Hi I'm Dave, don't expect loads of facts and figures in my reviews, you can get them anywhere. Expec...
Hi I'm Dave, don't expect loads of facts and figures in my reviews, you can get them anywhere. Expect simple explanations of my experiences with products, nothing more, nothing less.
Member since:01.06.2003
Reviews:15
I brought this to replace a printer and scanner, and try to tidy up my desktop a bit. I looked at lots of all in one printer / scanners, and found this to have the best balance of printing speed, scanning resolution and print quality. At the price of £75 from the internet, it's a bargain to. Showing exactly why the internet is such a good tool - I couldn't find this at less than 100 at the big three (Comet , Currys and PC World)
Setting the actual thing up was a breeze until..... Fitting the print cartridges is a fiddly business, I don't have sausage fingers, but for me it was very tricky, trying to be careful not to push to hard etc. I found the colour cartridge was being blocked from being inserted by the position of the print carriage. Eventually I pushed it into place, but it would appear that this pushed the print carriage over a small "hook" which meant that when it tried to align the printer heads, the carriage couldn't move. It was on the verge of being sent back as a worthless piece of $%^& when I spotted what had happened, and managed to budge the carriage back to where it was supposed to be. A very bad design flaw, as I now have a suspicion it will happen each time I put in a new colour cartridge. Ho Hum, anyway it now works fine. I have printed colour photos, this is made even easier by a handy little paper holder that tucks away into the side, and both colour and black and white sheets. All done very quickly and with superb quality. The controls are a piece of cake, the small screen being surprisingly useful. If you are the sort who will print straight from a memory card, then there is plenty of control available without going through a picture editing program. Bundled with the system is a picture editing program called photosmart, reasonable, but nothing like plenty of standalone programs out there. It's an attractive little thing, which takes up very little desk top space. It's easy to use, once set up, and appears to do everything well. At the cost of £75 I am delighted with this printer / scanner / copier.
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Dec 17th, 2006
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