Microboards DX-2 Disc Publisher

Advantages: "works" with Mac and Windows
Disadvantages: Too many to list.

...buying a 10-disc duplexer and printing separately. If you're using this just for printing, it still loads the disk into the cd-burner before feeding it into the printer, so again, it is VERY slow > Reliabiliy.... let's not even go there... in a batch of 40 discs, it stops about 3 or 4 times with "no discs in loader" error... clicking retry magically makes it work... (using Taiyo Yuden media bought from Microboards authorised retailers) >Manuals... inexistent! After days of bugging their support, a PDF was emailed over... > Support - rude and unhelpful most of the time. Takes days to get anything out of them In short? Stay well clear from this product!... Read review

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Advantages: Looks nice, software is well appointed.
Disadvantages: Unreliable, expensive re-badged cartridges, noisy

...Very poor experience over the last 12 months with the DX-1. Never reached 48 speed CD burn, usually between 16-24x speed. The printer typically lost register on every other disc and in order to use the MB branded rather than HP ink cartridges there's a barcode on each cartridge that increases the cost from £30 to £50. Not once did this unit burn 100 discs unattended, it typically varied from 4 to 15 discs, requiring manual intervention due to: a) 'invalid ink cartridge' even though I religiously (stupidly?) stuck with the branded carts. b) sync cache error very frequent burn fault. c) discs misfed in the drive tray, requiring the stack to be removed. d) print transport jumping requiring a restart of the unit. In spite of running this unit on many different workstations, and with many different media types it never failed... Read review

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Advantages: three in one printer, scanner and copier
Disadvantages: genuine ink cartridges last no time at all

...It is sunday morning and i must be bored if all i can do is right a review on this printer, well, here goes, i purchased this printer after my last one went out the window because it was not working right, i was wary about buying a 3 in 1 printer scanner and copier, but once installed (very easy to do (load the disc follow the instructions and hey presto)). PRINTER As a printer it is far superior to the previous one i had, the quality of the print is awesome, and the speed of print is also good, with up to 20 PPM's for black and white print and 19 for colour i found this very quick for a home ink jet printer SCANNER as a scanner i found this not as good as my HP scanner, but still very quick and the quality is good, for just home use this would be sufficient for general day to day use and nothing more, for professional use... Read review

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