Apollo P 1200

Advantages: Cheap, good value for the money
Disadvantages: slow, prone to paper jams, flimsy

My Apollo p-1200 printer came as an add on to my PC package, it was only an extra £20 so I thought that I could not go wrong. So did I go wrong, has it been worth it? Well, the print quality for a cheap printer is very good, in top mode it really looks very good. This is an ink jet, so it is not tip top, but the quality is comparable to other more expensive ink jets that I have seen. It is also colour, but to get this you have to swap cartridges ...
...fact it is a very fiddly operation that often leaves you wanting to kick the thing! The speed is very slow, but that is fine if you do not do masses of printing, you can do something else whilst it prints, a little faster would have been better, but there you go. I suppose on draft quality you get 2-3 sheets of A4 a minute. But for the price the speed is what I expected. But the printer’s real downfall is paper-jams. It jams fairly often ... Read review

Advantages: Cheap, Not Bad quality
Disadvantages: Only one space for a chartrage

I bought this printer for 40 quid to use as a cheap back up printer, and so that I could save money on ink from my main printer. A word of advice to those setting up home networks do not let anyone else use your good printer, buy a cheap one and let them use that. The drivers came in on the CD and there was no problem installing them though for some bizzare reason it has set up on the computers in German. My housemates think that this is a cunning ...
...I am not that devious, and if I was going to do something like that I'd have set it up in Slovenian. Setting up the drivers though was easy as it is with all printers these days, and maping other machines on the home network to the printer is no problem either. The printer uses Hewlett Packard (HP51649a) colour cartrages and the equivelent Black and white chartrages. If you shop arround you can get these for 15 quid or less. It only has one slot ... Read review

Advantages: Small, Compact and Looks nice.
Disadvantages: Uses ink increadibily fast! Ink Expensive! VERY poor print quality!!

...pages. The printer cartridges are expensive too!! Overall, I wouldn't recommend you buy this, Go for an Epson, quality and reliability, if you can't afford an Epson, you can pick up a second hand one cheap off of auctions. Stay clear of the Apollo P-1200!! CHEAP & NASTY!!! ... Read review

Advantages: price
Disadvantages: colour quality

...dixens and they had these apollo printers for £49 when i inquired about them i was told they are made by hp this sounded like a good deal so i bought one, the picture quality is,nt that great when printing in colour but for printing letters and things off the web its great, also because it takes the hp ink cartridges they widely available if you are looking for a budget printer this is the one to buy, its easy to set up and the print quality is not ... Read review