Brother MFC-8420 Laser Multifunction Review

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(More customer reviews)I went through a slew of hp printers. I experienced lousy, "outsourced" technical support, and had two printers fail in the same year. This on the heels of my friends brand new color laser fiasco, which was three failures in one year (also HP). They used to be the best, with printers like the 4050n and other tireless workhorses, but I think other vendors are now making significant inroads, especially in this middle ground space. You'll find HP laser printers to be profoundly expensive for what they buy, with high print costs, and low ram. The 1300 is a fine example of where HP has gone wrong.
So, we took the plunge on this 8420 (we got the "one up" D model, which includes duplexing -- works like a charm, and at about 1c a page (as the cost of paper) it will pay for itself quickly).
The upsides:
1) Very cheap toner. Especially the high yield. 6k pages for 90 bucks, which is more than any other cartridge we could find (and you get get those cheaper than 90 some places)
2) Very convenient. You've no idea how awesome a 50 page sheetfed scanner with OCR actually is until you need it. ;-)
3) Comes with a full toner cartridge. My hp's came with 1/2 full "intro" ones.
4) Best-of-breed. For it's downsides (below), it really is the best you can buy for the money.
5) It doesn't jam.
The downsides are:
1) It's a little slow to copy
2) High end color scans are not that hot. A little flat. If you want high end color scans, drop 60 bucks and buy a Scanjet 5300c. The scanner is really designed for document processing, at which it excels.
3) It's a little pricey to buy in. The high end models are overpriced for what they buy (duplexing for ~100 bucks, network for another 100-150). Yikes.
4) The software is a little "clunky", but it works
5) The warranty pretty much stinks (1 year). If you can get an extended warranty, it's a [really] good idea. With so many components, all-in-ones have that much more of a chance to fail, and they do. ;-)
Remember, inkjet printers are sold practically at a loss by their manufacturers (especially cheaper ones). They are designed to make up their money in ink cartridges. This is important when you are comparing all-in-ones.
Despite it's minor downsides, I'd highly reccomend this ot a friend. If you need something to get your business off the ground like we did, and don't want to spend a fortune or worry about being in constant IT mode keeping everything configured and working smoothly, this is the way to go. Faxing is a breeze, scanning is easy (50 docs at a time is a LOT btw), and printing is very high quality.
We combined this with a cheap bubblejet, and now we have the best of all possible worlds. We reccomend this route!!!

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Winner of the prestigious Editor's Choice Award from PC Magazine and combining all the necessary office machines into a single box, the Brother MFC-8420 is an excellent addition for home businesses or small networks. Including a laser printer and copier, color and monochrome scanner, and a 33.6 Kpbs modem fax, this convenient desktop assistant offers all the functions you need to keep printing and mailing costs to a minimum.
The monochrome laser printer and copier produces letter or legal sized pages at up to 17 ppm, with an outstanding 2,400 x 600 dpi resolution. Up to 99 copies can be sorted or reduced or enlarged at a range of 25 to 400 percent; manual two-sided printing helps you save on consumables. The scanner operates in either 48-bit color or 256-level grayscale, enabling you to scan full-color photos or monochrome documents. Either way, with an interpolated resolution up to 9,600 x 9,600 dpi, your scans will be impeccably smooth.
The fax provides a variety of sending and retrieval options designed to improve efficiency. Broadcast faxes up to 390 stations, or speed dial to any of up to 300 coded numbers. The 50-sheet automatic document feeder frees you from having to baby sit the box, while the 600-page memory guards against paper shortages. The MFC-8420 includes a one-year warranty with instant exchange service.

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Canon Pixma MX850 Office All-In-One Inkjet Printer (2436B002) Review

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(More customer reviews)My brief observations seem to indicate that the MX850 really doesn't improve upon the MP830 in some important areas.
I've owned the Canon MP830 for almost a year and and I just bought the Canon MX850 for a friend, so this is a direct user comparison. The 830 has been 100% reliable, producing excellent scans, prints, copies, and faxes. The MX850 is shorter in height, but otherwise just as bulky and heavy as the 830. Canon seems to be using a less robust scanner in the 850 than in the older MP830. Scans on the 830 are consistently over 4 times as fast: a 300 dpi 8.5x11" import scan into Photoshop CS3 took about 7 seconds with the 830 and about 33 seconds with the 850. The 830 wins in the noise category as well: it's roughly 60% quieter than the 850 when scanning. The 850 produces an annoying high pitched tone while the 830 has more of a low "murmer" sound. The 850, to be fair, will not be considered to be overly loud for most environments. With scanning, the color reproduction seems fairly close between the two machines, though I'm getting more color accuracy from the 830. Copies on the 830 produced more accurate colors, too: a copy of a TIME magazine cover on a matt photo paper (with settings set to "Matt Photo Paper" and "High") yielded extremely accurate reproductions of the original, while the the 850 veered too far toward the yellow end of the spectrum. Both produced excellent detail, though. Scans of dot-screen images were well rendered with the 830, while the 850 exhibited substantial moire effects.
Not sure about energy consumption comparisons though the 850's scanner seems to be using a more compact, (newer technology?) low lumens light-producing element than the very bright 830, so it probably uses less power.
Both machines will not disappoint, but with the advantage of my brief side-by-side comparison I'd recommend that you save $40 bucks and get the MP830. They both use the same ink cartridges. One last observation: the 850's LCD screen has a much higher pixel count, but that's only one small improvement amid the 830's superior traits.
3/18/2008 - Update: I've learned that the MX850 is using "contact image sensor" technology (CIS) where as the MP830 is using the more common "charged-coupled devices" (CCD) technology. For those with an interest in the tech aspects I've included some info I found online:
"Most of large format scanners in use today use CCD (charge-coupled devices) as the primary data capture element in their construction. Recently this position has started to be challenged by the lower cost CIS (contact image sensor) technologies, which have come mainly from the small flatbed scanner market. The traditional CCD or camera scanner is able to produce a very high number of colours from the scanned original and copes with folded documents reasonably well. These scanners tend to be preferred where the image to be scanned is either photographic or has extensive use of tones and shading. CIS scanners have the advantage in providing all the optics in a space of 20 mm or so, which in the CCD scanner equivalent would occupy more like 600 mm. The secondary advantage is that CIS scanners have no need for magnification, lenses or a rigid frame - a major saving in construction costs and weight. However, CIS scanners do not do so well when scanning very pale colours or photographs."


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This is an All-In-One powerhouse. Thanks to its patented print head technology and 5-color ink system, you¿ll create spectacular photos with 9600 x 2400 color dpi resolution1, and it¿s fast: A photo lab quality 4" x 6" borderless print takes only about 21 seconds2. Copies will be remarkably true to the originals, and when scanning photos you¿ll produce impressive 4800-dpi results, with vibrant 48-bit color depth. The built-in Automatic Document Feeder (ADF) holds up to 35 originals and enables automatic duplexing, so you don¿t have to manually turn over your 2-sided original. This versatile machine is networkable via an Ethernet connection, and offers an optional BU-30 Bluetooth interface3, so you can print wirelessly from a PC or PDA. You can also print photos right from memory cards4 ¿ selecting and enhancing images on the high-resolution 2.5" color TFT display ¿ or directly from a digital camera.

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Canon PIXMA iP4700 Premium Inkjet Photo Printer (3742B002) Review

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(More customer reviews)I purchased this printer after a lot of research here on Amazon and elsewhere. This printer is replacing an old Epson Stylus Photo 780 that I've had for years. I was really unhappy with the Epson because the ink heads clogged up constantly. I also wanted the newest printer possible, since I've had problems with other devices not updating their drivers, so this printer fit the bill.
The Canon printer has been wonderful for me so far. It was easy to set up and install and worked right away. I'm using Snow Leopard on a Mac, so I had to download the actual driver from Canon's web site, but this is easy to do and pretty self-explanatory.
I love that the printer is all enclosed. The regular paper sits in a tray at the bottom, and everything can be closed up so that dust doesn't get into it. Photo paper is loaded at the rear.
This printer has individual ink cartridges, a plus in my opinion.
I am using it lightly (10-15 regular color pages, 1-2 photos per week) so I have not dented the supply level on the ink cartridges, and can't really comment on how fast the ink runs out. The print quality is pretty good for the regular paper, and very good for photos. I was very impressed with the photos that I printed, they were sharp and the color was great.
The software drivers are adequate and not too confusing. I found this printer very easy to use and of good quality. I'm very happy with it, and it's miles better than my old Epson.


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Stylish Photo Printer with 5 Individual Ink Tanks and Built-in Auto Duplex Printing.

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Canon Pixma MP520 Photo All-On-One Inkjet Printer (2178B002) Review

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(More customer reviews)It has both front and rear paper feeders. I can load two types of papers and/or envelops and select the source either with a button or through computer. This is the very best part. What I hate about HP printers: they all have only front feeder. Because front-fed papers must go a 180 degree sharp turn around, they are never able to do trouble-free envelop and double-side printing. Prints always miss top or bottom, because paper is fed either too fast or too slow, absolutely no consistency. If you print large international mailing labels/forms, you know what I mean. Paper jam is your routine with HP. Canon has no such problems at all, at least with its rear feeder.
It uses 4 separated ink cartridges for all 4 colors. With those 3-in-one cartridges, I was always scared to print graphics, because one color always went faster and the entire cartridge must be thrown away. Now I can just replace a single color and I can physically see ink level!!! Even better, these cartridges are very easy to refill. I must admit that the color cartridges popped out by themselves and I think I'll call Canon like the other reviewer. With HP, cartridges are built with print headers, making them very expensive, difficult to refill and, if doable, for few times only before the printer head got clogged and must be replaced.
More expensive Canon all-in-one, such as MP530, MP830 and MX700, are all way too huge! This one is still quite big compared to printer-only models, but I still can put it on my desktop fine. Because it is not so tall and has a flat top, I can put my stationary plate on it; so it is big but does not waste the space.
Cheaper Canon AIO, such as MX300 and MP470, all use the stupid cartridges like HP and you'll pay much more on ink! Before you buy a printer, make sure it uses at least 4 individual cartridges. For Canon current models, it means "8" series cartridges (CLI-8C/M/Y).
I can't list all the good points, just these are enough: only $110, lowest cost on ink, rear feeder (& front!) and not huge. It does all the things for me and it does them all well at the lowest cost. For some people, what it does not do: fax and CD/DVD printing (only for special and more expensive blank disks).
The very similar MP610 can print CD/DVD with an optional CD tray that you can buy from eBay or make your own. MP610 uses one more extra ink, a dye black for color printing for better contrast. MP520 uses only one pigmented black ink that's good for water resistance but slightly less ideal than dye ink for photos. Overall, MP610 produces doubled resolutions over MP520, which really does not matter to me as MP520's resolutions are already superb and it's 4 lb lighter, slightly smaller and $100 less than MP610 and one less ink tank to deal with.
MP610 can also do automatic duplexing while this MP520 can do it manually only. Auto duplex is very cool, but it is very slow compared to manual duplex, so you may end up seldom use it and miss nothing with a MP520.
So, if you do lots of top-quality photo and/or CD/DVD printing, then go with the MP610. If you need fax, add a MX300 just for that function for only $58 from Walmart; don't buy the MP530 etc. - they are huge! If you don't print much, MX300 is the one and the only one you need. Otherwise, stay with MP520. In any case, never go HP. Don't go Epson neither because their integrated printer heads (non-removable) tend to clog and no way to replace or fix. If a Cannon printer head (removable) gets clogged, you can easily take it out and clean it with a bottle of compressed air. I know what I'm talking about.

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The versatile Canon PIXMA MP520 Photo All-in-One inkjet printer lets you preview, scan, copy, and print photographs and documents with one easy machine. This all-in-one printer features a compact, streamlined design that can preview images in high resolution on its two-inch TFT display, scan beautiful images with color resolutions up to 2400 by 4800 dpi, or print photos directly from memory cards, cameras, DV camcorders, or camera phones. The printer's Easy Scroll Wheel makes operation a breeze, while the Auto-Image Fix feature ensures that every photo is stunningly clear and vivid--even when scanning difficult items such as thick notebooks or faded images. In its helpful dual-paper tray, you can neatly store plain and photo paper at the same time.
Just press the Power button and get to work, thanks to the printer's helpful Quick Start design,. Copies come out crisper than ever with the system's Dual Color Gamut Processing Technology. Compatible with Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Mac OS X 10.2.8 to 10.4.x7 operating systems, this printer comes backed by a 1-year limited manufacturer's warranty.
What's in the Box Pixma MP520 photo all-in-one printer, cross sell sheet, easy setup instructions, quick start guide, setup software and user's guide CD-ROM, user's guide, PGI-5 black ink tank, CLI-8 (cyan/magenta/yellow) ink tank, power cord, print head, and sample media (8.5-by-11.5-inch sheets).

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HP Laserjet M1319F Mfp Printer Review

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(More customer reviews)I had an HP Fax 1010 for my home office, and it was a trouper - always worked great. But then HP had a recall due to potential fire hazard, and offered a rebate on several of their faxes and multifunction fax/printer/scanners.
So I went for the M1391F MFP. I don't really care about printing - I've got a color duplex laser printer for that. I wanted something that would fax, copy, and scan with an auto-feed.
Here's what it's good at:
1. Scanning letter-size pages (although their Mac software could use some work).
2. Copying letter-size pages.
3. Faxing letter-size pages to U.S. recipients.
And the document feed works great.
Here's what it won't do:
1. Scan legal-sized pages
2. Ring or make any kind of noise when it gets an incoming call, from a fax machine, cell phone, or land line. Even with all the volume settings turned to high.
3. Receive an incoming fax or phone call. At all. From anywhere.
The capper tonight was that I had to fax a time-sensitive document to New Zealand, and this piece of work thinks the NZ dial tone is a busy signal and won't connect.
I tried to access HP's live chat help desk, but nobody picked up in over a half-hour. So now I'm having an extended, hours-between-installments email correspondence with Nigel from Bangalore, and he's asking me to verify the model number and what version of Windows is on the attached computer and am I using USB. Well, there is no computer attached, Nigel, I'm using this as a detached fax machine. But as someone who's written printer drivers for your own company's printers, and fax software for your competitors, I can assure you that if the attached computer is preventing this unit from receiving faxes or recognizing international dial tones, you need to look for another job.
I dug out the old 1010 and it sent the fax just fine.
This unit has a wonderful feature set. If only it worked. It's useless to me, and I'm going to have to start looking for a fax machine that works.
When I was in grad school over 20 years ago, HP sold the best lab equipment money could buy. You knew if you got an HP gas chromatograph, or infrared spectrometer, or oscilloscope, you had the highest quality available on the planet.
Now... I've bought probably a dozen HP laser printers since 1990, and never even looked at another brand, with one costing over $10,000. But after this hunk of junk, I will certainly look at alternatives in the future.

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Satisfy your office needs by combining fax, copy and scan capabilities with high-quality laser printing. Just about everything you need is in the HP most affordable multifunction laser printer. Its a high-end fax machine that can do so much more. Save money with a multifunction laser printer with a low purchase price. Typical office print job time to completion can be more than two-times faster with Instant-on Technology. Connect to the network quickly with the reliable Hi-Speed USB 2.0 port. Use the host PCs processing power to complete complex jobs and avoid costly memory upgrades.Read and navigate menus easily thanks to the two-line, back-lit control panel.

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HP Photosmart C3140 All-in-One (Green) Review

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(More customer reviews)I recently hooked up my new HP C3140 with their new vivera inks and have to say that I'm happy with this product. I've always had very good luck with HP printers, and this one, so far, continues that tradition. It prints very nicely and reasonably quickly. I haven't tried the scanner yet. I think the ink costs somewhat more, at least per ounce, but as I don't print very much stuff, I'll try to keep a stiff upper lip about that. My printer is the white cased one, but I think these are just the same except for the color. Bought at Wal-Mart this time. Cheerio.


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Do you want a printer that can churn out photos at a quick clip? Check out this new model from HP, the world's fastest photo printer1. The Photosmart D7145 Photo Printer delivers 4 x 6'' shots in as little time as 12 seconds, and you'll get documents at 32 pages per minute black, 31 color. You'll also love the spacious 2.0'' color display and efficient, six-individual-ink system.

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HP DesignJet Z3200ps - 44" large-format printer - color - ink-jet - Roll (44 in) - 2400 dpi x 1200 dpi up to 2 min/page (color) - USB, 10/100Base-TX Review

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(More customer reviews)When I picked the Z3200ps 44" printer is was for these reasons:
1 - I wanted a pigment printer in the lab for long archive prints
2 - I needed a wide color gamut and the Z3200 ps really knocks it out of the park
3 - I like b&w photos but hate it when they turn green or yellow with age
4 - havng used 24" rolls, some charts outgrew them to 36" and finally 44" rolls
5 - media handling. Careful when you walk by this printer. It will pull your shirt off and print on it.
I've had some time to get to know the Z3200ps. It has a buit in rip and 80g disk to store your image once ripped so subsequent prints on various media are a no brainer. I bought an assortment of media from photo paper to banner paper and finally canvas which really made an impression.
The 2100 and 3200 printers use 130ml inks (but HP ships it with 69ml mini-inks like the mini-bar in a hotel). They get it calibrated and alligned but 50% of the ink is gone aftertwards. Fortunately a 20x24 canvas (heavy ink) print only used 3ml from the 1500 ml on board in 12 cartridges.
Yes thats right. 12 ink colors. Well really 11 because the gloss enhancer is clear! And it DOESN'T HAVE CYAN - JUST LIGHT CYAN. It does have magenta and light magenta. Let's cover the 12 inks
CMYPKMK:
c50% dark cyan
Mfull dark magenta
m- 50% dark magenta
Yfull dark Yellow
PK"photo black" - mixes with cmy above to avoid using cmy when dark colors are in photos. doesn't fade away from black
MK Matte black - for text mainly - shows up as matte on glossy media
RGB
GrGreen 100%
BlBLUE (not to be confused with cyan dark - it's not really blue either, more purple than blue)
RdChromatic Red (think fire engine / fast sports cars here)
B&W
LG Light Grey
GGrey (combined with photo black gives you 3 color b&w prints with no color in them - no "off black"
EGloss [E]nhancer - prevents bronzing
Now add them c, M, m, y, PK, MK, Rd, Gn, Bl, Grey, light Grey, Gloss enhancer. Yep even dozen.
You'll be happy to know the gloss enhancer, while sprayed everywhere, is only $55 instead of $78, but a full refill is $911 of all 12 carts. buying ink here on amazon will save you money over hp's price
As for printheads, yes, nozzles clog, yes, there is a cleaning step, and best of all, it knows what nozzles are clogged so with 2000+ It can average them out of the picture and prevent banding until it gets really bad. Each printhead has 2 colors assigned to it, and they are about $55. Now you can also clean just one printhead instead of all 6 of them which saves ink. Left plugged in, the printer automatically runs a periodic nozzle cleaning with minimal waste to keep them clean.
Color calibration is done with an i1 spectrophotometer for the material you are using. Tell your software to let the printer manage color and send adobe rgb 1998 to it. Then tell the printer it's getting adobe 1998 and it must mix and match. It will take a little from each color to make [carl sagan on] billions of colors.
The color gamut of this printer is only missing the metalics (a 13th cartridge would be too much), so you get accurate reproduction. It also comes with a monitor calibration system so what you see is what you get across many media.
The biggest surprise so far was the $1.28/sq ft matt universal canvas. Go for heavy inking and you'd swear an artist slaved all day to render your 12 megapixel dslr raw digtital negative into a painting. I have a roll of 24" canvas loaded now and am going to try some art reproduction with it and a scanner. You also have options to roll on clear sealer (acrylic) or use a brush and acrylic paints to turn the canvas into a real work of art.
If 44" and 12 inks isn't enough HP does make a 60" carriage, but sacrificed the 12 inks down to 8.
CONS:
Here they are
8" of each roll is needed for each new load to do a color calibration (and 20 minutes give or take)
high quality mode is slow as molassas to print
internal cutter can't cut canvas.
Carriage may be 44" but you have 6 bottles of ink on *each* side of that so the printer is wide.
postscript rip is kinda on the slow side but the good news is it keeps the finished jobs in the printers hard disk until you delete them, so you can improve your media choices without another rip and just print.
only has roll or sheetfeed - one sheet at a time. DJ130nr had a paper try, rear feed, front feed, and roll feed that could automatically take out the roll and feed from the paper tray, then revert to roll without a human.
power cords are shorter than the printer is long so be prepared.
squirt and wipe after 3 - 4 passes slows printing while carriage is in service station
Hard to find HP 70 130 ml carts in every color on [...] website - must dig around. Red is no. 73
"chromatic red" which makes me wonder about other no 73 carts
won't take the 300 ml #70 carts for the 5200 (besides wrong colors)
Plus side
Comes with GB ethernet and usb. The GB net is *NICE*
As of 7-2010 HP finally got win 7 to work with this printer. Took long enough. I had to revert to vista when I got this (ugh) and was changing o/s more often than people change underware.
Lots of space to store caibrations for medias you come across
Heavy support for fine art media
Comes with $300 stand in kit and adapters for different core sizes
comes with power cords for every country on earth
200 watts printing, almost nothing in power down mode. Adjustable delay to enter power down.
Nice b&w lcd on front for loading paper and calibrating color
orange cancel button
relatively easy to fix skew problems with the blue lever that opens up the gripper and allignment marks
To sum it up - with the introduction of the Z5200, my bet is the z3200 will drop in price soon and might make a good value then. The 5200 only uses 8 inks and is built on the same chassis as the 3200. Since the 3200 mixes from all 12 inks almost equally you get good life from 12 cartridges. Add to your watched list and watch the price drop - the 5200 was just introduced as I write this.

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This 12-ink HP Z3200ps Designjet printer, with new HP 73 Chromatic Red ink, delivers long-lasting gallery-quality prints in black and white and color.

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Brother MFC-8680DN High-Performance Laser All-in-One Machine with Networking and Duplex Review

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(More customer reviews)After getting a Macbook Air and finding out that my HP OfficeJet 845xi was not supported (what does that say about HP), I decided to buy a Brother MFC-8680DN and what a pleasant surprise -- I took it out the box, plugged it in and it worked, no questions asked. Recently, I changed my network and it caused problems connecting to my MAC laptop -- I called Brother and got brilliant support and what a pleasant surprise -- they directed my support call to a tech specialist that specialized in both Brother and Apple -- what a pleasant surprise -- HP is done selling me printers.

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High-Performance Laser All-in-One for your Business or Small Workgroup.The MFC-8680DN offers every function and feature that you would need in a laser all-in-one product for your small/medium business or workgroup. Its built-in duplexing (2-sided) is standard for printing, copying, faxing and scanning, and it even has a 50-sheet capacity multi-purpose tray convenient for printing envelopes, labels or various types of card stock. It also features a USB direct interface to print from or scan files to your USB flash memory drive.

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Epson Discproducer PP-100 Review

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(More customer reviews)I searched for quite a while to find a disc publisher I could rely on. So many of the products on the market have reliability or quality issues. The Epson PP-100 has been a great product. There have been a couple of bad discs, but the printer actually marks them as bad and continues working until it has produced the number of discs you specified. The on-disc printing quality is excellent, too.

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Epson's Discproducer is the advanced desktop publisher from MediaSupply.com you can rely on with its high performance, fast throughput and top reliability. It is designed for unattended operation and can burn and print up to 100 discs at a speed of up to 30 CDs or 15 DVDs per hour. And it has all the features you need to get the job done. Discproducer features a built-in inkjet printer with Epson's patented MicroPiezo technology. Using six colors, it delivers the highest print quality in its class with clear, crisp text and vibrant graphics. And it offers high-capacity cartridges plus individual LEDs for each ink cartridge to alert you when the ink level is low. Discproducer's robotic arm with patented AcuGripTM technology ensures that only one disc is placed in the drive or printer at a time, eliminating dual feeding that can damage the drives and interrupt unsupervised production runs. Many disc publishers have a single input bin and a single output bin. Epson's Discproducer, however, has three unique operating modes for you to choose from depending on the size of your job: batch mode for larger production runs of up to 100 discs, standard mode for smaller production runs up to 50 discs and external mode for up to 5 discs with mixed media support. Discproducer's easy-to-use Total Disc Maker software includes disc selection, data formatting, label design and publishing functions all in one package. Using a graphical user interface, you can select data, design a label, config

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Lexmark Forms Printer 2580 ( 11C2550 ) Review

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(More customer reviews)These Lexmark forms printers are getting to be hard to find and expensive. Back in the early '90s these were known as IBM Proprinters and sold for a couple hundred bucks in a 24 pin.
Anyone who is using multi-part paper to print forms still needs a good forms printer and these units are tanks! I've owned about 8 of them over the years and worn out the print heads (irreplaceable for the most part since parts are scarce and cost nearly as much as the whole unit).
Lexmark is still making these new units but since demand has segued to ink and laser the price has increased dramatically. Still the same old workhorse with push and pull tractor feed that will handle up to 7 (yes seven) part forms.

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Compact, affordable and easy to set up, the Lexmark Forms Printer 2580 offers performance as fast as 510 cps when printing up to 6-part forms (1 original + 5 copies).

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Kodak ESP 9250 All-in-One Printer (2773635) Review

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(More customer reviews)I just baught this all in one , because I needed to do some faxing, getting it out of the box and setting it up was simple, you just take it out of the box, and its ready to go. However the instructions on how to use it are in my opinion very limited,for example inputting your name or other information into it requires prior knowledge on how to do it, you must know about texting, since the instructions do not tell you you have to use the key pad like you would in texting. When you enter a fax number and you enter a wrong number it does not tell you you can back up and erase it by pushing the left side mark on the Ok ring. If you go to their website, it is not much better, Iam still fooling around with it getting to know everthing about how it works, so far it has been very simple. It works excellent, I have faxed a ton of papers, printed a whole bunch and copied a few, I have not used it for picture printing or copying yet but in printing the colors have all been very good so far, and it has worked flawlesly. It is kind of noisy but it is of no consequence to me. All in all Iam very satisfied with it.
PS.. Iam 72 years old and not very computer literate!!!

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If you want the latest features to print, copy, scan, and fax at home, the KODAK ESP 9250 All-in-One Printer is an easy choice. With the lowest total ink replacement cost in the industry, you\'ll save on average $110 a year on ink, based on as few as 4 pages a day. You\'ll also save time with features like an auto document feeder and two-sided printing. Top it all off with its amazingly simple Wi-Fi setup and intuitive control panel, and affordable lab-quality home printing is as easy as touch, print, share.

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Konica Minolta magicolor 1690MF - Multifunction ( fax / copier / printer / scanner ) - color - laser - copying (up to): 21 ppm (mono) / 3.5 ppm (color) - printing (up to): 20 ppm (mono) / 5 ppm (color) - 200 sheets - 33.6 Kbps - Hi-Speed USB, 10/100 Base-TX Review

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(More customer reviews)On the positive side, it prints very quickly in black, a little slower in color (it's a four-pass CMYK printer, meaning it prints Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black in individual runs or passes) but the quality of the color images are fantastic and are only limited by the quality of paper used. It scans acceptably well, not spectacular, but more than well enough for my needs. Haven't tried the fax portion and don't foresee doing so.
There are only two negatives that I've found: the machine is noisy even when not in use; it has a loud cooling fan that will run for a long time (more than 20 minutes); and it's shipped with what seems like only a few drops of black toner. If you buy this printer and plan to do any amount of printing right away, you need to get more black toner, pronto. The toner cartridge that came with it lasted less than a week with moderate usage.
So far I like it and would recommend it. The printer part of it gets five stars, the scanner four stars. The other qualities--noise, set up, features--bring the overall rating to four stars.

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Consolidate your office essentials with the magicolor 1690MF. This desktop all-in-one provides print, copy, scan and fax functionality in one small package. This multitasking color laser is the smallest ever offered from Konica Minolta. At only 17 tall it won't compete for desktop space. Despite its compact size, the magicolor 1690MF quickly delivers 20 ppm color and 5 ppm B&W. It's packed with user-friendly design features including a large, easy to read display, and a front access panel for quick toner replacement. An automatic document feeder makes copying, scanning or faxing multi-page documents a breeze. It also comes equipped with Simitri HD Polymerized toner which ensures smoother, more natural images and sharper text while saving 15% more energy. Space-saving design, quality results and user-friendly features make the magicolor 1690MF the last office assistant you'll ever need.

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Brother MFCJ6510DW Wireless Color Photo Printer with Scanner, Copier & Fax Review

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(More customer reviews)I did some serious research on all-in-ones before purchasing this. I hope this is helpful:
I had felt burned by previous HPs and Epsons because of the cost of ink and the frequency or replacing cartridges and I was determined to find an economical printer. . . This is it.
The good:
very economical -one of the most economical all-in-one inkjets available based on extensive research
wireless printing works great
wireless scanning works great
11x17 printing and scanning
prints reliably and quickly
Areas for improvement:
had some minor paper jams till I learned to load the paper exactly right.
paper tray is somewhat inconvenient because you have to remove the whole thing to load it.
limited options for print quality settings
I compared printers based mostly on ink cost/ page yield. Some of the better performers are listed at the bottom of this review. My research showed that each printer brand offers ink cartridges that are far more economical than others from the same brand. Brother's best value cartridge (for all-in-ones) is the LC-65 or LC-79. HP's best value cartridge is the HP940XL. Epson's is the 127 , Lexmark's is the 105XL/ 100XL, Canon's is the PGI-7/ PGI-9.
I chose this Brother MFCJ6510DW because the cost per page for the Brother LC79 cartridge was one of the very best ($.0333 per page avg.) and the LC79 cartridges are very large so don't need to be replaced as often. (2400 pages black, 1200 color). Compare this to my old Epson CX9400FAX. ($.0595 per page avg., 370 pages BW and 500 pages color with the Epson 68 cartridge) My old HP was even worse.
Read this article here: http://www.action-intell.com/2011/01/19/brother-brings-out-the-big-guns-in-low-cost-per-page-battle/
I was a little skeptical cause I'd never purchased a Brother. It is not as nicely designed as HP or Epson but it is OK looking. I like that it can print (and scan) 11x17. Wireless printing was pretty easy to setup and it works great. You can even scan and wirelessly send the scans to you computer. (worked the first time). The only problem I've had with it is some minor paper jams but I learned that you have to load the paper tray just right and it hasn't happened since. The paper tray is a bit inconvenient cause you have to remove the whole thing to add paper (like old full-size copy machines).
I've had it for about a month and have printed a 2" thick stack of 8.5x11 color prints (with about 30% page coverage) on the highest setting and still haven't run out of ink from the original (non-high-yield) cartridges. I haven't tried many of the other funstions except scanning and printing but I will re-post if anything comes up. . .
results of ink yield (figures based on average page yield vs ink cost between color and BW):
HP Officejet Pro 8500A Plus e-All-in-One Printer - A910g
cartridges: HP 940XL
avg $.0315 per page
Brother MFC-6890CDW
cartridges: LC65
avg $.0322 per page
Brother MFC-6490CW
cartridges: LC65
avg $.0322 per page
Brother MFC-5895cw
cartridges: LC65
avg $.0322 per page
Brother MFC-J6710DW
cartridges: LC79
avg $.0333 per page
Brother MFC-J6510DW
cartridges: LC79
avg $.0333 per page
LEXMARK PLATINUM PRO905
cartridges: 105XL/ 100XL
avg $.0432 per page
LEXMARK PINNACLE PRO901
cartridges: 105XL/ 100XL
avg $.0432 per page
Epson WorkForce 840 Color Ink Jet Wireless All-in-One with Fax (C11CA97201)
cartridges: 127
avg $.0438 per page
Epson WorkForce 635 All-in-One Printer
cartridges: 127
avg $.0438 per page
Epson WorkForce 630 All-in-One Printer
cartridges: 127
avg $.0438 per page
Epson Stylus NX625 All-in-One Printer
cartridges: 127
avg $.0438 per page
By the way, the LEAST economical printer in my research:
drum roll. . .
The Epson WorkForce 325 All-in-One Printer
cartridges: Epson 125
avg $.0839 per page. Each cartridge prints only 230 pgs black and 305 pages color before needing to be replaced.

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MFC-J6510dw;Professional Series Inkjet All-in-One with up to 11" x 17" (Ledger-Size) Print / Copy / Scan / Fax and Duplex Printing;;The Professional Series MFC-J6510dw is perfect for printing, copying, scanning and faxing up to 11" x 17" (Ledger Size) documents.Create two sided documents up to 11" x 17" in-house.Easy to setup wireless (802.11b/g/n) or wired Ethernet network with embedded web support connects to others on a network. The 3.3" Widescreen color LCD display allows you to easily navigate through menu options and offers access to help information.Uses Super High Yield (XXL series) replacement ink cartridges approx. 2,400 pages black and 1,200 pages color.▼Convenient unattended fax, copy or scan with the up to 35-page ADF.The large 250-sheet paper tray capacity will be useful for handling large print jobs. ;▼Approximate page yields in accordance with ISO/IEC 24711.

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HP Officejet Pro 8500A Premium Wireless e-All-in-One (CM758A#B1H) Review

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(More customer reviews)I have only had this printer a few days, and all I can say is "WOW!" First a bit about purchasing from Amazon.com: It's over $100 cheaper than at local office supply stores here (I saved $160 including tax), Amazon's service and delivery are A-1, and the printer arrived in great condition.
Now about the printer: I've never had such a nice printer. In draft mode, it prints about 35 ppm, and the pages are very legible. Color copies are beautiful. For a home based business or even a small business, you can print your marketing materials on this and they will look professionally done. The touch screen is great, the set-up was basically plug and play. The fact that it takes two-sided copies for faxing, copying and scanning saves so much time.
One thing that's lacking: I wish it came with a complete instruction manual, instead of just the fax manual, though.
I love this printer! You should buy one -- from Amazon.com!

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Create professional-quality color prints and marketing materials for up to 50% lower cost per page and energy use than lasers.Use business apps to print from the Web-PC-free. Print from a mobile device, using HP ePrint.

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HP Photosmart eStation All-in-One (CQ140A#B1H) Review

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(More customer reviews)OK, I would actually go for more of a 3 1/2 star rather than a 3 or 4. (UPDATE: I would go with more of a 4 1/2 after a week of use and getting used to how this works and figuring in how it fits into the home.)
First off this is a home device. This is not something that you want for an office. That being said, if you have it in your mind that this is a device for the home, then your perceptions of this will change.
Also this a hybrid device, so as such, you really have to look at each part and see if they are worth it.
The printer sans touchscreen. The printer itself can be used to Scan, Copy and Print, all wirelessly, and with a built in double sided printing module. The prints seem to look good and it prints fast. Photo prints looked fairly good as well. Replacement ink cartridges run around $10 for the regular capacity (bout 300 prints) to around $27 for the XL (about 750 prints). I do like that each color has its own cartridge so you only need to replace what you run out of. I can even use the HP iPrint app on my iPod touch and print PDFs, and photos from there. I can also scan directly to the iPod using the App. When Apple does the Airprint in the new iOS 4.2 it should also support printing from many more apps. What was especially neat was that when I used Docs to Go and choose to open a PDF from there in the iPrint app, I could print it. The printer also has the ability to use the ePrint feature without the tablet, which enables just about anything sent to a specific email address for your printer to print. Say you were at a local hotspot reading an article that lets you email it to somebody . . you need to go and want a copy of the article for some reason . . just email it to your printer and when you get home it will be there in the paper tray waiting when you get home. Overall, I would compare this to other $200 to $250 dollar printers out there for this functionality. However while I'm doing all this, somebody could be using the tablet to browse the web.
Which leads to a brief review of the tablet itself. Now I've used an iPad and let me tell you this is no iPad. That being said, a better comparison would be other $150 android based tablets out there that are this size. (UPDATE: I would compare this more with a NOOK with some extra bells and whistles - I talked to a manager at the local staples about it. He stated that he was just at a conference where the HP rep indicated it would have more android capabilities towards the first part of 2011).
It has the standard Android buttons, headphone jack, volume up and down, power, a mini USB port, and SD card slot. The screen is like that of an iPod or iPad in that it is based on the touch receptive glass (not sure of the fancy technical name for this). Yahoo and Barns & Noble must have paid a bundle as it is very centric to them, which is a annoying at first, but you can actually remove or at least hide some of this by customizing your home screens and favorite apps. Also if you start thinking of it as a 7" Nook with some extras then you'll be happier. Fortunately there is a generic email client under the hood so that you can set it up with something other than Yahoo Mail (almost returned it right there). I have it set up for both my wife's and my Gmail accounts and we can switch accounts easily to see our mail. There are a handful of apps built in that are nice such as QuickOffice for viewing MS Office files (no editing tho) and PDFs. There's also a calculator, web browser, RSS News feader (limited though),and a Facebook app that I like better than the one on my iPod Touch. There are also a number of other apps that are not the Print Apps. I Would like to see a Twitter App, and a YouTube App as well as some simple games like Sudoku, or even a (cough cough) a Kindle App.
HP has it's own custom Android skin and you can only download apps that it has listed. Most of which are the ePrint Apps as they call them. There are lots of these for all the different holidays, kids activities, recipes, etc. When you consider this a home device, these apps can be nice to quickly print off an activity for the kids to do if they are driving you nuts and none of the coloring books you have are good enough for them as . . oh sorry . . .let me get back on focus. I've never been a big facebook user, mostly as I don't care enough to take the time to turn on my computer and I don't care for the app on the iPod. I've actually check my facebook a couple of times this weekend and even replied to my sister for once. Anyway. the device can be a bit sluggish when using the web browser or news headline apps, but seems fairly responsive in the email, facebook, reading ebooks, and eprint apps. You can also print from the device when it's not docked, and control scanning as well. By the way, YES you can scan photos directly to an inserted SD card slot. This can be handy when grandma comes by with photos she's taken and didn't think about getting you a copy or getting you the digital file. Just pop'em in and scan them to the SD card. No need to turn on the computer.
When the tablet is connect you can then do eFax as well. No remember this is a HOME device and not an office device. Because you can send/receive 20 faxed pages per month for free. After that you can still do more, but there is a charge for it. That being said, in the past 2 years I've rarely sent or received and faxes. Only when we were taking advantage of the lower rates and decided to refinance our house. I probably went over, but there is no phone line where we have our printers set up and with the previous print/scan/copy/fax, I would have to pull a very taut phone line to it, make sure the kids weren't anywhere around to run it to the line and knock it all over, and pray that it would work. For me the 20 page monthly limit of efax is a non issue and is actually a plus. (UPDATE: I was also looking at Windows 7 and there is a built in fax application there. I can plug my laptop into a phone line and scan wireless the documents as a PDF and attach them to the fax. I little bit more fuss than using a doc feeder as you scan each page separately BUT that's all I really need.)
Would I buy this for an office? Absolutely NO.
Would I buy this again for the home? Probably. Mind you, I've only had this two days. I like what I've seen so far, but I still feel guilty about spending this much money. It is really cool tho. (UPDATE: Yes I would buy it again, provided I like the idea of getting a bundle of the Printer with essentially a powered up Nook with some extra capabilities.)
(UPDATE: After using the printer several days I was having a problem with ePrint from HP saying that the printer wasn't connected for email printing even though everything worked in my house. After reading the forums, I ended up disabling the power saver using the IP address for the printer in my home network. Then turning the printer itself (not the Zeen) off then back on and it has been up and running since. Seems like this is a problem with the printer going to sleep and HP's servers not being able to wake it up to print remotely. But I have it working now so that's a relief. Seems this a problem that effects ALL the HP printers capable of ePrinting and is not specifically a problem with this printer.)

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A stylish design isn\'t the only thing that sets the HP Photosmart e-Station All-in-One apart. This workhorse delivers full Web browsing with high-performance printing, copying and scanning, and its detachable 7" full-color touchscreen puts wireless Web browsing and remote printing in your hands. The HP Photosmart e-Station has print speeds of up to 33 pages per minute black and 32 ppm color and integrated wireless 802.11b/g/n so you can print and even fax from multiple PCs in your home. You can print Snapfish photos, coupons, movie tickets and other great Web content without a PC using print apps and the HP TouchSmart screen, and HP ePrint makes it easy to send photos, documents and more from any mobile device directly to this all-in-one. The HP Photosmart e-Station has a 125-sheet input tray, a 20-sheet auto-engaging photo tray, automatic 2-sided printing and a flatbed scanner that lets you scan 3D objects and documents up to 8.5" x 11.7" . You can also print borderless photos up to 8.5" x 11" . Individual inks and high-capacity cartridges help cut down on printing costs, and this Energy Star-qualified inkjet printer helps you conserve energy. WHY BUY?

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