Printer Reviews

At first this machine looks promissing. But the software support is bad. It has a problem with the serial connection. Plus the image editing software needs more improvements.

This mahine is a great addition to my profit centers in my small business. Since I have purchased I no longer need to out source my stamp business. This machine is easy to use and works every time!

This machine has saved me so much time and money! This machine creates high quality stamps far superior to stamps that I have been previously ordering that take 2-3 weeks. I can now make my own stamps in house and at a cost 1/5th of what I was paying to have stamps made. I have owned this machine for over 9 Mo. and have had no issues. Brother does provides a support phone # specifically for this machine and supported me wonderfully with the one simple question I did have.

This is a great basic printer! While as others have noted it is a bit loud and a bit slow, but for the price I certainly won't complain. I have generic cartridges and both work great! Just printed my first photos and it was simple and the quality is very good! I used the Epson glossy photo paper that came with the printer and will continue to use it to print photos from my digital camera. What sold me on this printer was that the cost of the cartridges was not [$$$]! Will order generic cartridges on line for [$$$]!

I received this printer free with a Dell computer purchase. It seems to work great for both text and photos. My only concern is that the first black print cartridge went fast! With average home use (mostly kids doing school work), it only lasted 1 month. My color cartridge is half empty. I hope the refills will last longer than the original but just in case I ordered several refills.

The first cartridges used for the Epson C42UX printer will not last very long, per the documentation, in order to prime the printer initially. I am on my second cartridge, and it has lasted a good while.

I have 2 of these printers for our offices. They are both workhorses and churn out 1000 pages at a time with ease. I buy the toner for a good deal ... so they are very inexpensive to use. They work fine on my server/network. They are a little noisy but that doesn't seem to bother anyone here.

This printer is from an era of color laser printing where four toners rotate inside the printer while making the image. All printers like this make a heck of a racket when they print. HP 4500/4550, HP 2500, HP 1500, Minolta 2200/2300, etc. They all clammer around as they print. So you can't blaim the noisey printer... it is what it is... that's the technology used in these things. So far though this printer has been a work horse. I picked it up from a friend for $200 with a full load of toner. I hate Lexmark printer, laser and otherwise... but this thing has been rock solid for. Mine has the HD option and 384MB of ram so maybe that's why it gives me no trouble. I think if you can pick one up for cheap then hook it up. Good luck finding reman toner for it though. I did eventually. Now it costs me a loaf of bread, a bottle of wine a few cheetos to print with it. It wieghs a ton and sounds like a train wreck but it works like a locamotive. In the past month I've put 4,000 pages through it with out error and I still have 60% of my toner to spare (not heavy coverage).

If you can find this printer for a few hundred dollars less, it would be a great value. Otherwise, there are quieter printers in the $2,200 price range available from HP and Tektronix worthy of consideration

Output quality and paper handling is very good. Works well in both a Windows XP and Mac OS X environment. Its main negative is its a little noisy. Otherwise, its quality is as good with other similar color laser printers.

I bought this to replace my 11 year old Epson AL1500 and was sorely disappointed to discover it will not work with a print server. Samsung Tech Support confirmed this and suggested I get a different printer.

It's noisy as heck while warming up, and I wouldn't call it quiet when it's printing. But it's pretty quick, has good text quality (print quality for graphics is only fair) and is inexpensive. You can frequently find rebates that drive the price down a little more.

I don't think I'd put it through heavy-duty use, but for a home office or small office, it should do the job pretty well. It also works with a parallel printer cable as well as a USB cable, which means I didn't have to replace the cable from my prehistoric inkjet printer when I upgraded to this little laser printer. That saved me from crawling around on the floor!

The manual comes only on CD-ROM; you might want to print out the important parts to keep handy. Installation was pretty straightforward on a machine running XP.

This is a great printer, it's fast without compromising quality. The toner replacement is around $70, which is on the high side for laser printers in this class. But I looked into refill kits and found that you can refill your toner 9 or 10 times for the same price as buying 1 replacement, it's worth checking out.

This LCD screen is great eye candy, sure, and it doesn't take up as much room as your basic desktop monitor, and it's a good buy for a person who does nothing on their computer but, say, word processing and web-surfing. BUT, if you are a computer gamer of ANY kind, this is a very, very bad buy for you. It's not just this LCD monitor in particular, it's all LCD monitors- they become a blurry mess in almost any kind of computer game, primarily FPS (First Person Shooters), flight sims, RPGS (Role Playing Games) and just about any game where the action is remotely fast-paced- even in some strategy games, such as
Age of Empires II. Besides the fact that this [thing] costs mucho grando dinero, the blurry-factor is enough to dissuade the wise buyer. Ciao!

This monitor is amazing! You must see this to believe it. It's the most wonderful consumer level piece of electronics ever made!

I have to utterly disagree with the former review. I have *2* of these monitors, one at home and one at work, simply because it is such an enormous improvement ona CRT monitor. Your eyes will totally thanks you, believe me.

The picture quality is fantastic - sharp, easy on the eyes.

Overpriced? It's all relative. To me, it's worth every cent, and I am never going to work with a CRT monitor again.

we use this printer at work and can't wait to replace it. it takes too long just to turn it on (sounds like the print heads are cleaning), is very noisy and lately will not print (flashing red light comes on). we have uninstalled and reinstalled which seems to work for the first print job and then the red light comes back on. and like other reviews, the ink cartridges need to be replaced frequently (we don't print very often). this is the worst printer we have had and will not buy epson again. we have only had this printer for about a year and purchased it new.

If you own an Epson Stylus C60, you will become acquainted with this cartridge.

The features claimed by the company are accurate in my experience. It installs easily, it is smudge free, and it dries quickly. There is no need to get into the details about those features.

The printer is intended for low-level printing needs, and is meant to be easy to use. It is.

The downside of an entry-level color printer is that the cartridges are used up quickly. Epson might be bound by engineering, that only a limited amount of ink could be secured inside of a limited size cartridge. It could be they held back. I do not know. What you should be aware of is that, no matter what the reason is, you should have plenty of the black cartridges on hand.

This is not ink for a printer meant for small businesses, including home offices. This is for the computer user who rarely prints, but like to print in color, who does not mind waiting while the cartridge hits the page.

Anthony Trendl

I have had no problems with these ink cartridges, and I wouldnt expect problems since they are manufactured by Epson. However both black and color cartridges run out of ink very quickly, sometimes even when I do not use it. I am guessing it is caused by the start up, since everytime it starts the printer sounds as if it is cleaning itself and probably using up some ink. I print mostly black and white, yet both color and black cartridges need to be replaced after each quarter of my school year (10 weeks). I print about thirty pages each week.

Let me start out by saying that I'm an HP-certified printer tech, and I generally really like HP's printers. The HP LJ 8550n has excellent print quality, reasonable print speeds, and a high capacity for upgrade. Unfortunately, it's also a constant problem. Even lovingly maintained, this printer is a royal pain in the pocketbook. In the course of 6mo, I've had to replace 1 formatter ($1500), 1 duplexer ($200), 3 transfer kits ($300), and countless other parts that shouldn't be replaced that often. Take the advice of an HP guy and avoid this money pit. HP has many other printers which are far superior to this monster.

Okay, maybe I got a lemon out of the bunch, but I would never recommend this printer to anyone. Constant paper jams (even with extensive cleaning and maintenance), paper errors, and I can run a mile in less time than it takes this thing to warm up.

Print quality is very good (after it's warmed up for 5 minutes), but with all the other headaches I've had with this printer, it's not worth it. I spend more time fixing this printer or having a warranty call on it than it spends printing.

Go with Canon or Xerox. Stay away from this overpriced printer.

Everything is great with this printer, the color is tremendous.
Print speed is very fast and very clear.
The only bad thing is the warm up time which is several minutes.

I have to say, I have been a loyal HP fan, and I picked this printer to replace my old 2000 model, which I loved. I wanted a HIGH capacity ink machine, that would do color printing without the constant cartridge change of less professional models. This printer (my second one) is nothing but an albatross. It has never worked right from day one. The first one, which was exchanged for this new one, was defective, shook the table apart and never was able to get going. The new one is worse. The on off button does not work until it feels like it, it jams paper, it bands the colors completely missing some spots of color, it is WAY too noisy, it prints in jerking steps and comes out of the machine in jerks, print quality is somewhat grainy, nothing like the quality I have come to expect from HP printers. I have an emergency $29.00 HP models Inkjet 3520 that has FAR superior print ability. Shame on HP! POOR POOR design. I am still awaiting a return for this one! I would recommend you DO NOT get this machine, as it is a dinosaur.

I work in an engineering firm and we use for our A4 color prints both a color laser ( xerox phaser 6250 ) and the HP 3000.
We have the 3000 since two years and we have printed around 80000 pages without troubles, except for an input tray which had to be substituted.
The 3000 is very fast ( even if not so much while printing on hp special papers ) and everybody appreciate both the reliability while printing and the network installation which has been absolutely trouble free.
I love it since I can print ACAD files ( covers of our papers ) and JPEG photos without thinking whether this time the driver will work well or not, whether I'll have a paper jam or the ink will smuggle.
I have had only some troubles with some HP photo papers ( it smuggled ) , whereas with HP brochure papers it works perfectly.
On the contrary the xerox 6250, which costs much much more than the HP 3000, even if it incredibly fast and the laser quality is better than inkjet for printing graphs and chart bars, is not very appreciated since it has great problems with the PCL driver, it has much more paper jams and the cost of the
consumables is extremely higher. We also have a HP 2600 which is a very poor product.
If you need a fast and reliable inkjet for high volume prints go in a network environment, I think you'll be very happy with it.

This printer works great for me. I find the quality is good enough for me to use draft mode for printing fliers. The printer has great print quality (for a non-Photo printer) and is exceptionally fast. There are four separate print cartriges which have remtoe print heads to printing is relatively econominal. One thing to note is that the printer senses when the print cartrige is empty and will stop printing. This isn't a problem for me, but it might be for people tring to refill cartriges or who want to stretch the print cartriges to the end. Also, the printer can get pricey if you purchase bundled with the duplexor and the print server options.

I got the Freedio printer after seeing it listed in the accessories catalog of my new E-115. After installing all the software, I couldn't get it to work and contacted Casio support. They informed me that it doesn't work with Pocket PC devices, because there is no task bar to activate the print routing from.

Greetings! Unfortunately I have to disagree with Neil - the FZ-500P does NOT work with the E-115. I just received it and the manual clearly states that it does only support models up to the E-105. Casio's customer support center confirms that. But to all the pre-E-115 owners: This device is sooo cool :) Just buy holding it in my hands I can tell that I would LOVE it (if it would work with my Cassiopeia). That's why I give it 3 stars (kinda to stay neutral).

Other than that: Don't Panic! (42)

When I got my E-115, I bought the portable handheld printer at the same time. It works wonders. With small companies you can print out receipt. You can make business cards on the go. Hand someone a really great looking note which the will never lose. Really it work with any windows CE PDA that has a IrDA infrared port. With 64 different shades of grey and 400 dpi this isn't one of those black and grey printers. The one problem I had was power, it chew up batteries, like a cat and mouse, it's best to buy those rechargeable batteries right away. Just think, if you ever run out of paper the Freedio stores the print command in it's memory and prints it later when you have enough paper. It makes a great partnership with the FZ-700S scanner, once a document is scanned it send it via the IrDA port and prints the document. This is a great buy.

Dymo's LetraTag series is cheaper, smaller and has similar capabilities. But for the substantial rebate, this item would be grossly overpriced.

I got this because there was a rebate that made it end up costing (very little). I already had the Brother PT-1750 but at less (money) I figured if nothing else I could give it to the kids. Anyway, the unit seems well built and solid but the tape it prints on is some two part stuff kind of like a stencil. Messy, fuzzy and it doesn't look like it will wear well.

I absolutely love mine. Works great and is portable!