Dell Photo Printer 540

Advantages: very fast little printer
Disadvantages: paper loads from top

...After my bulky old printer died I quickly needed a replacement. Dell had an online offer on this printer. At the time I bought it it was only £9.99 ! with free delivery, all the software cables etc and even the facility to reuse the box and send my old printer for recycling. Who could ask for more?! It was delivered in 2 days The printer is very easy to set up and the cartridges easy to change. Colour and black/white. You can order replacement cartridges direct from Dell. Photos print very well and the colours are true. The printer uses up very littles space and will fit nicely either under your pc desk or along side your pc. A fast inkjet printer and very quiet too. A good printer for use in the home. Well done Dell!... Read review

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Advantages: scans, copies, prints
Disadvantages: doesn't feed paper correctly, irritating, limiting software

...The paper-feed of this printer is terrible. I have to carefully hand-feed every sheet - time-wasting and annoying - and this after only a couple of weeks. I find the print quality is generally ok though and with a photo-ink cartridge inserted instead of black, photos look good. The software is restrictive. For example, if I use matt photo-quality paper the printer doesn't recognise it as "photo paper" and lowers the print quality. The only way I've found to override this is to fool the machine by holding glossy paper in the feed and withdrawing it at the last minute. What a pain in the ****! Also, you cannot print borderless via other graphics software, e.g. Photoshop, but have to enter, fiddle around and print with the Dell printer software. Also a pain.... Read review

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Advantages: Cheap to buy, good quality copys
Disadvantages: High cost refills, tacky plastic

...i have had my dell 720 for 2 months now. The main problem is that the ink costs alot of money. i dont use the printer that often and i have already had to buy another black ink caterage becasue it has run out Another bad point wih this printer is that you cannot put over 15 pieces of paper ready to print becasue if you do the printer starts taking multiple pages through which messes up the copying. On high quality and using photo paper you wouldnt be able to tell that it isnt a real photo. it is very good quality. dont get me wrong this is a very good printer if you dont care about money. its super quality and reliable when only a few pages loaded to print. It is a very easy printer to install. it takes around 2 minutes and it is ready to use. just connect the us cable and put the cd in and it will auto install The instuction... Read review

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