Advantages: Good quality DeskJet, Small, Quiet, Reasonalby fast Disadvantages: Pricey replacement cartidges. Cannot compare to a laser printer
...side, new printer cartridges for HP printers are very expensive, costing upwards of £20 each in some places. However, cheaper refilled alternatives are available and some places nowadays refill your old cartridges for you if you take them in, so this is worth bearing in mind when you come to change them.
A word of warning here for people, I have found that the low ink indicator can be slightly misleading at times. If you think the cartridge cannot ... ...have found that the cartridges can be dragged out for a fair few more prints after I have had the warning, and I have heard similar things about Hewlett Packard printers from a number of different sources now as well.
The print quality can be varied with this printer, however most people will find the default settings adequate for most types of document. However, a high quality option is available and I would recommend using this only for very detailed ...
pumfster 08.06.2007
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Advantages: It shapes up as a fairly good workhorse & an excellent every day printer Disadvantages: Where`s my whip - faster, faster (its not slow, but we all want our printers faster, don`t we?)
...print.
Warnings given by HP and other service companies, about non-authentic ink cartridges voiding the warranty are entirely unreasonable. If the cartridges don’t work, simply swap them out. The print head mechanism is in the cartridge itself, so if that fails it is a fairly independent matter. This isn’t true of all printers, though; so don’t take it as read.
If you have a Palm Pilot, Windows CE Jordana or HP PhotoSmart digital camera, you can ... ...me this is of limited value, but I can imagine it being quite useful in some circumstances.
Hewlett Packard’s support for the printer is excellent, and if you have the Adobe Acrobat PDF reader, you will find all the manuals on-line here: http://www.hp.com/cposupport/manindex/hpdeskjet921701_eng_man.html including international versions and supplementary documentation. This is also the location for finding up-to-date, and Windows XP, drivers.
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RobAnt 29.07.2002 (02.08.2002)
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One of the high quality HP printers around, DeskJet 990cxi is an excellent A4 printing machine I would definitely recommend for either home or small businesses. The print quality is excellent, with crisp and realistic colours (provided the printer is correctly calibrated, of course…), and the process itself is rather fast and quiet. There is a choice of three different quality levels (I normally use draft quality for everyday printouts – ... ...a bit pricey, as the HP cartridges are definitely not the cheapest around; still, I found that the printer works equally well with refilled ones (despite the manufacturer’s warnings… it means less money for them, of course…).
Considering all the aspects presented here, I think that HP DeskJet 990cxi is very versatile and good value for money; if you are looking for an affordable good quality A4 printer, I highly recommend this ...
bgen 18.02.2004 (20.02.2004)
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...Featuring a special optical sensor, HP claims that this printer saves money in printing costs in the long run as it able to detect paper quality and adjust print quality automatically to match the print media.
The 990CXi has taken a slight deviation from what one usually expects of the DeskJet family in that it is an odd combination of cream plastic upper section and grey plastic lower section with an even stranger translucent silver window mounted ... ...the tray at the base of the machine (approximate capacity of 150 sheets of A4 paper) and ejected just above into the paper output tray. During printing, pages are held for a few seconds on a special bracket to allow the ink to dry before falling onto the paper tray as normal. There is also a slot provided for manually feeding envelopes - a function which works quite well on the 990CXi. In the very bottom left corner of the front of the unit is a ...
ben-lloyd 14.01.2005
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One of the high quality HP printers around, DeskJet 990cxi is an excellent A4 printing machine I would definitely recommend for either home or small businesses. The print quality is excellent, with crisp and realistic colours (provided the printer is correctly calibrated, of course…), and the process itself is rather fast and quiet. There is a choice of three different quality levels (I normally use draft quality for everyday printouts – ... ...a bit pricey, as the HP cartridges are definitely not the cheapest around; still, I found that the printer works equally well with refilled ones (despite the manufacturer’s warnings… it means less money for them, of course…).
Considering all the aspects presented here, I think that HP DeskJet 990cxi is very versatile and good value for money; if you are looking for an affordable good quality A4 printer, I highly recommend this ...
bgen 18.02.2004 (20.02.2004)
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Advantages: Quick, quiet, and effective. Awesome print quality.. Disadvantages: None found to date.
...ended up opting for the HP deskjet 990cxi. The deciding factor was the auto 2-sided printing feature, though all the other elements fell into place as well..definition, footprint, speed, noise levels, price (I paid about £240) etc.
What I hadn't realised was what a brilliant choice I had all but unwittingly made! Fast? Superman where are you now? Quiet? The British Library Reading Room couldn't complain. Quality of output? Well...I reckon that with ... ...96% that of photographic printing.
But the best thing of all...the one I hadn't though much about except that it might be quite a nice add-on...is the two-sided printing. I've been banging out proofs of leaflets of such high quality that clients have assumed that these are the finished item, and when I tell tham that I can make changes on the spot before they go to the print shop...well it's a damn good thing jaws don't make a mess when they drop! ...
stevethesleeve 12.10.2001 (18.10.2001)
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Advantages: superlative print quality, duplex unit Disadvantages: odd shape!
...my latest addition - the HP DeskJet 990Cxi would live up to expectations.
A few months ago I purchased a digital camera (having finally decided the quality started approaching a 'proper' camera) and have been amazed by the on-screen reproduction of my images; so when my friends and family asked for hardcopy, I set about looking for the right printer to do the job.
As luck would have it (so I thought), I was about to purchase a colour laser printer ... ...of inkjets. They recommended the HP 990.........
........so I looked at some sample printouts from a local dealer, and bought one.
Anyway to the review:
The printer is a high resolution (2400x 1200 max), 4 colour inkjet. There are two cartridges - one black and one multicolour - always the best choice, as black made from three other colours is washed-out or grey.
As standard, the printer supports duplexing - FANTASTIC for such a cheap printer ...
andygodber 16.02.2001
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Advantages: Good Print Quality, durable, fast, cheap now Disadvantages: quite expensive to run, no boderless printing
...mode and is great on hp photo paper for printing out photos and the like. It is very slow in best quality but when printing drafts and text based pages the paper flies through at about 17ppm as quoted. A module on the back allows double sided printing but this is not always useful as it takes a good 30 seconds extra per page and it is just as easy to turn the stack round and print alternate pages.
In 3 years I have had no mechanical faults with ... ...give the printer a good clean with a flash wip to remove ink which has coated the inside of the printer and which eventually gets on to printed pages if left to build up. Print cartridges however are very expensive at £26 for a 19ml colour and £50 for a 38ml although on ebay they are much less. The only real downside is the quite big bottom/top (depending on the orientation print margin and the lack of border less printing which can be quite annoying ...
fastfish7 23.02.2005
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Advantages: Fast, quiet, very very reliable, double sided printing, useful driver features Disadvantages: photo quality not the best, expensive ink cartridges, large
I have had this printer for a good number of years now and it has been a good workhorse for me. For office use I cant imagine a better inkjet, I havnt had to do a single bit of maintanence on the printer since I bought it, just change ink cartridges, it just keeps going and going.
Black and colour text, and clip art quality is spot on, still better than my much more modern photo printer. Ink cartridges last a long time and are easy to replace. The ... ...which saves alot of paper, and coupled with a driver features of fitting 2 pages onto 1 page, you can save even more paper by fitting 4 pages on 1 sheet of paper.
Where this printer does fall down in todays market is for photos. When I bought it the quality seemed good, but compared to modern photo printers it doesnt come close.
If you need a good printer for the office, or even for university or school you could do much worse than buy a second ...
thelight 30.12.2005
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Advantages: Fast, quiet, excellent quality, excellent features Disadvantages: None
Although I have used many in the past, this is the first inkjet I have actually bought, and I am mightily impressed and being a graphic design professional, I have demanded a lot from this product.
The printing iself, using drop-on-demand thermal technology, goes up to a resolution of 2400x1200 dpi and is of a very high quality. The PhotoRET technology for printing on glossy papers produces impecable output. The printer is *fast*, it's very quiet, ... ...in size, it looks stylish, and it automatically determines the type and alignment of any paper you put in.
Everything about this printer seems very well thought out, there's nothing annoying or irritating about it, and although the print cartridges come are a little expensive, they come with new print heads, which is always a big advantage.
Although not cheap, a very worthwhile buy, especially for professionals. ...
digitalburn 11.01.2001 (18.02.2001)
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Advantages: Fast, reliable, double sided printing Disadvantages: Doesn't make coffee
I've bought two of these for work. They are fast and reliable. Print quality is excellent too. Can't really fault them I'm afraid. Also, they get a great write up in PCPro. Have a look at the review on their website.
Another good feature is that it can also print double sided automatically. This is a great feature, it saves paper and helps keep documents smaller. If you want to print artwork I would go for something like an Epson Stylus Photo. These ...
Skeg 09.10.2001
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...I also found the printer to be very dependant on using HP paper. I could only get good colour accuracy for Photos if I used genuine HP colour ink and paper - both expensive.
So now I just use it for black and white for which it is excellent. ...
shricthism 20.11.2006
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Advantages: Fast, quiet, Cheap, Duplex, IR, Paper Type check Disadvantages: Cost of Ink Cartridges
...Red (e.g Through my humble HP Jornada 525 - How do I get Pocket Access for it and can I swap it for a HP Jornada 745 with a full keyboard ?)
- You Print intelligently by checking the type of paper I have inserted
- You even switch yourself on if I have forgotten when I press the print button on my PC !
But you don't remind me to Spell Check and you don't buy me Ink Cartridges
That is the only down side; the cost of the Ink Cartridges.
I could ...
Naresh 27.07.2001
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Advantages: Reliable, fast, good quality Disadvantages: Can't think of any
Used this printer now for 2 years or so,
and never let down by it. good quality picture,
it has a very useful print preview so it shows exactly what will be printed.
It also has a duplex module, so it saves you paper.
Of course the color is a bit boring, grey,
but who cares if the prints are colorful.
Use it for foto printing, and gives nice colors.
Been trying to fill up cartridges,
but not so successfull with that, probably
a waste. Another ...
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Advantages: I stopped counting after 100. Disadvantages: Maybe 1 - not really sure.
Well, what can I say? Probably the best thing I ever did for myself and my money (printerwise). I bought this printer.. hmm, actually I cannot remember when anymore. Anyway, it was many, many years ago... and still an excellent performer. I never thought this workhorse would last for ages despite the " whipping" and abuses it had gone thru! It just keeps on running no matter what. What a fine machine! I was at first apprehensive to purchase this ...
HCGJr 01.08.2007
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