Advantages: Size, cheap Disadvantages: Paper intake, expensive cartridges, slow
I bought this Dell printer several months ago when my old printer broke down. I have never really needed to print much (only the occasional essay or B-day card), so I decided to go for this cheap Dell 720 photo printer. I looked for the cheapest printer I could find and I believe this one cost between £30-35 on the Dell website. I have just checked on the website and I don’t think they even sell this version anymore. A newer version the ‘Dell 725’ ... ...that Dell sells in the UK (at £35).
I ordered the printer on the website and everything from payment to delivery went very smooth (as you might expect from such a big company). IN THE BOX:
The Dell photo printer 720
2 Inkcartridges: 1 Black Standard Capacity Cartridge and 1 Tri- color Standard Capacity Cartridge (Cyan/Magenta/Yellow).
The manual
Disk with drivers and Dell Picture Studio Software - Paint ShopTM Photo AlbumTM and a trial version ...
Theman000 30.04.2007
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Advantages: Cheap and cheerful Disadvantages: Hard to find cartridges, and expensive
...instruction manual is like most dell information, detailed and easy to follow with lots of pictures and easy to follow diagrams. It includes setting up, adding cartridges, dell customer support and all the usual stuff.
-Style- Its not one of the most attractive things in the world, it's a kind of greyish colour with black paper feed trays and catch tray. The sides and back are also black. There is a big dell badge on the front and set to the side ... ...platform.
-Paper feed-
It has an adjustable paper feed tray with A4 paper being the biggest size. To adjust it you just have to pull the little grey tab along, so easy to do. The only problem I have came across is if you have too much paper it can be hard to get it all in.
-Cartridges-
There are two cartridges needed for this printer, a Black and a coloured cartridge. They are about an inch wide and one and a half inches high. You will receive ...
ILIKEMONEY 24.02.2007
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Advantages: A good cheap printer £9.99 Disadvantages: Not the best photo quality, £39 for cartridges
...was this price was that Dell were celebrating their Birthday.
Ordering
The process of ordering was simple through Dells website using my credit card. To get the printer for £9.99 the USB cable had to be removed from the order, I think they were charging something in the order of a tenner for that, I managed to pick one up from Maplins for £2. I promptly recieved an 'e' mail confirming the order.
Delivery
After a couple of days I recieved an 'e' ... ...1/5 of the price that Dell wanted to charge it was time to set up the printer. Following the instructions it was a simple case of loading the CD and installing the software, it is important to do this before plugging in the printer. There is a calibration process that you are taken through to make sure prints are optimum.
Quality
Printing quality is reasonable but photographs are a little blurred. I haven't yet used it on photographic paper but ...
gillianodgers 28.12.2004
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...printer because I own a Dell Inspiron Laptop and I reckoned that a printer from the same brand would ensure easy compatability. I urchased this little printer a bit under a year ago second hand on Ebay, from a guy who'd used it to print out his thesis.
There was no instruction manual at all. I'd have liked one, although installation was straightforward with a CD Rom. You really need a CD Rom drive to install it. (If your computer has only a floppy ... ...don't buy your cartridges from Dell or Lexmark. They are horrendously expensive. It's cheaper to buy unbranded cartridges from one of the online mailorder companies specialising in catridges. That's expensive enough - around £18 for a black toner cartridge, and even more for a colour one. The photo quality is fine, at least for my needs. I'm oldfashioned and prefer 'real' photos for my album, but I sometimes print out something from the internet ...
queen_rain 25.10.2005
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Advantages: Cheap and cheerful Disadvantages: Hard to find cartridges, and expensive
...instruction manual is like most dell information, detailed and easy to follow with lots of pictures and easy to follow diagrams. It includes setting up, adding cartridges, dell customer support and all the usual stuff.
-Style- Its not one of the most attractive things in the world, it's a kind of greyish colour with black paper feed trays and catch tray. The sides and back are also black. There is a big dell badge on the front and set to the side ... ...platform.
-Paper feed-
It has an adjustable paper feed tray with A4 paper being the biggest size. To adjust it you just have to pull the little grey tab along, so easy to do. The only problem I have came across is if you have too much paper it can be hard to get it all in.
-Cartridges-
There are two cartridges needed for this printer, a Black and a coloured cartridge. They are about an inch wide and one and a half inches high. You will receive ...
ILIKEMONEY 24.02.2007
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I bought my dell printer when my other printer died and thought wow what a bargain. I found it on the dell website for just £9.99 excellent i thought. But then when you add the delivery and vat and the fact that i had to buy the connection cable seperatly i was beginning to have my doubts. but it was still a cheap printer.
Then i realised why this printer was so cheap. You get two trial cartridges with it one black one colour. Fair enough i thought ... ...to get them from is dell themselves and they cost £22.33 plus vat and shipping. And they do not make an alternative to these in any cheap form.
This must be were dell make there money . They practically give away the printers to make the money on the cartridges. Well this is my opinion anyway and if im wrong could someone please tell me were i can get cartridges from that are cheaper.. Thank you
Overall the printer is a nice little printer the ...
luseantom 25.02.2005
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Advantages: inexspensive Disadvantages: ink a little expensive
...up for about £30 from dell or alternitively you can have a look on ebay and if your lucky you may pick one up for a tenner.
If you want an exceptional quality low price printer which blows away any other printers of this price range then i highly recommend this one.
Hope you have found this helpful and i look forward to reading your comments.
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hughboy 05.01.2006 (07.01.2006)
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Advantages: Prints VERY fast!! With black and white writing! Disadvantages: Quite hard to find out how much ink is left
This is a printer that came free with my computer so now I have two printers! This one I mostly use for my photos as I think for a cheap printer like that is good quality!
Some people say that the ink is expensive but some people don't look in the right places! Because if you get the stores make you can get them quite cheap and you can also just get refill there pretty easy to use. My favorite part about this printer is that it prints fairly fast ... ...ROUGHLY 7 SECONDS!!!
And it is also fairly easy to remove cartages and replace cartages by simple lifting up the little door!!
Overall I think this printer is a very decent printer for the amount of money you can get it for. I would recommend this printer to basically anyone but it may not be good for printing lots and lots of photos as it runs out fairly quick.
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cbgordon2 06.04.2006
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Advantages: very fast little printer Disadvantages: paper loads from top
...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 ...
Witchy 14.12.2004
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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 ... ...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 manual is also very ood if you are a first time printer buyer
One last point is that it takes about average ...
looney_acorn 15.02.2006
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This worked fine with my old xp system but now I have Windows Vista it is incompatible so I will have to bin it.
Don't by Dell 720 if you have Vista - it just won't work
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Hepz 20.11.2008
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