the print jobs do not register. The error message tells you to fiddle with the USB then with the power supply cable. What you really need to do is restart your computer each time, then it'll spit out all the backed up print jobs in the queue. About 1/3 of the time, the first several sheets of your copy jobs come out as a giant black rectangle that covers the entire sheet of paper. Once it warms up, the remaining copies usually come out okay. Fortunately, it doesn't do that with the print jobs. To add insult to injury, this thing is an ink guzzler. The ink cartridges are not refillable and are expensive to replace.

Despite all the bugs, I'm giving this item 2 stars. It really saves your butt, say on the evening of April 15th when you need to make a couple copies of your tax forms before you head to the 24hr post office. Besides, what did you expect from a cheapy little printer?

The X75 is with me for 8 months, purchased from Circuit City at about $40. I am scanning extensively. I am printing also, but the cartridge being small and costly, I try not to print much. Be aware that its what you pay for. Get it cheap, go for it. Wait for good discounts and clearance on this one. Then you will be happy and smiling because it does everything you need scan, copy, print. The software is also good and I am satisfied with that. Not bad, this one!

We have this printer in our school and it is almost always broken! It doesn't last very long! I hate this printer because it prints very slowly and the printing is never like it was on the computer screen! Everything awful it makes for your printing paper if it's only working...!

We have been using this printer in our workgroup for about5months. Contrary to some reviews posted on Amazon earlier, we found that the printer is very quite, requires almost no time to warm up, and prints with excellent quality. I never measured how many pages it actually prints per minute, but its speed is certainly adequate for a small workgroup. User interface is inconvenient since it is limited to three poorly labelled buttons and three LEDs, and one has to refer to the user manual to interpret their blinking pattern each time something goes wrong. However, paper jams or malfunctions happen very seldom, if ever, and one does not have to use those buttons often.

Although our printer has a network card, we decided for the sake of installation simplicity to connect it to a Win-95 PC and share it on the network. This resulted in a problem that a Win-NT computer could not access the printer since HP drivers for NT were not fully compatible with drivers for Win-95/98 ...

I'd say its an entry-level laser printer for a workgroup. I would not recommend to buy it for home office in this pricy configuration with two paper trays and a network card.

Overall this is another nice printer from HP. We bought the TN networked version including PostScript capability for our Home Office where both my wife and I print from our respective computers and/or laptops. The setup and install of the network configuration drivers is a snap. Our network has a DHCP/Firewall device to share the cable modem and this printer works great in this "floating IP address" configuration. The print speed is good and the 1200 DPI resolution/print quality is notably better than our other HP-6P printer we still use as well.

I have only two compaints about the printer. First, in this day and age the Ethernet should be 10/100-BaseT capable. We knew it didn't have the support when we bought it, but it doesn't seem worth the extra money to buy the more expensive print server that supports it. Again, I think this an expected network feature nowadays. The second complaint is the sound level of the printer. It is definately noisier than the HP-6P that we have. The noise concern is not so much the printing noise as a small fan (I assume) that turns on and off while it sits idle. When there is any background noise going on you don't notice it, but when I'm working alone it can be distracting at times when it either turns on or off and changes noise levels.

In any case, overall, we like the printer and our happy with the purchase.

This ink cartridge does not have a generic brand so it is expensive and very difficult to find locally because the local computer and electronic stores can't keep up with the demand. The claim of printing more than 300 pages/cartridge is not true. I ran out of ink after 110 pages and had a tough time looking for the cartridge and finally found it here. If I only read the previous reviews, I would not have bought this printer.

My printer came with my Home Internet Appliance, so I didn't "CHOOSE" it. I think Epson sells their printers at reasonable prices, and then make their money on the cartridges. As everyone else has stated, their cartridges do not print as many pages as promised.

The ink works fine. It is expensive but I have not found any that were not expensive. I love the fact that it is self-contained (i.e., no spills, no mess - just pop out the old and insert the new).

The printer, copy, and scan functions all work great. I have only tried to fax a couple times and couldn't get it to work. The ink cartridges run dry frequently, one went out in only 11 days. I am not sure if it is because the cartridge dries that fast or because the print head gets clogged quickly and thinks its dry. Even with cleaning the print head it still runs out of ink too fast.

I have had the C5500 for almost 2 years now and have discovered all its faults and advantages. It is really no different from any other All-In-One device. At the time we bought it, there was only one other choice, the HP OfficeJet 500 (which we already own). The colors are marvelous, the blacks are also very good. It isn't that fabulous for sending faxs or making monocolour copies, but that's what I use my scanner for.

A very nice feature to the C5500 is AnsMode, where if you plug your answering machine through the unit, you can send faxes to the answering machine, but the unit will pick up and recieve the fax as normal.

But the reason i didn't give it 5 stars is the software. The unit is completely useless without the software. While you can copy and recieve/send faxes to a degree without the software, you cannot print as another printer similar to other printers. The software is often very problematic and sometimes doesnt start up properly, making you restart or plug a different printer into the unit. The software also crashes a lot both on Win98 and WinME machines. If you misplace the CD (I could've sworn I left it on the counter) it's a 40MB download just to make it work!!!

Unfortunately, the software gives the C5500 a bad reputation with me. If the software were re-designed it would earn the C5500 a 5 star rating because the unit is really and truly wonderful.

This multipass C5500 is a very good all-in-one machine. I recently purchased a new Dell computer, but this machine is not compatable with the XP os. I need to sell this one and buy another multifunction that will work with my new computer. I have the original box it came in, the software, documents and extra black cartridge still in the package, unopened, that goes to the successful buyer. This machine is in excellant condition and have never had any problems with it . I am the only owner. I purchased it new. Thank you for your interest. Daniel Rogers

The fax machine was reasonably priced & works well, but after buying 3 cartridges, I feel like I bought the fax all over again. In other words, the cartridges are overpriced and it's not even like the inkjet cartridges for which you can purchase ink refill kits. If you want to receive faxes, then you have to buy the expensive cartridges that I am sure didn't give me 100 sheets of print each. Amazon has the best price that I've found so far, but I still think the item is overpriced.

I bought these rolls of imaging film in June 2003. According to the package, they are for the following Sharp model numbers: UX-300, UX-305, UX-340L, UX-340LM, UX-345L, UX-355L, UX-355LR, UX-460, and UX-465L.

Also, just in case it's not clear to you, there are two rolls, 98 feet each, in the package.

I agree with other customers here -- this is a pricey way to print faxes. I try to receive and print most on my PC, but my UX-355L is great for sending.

Just thought I would let others know that the Ribbon UX-3CR
is also compatible for the the Sharp UX-340L. I went through
alot of hassle with the Sharp company to find that out so I thought I would save someone else the trouble. Good luck with
your fax, I hope this helps someone.

I have always been a big fan of HP printers. I have an HP 920c at work and love it. I was trying to find one for my home but they have discontinued it. Instead I bought this one and have been so disappointed with it. It jams all the time and the color isn't as good as the 920c. It makes a terrible noise when it is trying to pull the paper through and it always manages to pull at least 5 pages at a time. Now it is refusing to print anything. I am not happy with this printer at all.

Don't bother - very disappointing for an HP product. This printer fails to print consistently and "carriage stalls" frequently. This defect is clearly well known at HP Support. The manual solution, while effective, is not a real answer. Save your time and money on this one.(...)

When this printer works, it works well. I almost gave it 3 stars.

The problem is that it can not handle more than one sheet of paper in the tray at any one time. I connected the printer to my computer, that part was easy. The printer wanted to print a test page, so I let it. It then took two pieces of paper instead of one, printed half a page and jammed. I tired it again with less paper in the tray, it jammed again. It does not just paper jam, it also eats the paper as it locks up. This means that you have to open it up and fish the little ripped corners of the paper out of the machine before it will print again. The way to deal with this is to have only one piece of paper in the tray at a time, making multi-page print jobs a nightmare.

The quality of the printing, when it does work, is very good for such a low priced printer. I like that it comes with both color and black ink. Some low price printers only have the color ink included. The power cord for the printer is not made for power-strips, it is huge! It takes up 3 outlets, unless you plug it in at the end of the strip. The printer does not come with the USB cord, you will need this to print. The cord will cost more than half the price of the printer.

Good:
Print quality
Size of unit
Price
Ease of install
Ink included

Bad:
Paper jams
Power cord size
No USB cord

I bought this printer because it was the cheapest one I could find. I figured it couldn't be that bad, and I only really needed it to print papers for school. However, my frugality has cost me a lot of frustration and wasted ink. I have never had a printer suck down ink so fast, probably because I've never had a printer with such tiny cartridges. Plus, now it won't even print in black at all. I can't even get it to use the color ink to print anything black and white. Do yourself a favor: Spend more money and buy yourself a real printer.

It doesn't have the speed you'd want, but if you're just getting a new computer without a printer, this will be good for you. Don't expect it to last too long. Maybe a year or so. It's good for its money.

I bought this printer for travelling, and it's quite satisfactory. Very light, compact, easily fits in a suitcase. Print quality is perfectly adequate. It does use up ink pretty quickly, but if you only print black and white (as I do), the large black ink cartidge is a much better buy.