I picked this laser printer up from PC World for about £100 and overall have been very impressed. The printer connects through a USB cable and set up is very simple for both Windows and Apple Mac computers.
There are a lot of positives with this printer. Firstly it offers very good value for money. It does everything the average home user will want for a very affordable price. The print quality is good and perfect for everyday printing of letters, etc. It can print on both sides of a page which is a particularly useful feature. This requires you to place the half printed copies back into the feeder rather than doing this automatically. This isn't really much of a problem, especially for the asking price. The printer also works well with transparencies. It comes with a ink cartridge which has lasted me at least a year of regular home use. There are a number of ink-saving printing modes which are very effective, although the lowest is quite poor quality. There isn't any way of monitoring ink levels either. The print speed is very good. The manufacturers claim of 19 pages a minute seems to be about right. Another advantage is the printers small footprint. It is much smaller than laser printers of old and fits easily on the corner of a desk.
On the negative side the printer it pretty noisy. Also, while the print quality is very good, it isn't exceptional. This is to be expected for the price and for everyday use this is certainly not a problem. However for printing jobs where print quality is particularly important you might be better off with a more expensive machine.
Overall I think this is a great buy. You get a very efficient easy to use printer for a great price. The ink cartridges have a decent lifetime and the quality is more than sufficient for almost all printing jobs.
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Jul 28th, 2008
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