The 5550 has excellent print quality and its quick. It should be, because it is sold as a high duty-cycle commercial machine suitable for networking etc. But it cannot handle glossy or thick stock in the lower paper trays, plus they have no availability for custom sizes in them either. So, you can have up to 3, 500 sheet paper trays, but you can only load them with plain A4 stock. The duplexer suffers the in the same way. The practical result of this is numerous trips to load the, rather flimsy, multi-media tray that holds only a maximum of 100 sheets. Then, if you want your beautiful photo-quality glossy brochure printed on both sides, you have to return to the printer, turn the paper over and start again. All in all a potentially great machine that suffers from poor design and lack of flexibility. Sadder still, this is a problem that appears to be suffered by the whole range
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Welcome to Ciao. A good start but if you feel you would like to add or expand on the details in the review at any time in the future you can do this by pressing the edit link in the centre at the top of your review as you read it. . Fionaxx
bonsi6337 17.05.2008 11:51
hi there, and welcome! sorry for the low rating but i feel that your review needs a bit more information - it might help you to read other reviews to see what gets the higher ratings. if you decide to add to your review, please let me know and i will happily take another look at it for you.
netgekko 16.05.2008 14:57
good start well done... wait till you have to get somone to repair this printer, then you'll be really unhapy. Iain
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