Compaq SMART 431

Advantages: Good Print Quality,Fast speed,affordable
Disadvantages: small capacity cartridges,Cost of cartridges

...Hi Everyone The HP PhotoSmart printer had a very good print quality as i personally use it.It easy to use,fast speed of printing.HAs good exterior looks.The black and White documents get printed fast with excellent quality.The coloured documents also prints with execellent quality and with a comparable good speed than the previous HP printers. The Disadvantage of this is only the cartridges capacity and its cost.The cartridge capacity is small and it should be used frequently so that the cartridges doesnot get dry. But if you want quality and speed i would definitely recommend this product to you. You will just need to keep changing the cartridges or refill them properly to get the quality printing. I have been using the HP printers since quite a long time.I have used hp deskjet 670cprinter also and now comparing that and this one... Read review

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Advantages: Excellent quick printing, photos just add icing on the cake
Disadvantages: Paper jams for drafts

...This is a printer with class, and it produces photos to boot as well. It can literally print any photos from a vast array of media cards (note the no of slots) or direct from camera using pict-bridge. The quality of the photos is reasonable with normal colour and black catridge, but becomes professional when using a photo cartridge coupled with photo paper. Generally you cannot fault its ability to reproduce office documents in sharp clarity and relatively quick speed (depending on settings). But beware of using draft prints as this for some reason causes the printer to jam or crumple through the process. Ink catridges suprisingly outlast any other inkjet I have owned. HP 56, 57, 58 are used in this machine.... Read review

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Advantages: Full fill your need of capability
Disadvantages: Old windows won't work

...I have an advanced on OS installation specially MS Windows Product. So far I know, I'been trying for at least a dozen to trying installing both windows 98 and ME on this notebook but it all ending with fail. You'll do have a problem while installing windows 2000. The Compaq did not give you a driver support for this version of windows. Otherwise when you satisfied with the XP version, you already have all the mobile need for your office works. While the other vendor didn't give you no more PS2 connection, compaq were smart enough to give you it. But for me it still bother me that I can't make my notebook work on windows ME environment which my accounting program are running. I hope Compaq are wisely test this notebook again and even more creating a patch software for this product so it can run Windows ME and the predecessor... Read review

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