Dell 725 color printer

Advantages: fast
Disadvantages: does not print in true black ink color

...This printer has NEVER printed in true (or even close...) black "color". Contacting Dell support, I was told "your printer is no longer under warranty", so they would not even offer assistance. I never used it much (it was bundled with the laptop), so now when I needed it for a project, it is very disappointing that it does not work. I have downloaded and installed the "latest" driver (from 2006!) and that still did not help. I re-ran the printers test pattern and head cleaner, and no black ever printed. The test pattern is blue, pink, yellow and brownish-green. Given other's comments here about the black being a greenish-grey, I would never buy another single-cartridge printer again. I would definitely suggest you purchase a printer that has a dedicated black cartridge. Fast speed accounts for nothing if the colors are screwy!...

The2Woots 31.01.2009 · Read review
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Review of Dell Color Printer 725

Colourful Printer

Advantages: Quality results in colour, support (when you get hold of them)
Disadvantages: Loud when in use, a bit bulky

...seconds to 2 minutes depending if it starts its self maintenance and checks for simple problems (like paper jams). Obviously, it takes considerably shorter time to print when it has warmed up and waiting for jobs. The specification say it prints at 12 pages a minute (colour or black and white), which I agree, though this can seem long compared to newer printers. This printer produces beautiful prints in colour, though not as good as photographic ink jets you can get these days ? but that isn?t the point of this printer, is it? It?s for SOHO (Small Office/Home Office) use, printing jobs like letters, newsletters, and flyers etc, not photographs ? but saying that ? the printer drivers have a setting to tell the printer the type of paper to use. On plain paper, when I print photographs from our digital camera the output is a lot better than you...

orrin31 10.08.2007 · Read review
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Dell Color Printer 725

Advantages: Cheap, Easy to use, relatively fast
Disadvantages: Only takes Colour Cartridges, not a viable option for regular printing

...I got the printer bundled in free with a Laptop, and its very bare bones. My biggest problem with it is that it only takes colour cartridges. This means to produce black ink documents, usually what most people print out, it mixes 2 colours to produce a black effect. It never quite manages it and your prints will look sort of greeny grey. Also, at £15 a cartridge from Dell, it seems quite alot to pay. The printer has a reasonable speed for home use and is easy to use, although the Dell software is quite intrusive when printing and sometimes I wish it would go away. The product is suited for light home use, although due to the fact that there is no single black ink cartridge there are much better printers out there for arguably a more reasonable price. I would recommend the printer to anyone who uses a printer on a rare occasion and does...

Biggsl02 22.06.2007 · Read review
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Review of Dell Color Printer 725

Fast colour printer

Advantages: Great Quality
Disadvantages: NOT WITH VISTA

...I am writing a review on the hp 1600 printer. I use this colour printer regulary in my work, and i have found it to be excellent.Its a business printer so i am not sure what it cost - but looking online i would estimate: £140 from the HP Website What it looks like: It sits quite upright but with a gently curved front panel and a completely flat top. Coloured in beige, light and slate grey, the printer has a minimal control panel of just four buttons, two LED indicators and a 16-character LCD display. The display is hard to read, as it's partly in the shadow of its surround and, our pet gripe, could dearly use a backlight. On the front there is the HP Logo, and the printer name below HP Laserjet 1600 - the paper goes in at the tray in the bottom, and comes out the top.The function buttons are along the top. The printer...

lesleyanne18 27.03.2008 · Read review
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Review of HP Color LaserJet 1600

Good quality bargian printer

Advantages: Cheap, reliable and works with Windows Vista
Disadvantages: Expensive ink if brought direct from Dell

...is resolved by cleaning the print heads. The biggest the that most people think about when buying a printer is the cost of replacing the ink when it's run out. And I do have to say, when buying your top up ink from Dell, it can get a little pricy. I have found a way around this however. Inktek do a Ink refill kit for this printer, it costs about £8, rather than £30 for a new cartridge you can get 1 bottle of each colour or 3 of the same, it comes with instructions and tools etc. The colour that gets used the fastest is the blue, this is due to printing black text. If you are going to attemp to refil your cartridge the computer will continue to tell you that you are out of ink, this is because the cartridge comes with a little chip in it to tell the printer how much ink is left. This does mean that you sometimes have to guess how much...

laurapipe01 09.08.2007 · Read review
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Review of Dell Color Printer 725

THIS IS A GREAT PRINTER

Advantages: Cheap
Disadvantages: slow to print

...if not your printed page will crumple up. Now this printer connects to your PC by USB cable and the software that comes with the printer was so easy to load up, one tip remove the software from your old printer first as the mistake I made was to connect the printer first before installing the software and the computer kept telling me there was no printer available. Anyway after getting over that hurdle it was plain sailing from then on in. I cant begin to tell you how pleased I am with this printer, it is a smart printer to look at and is not too bulky and it is not as noisy as my previous printer. It is not a quick printer thought as it only prints 9 ppm in black and white or 5 ppm in colour. Like my previous Lexmark printer it can take two cartridges one colour and one black and white but if you don't want to have two then it...

happygoluckygirl 18.10.2005 · Read review
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Review of Lexmark Color JetPrinter Z23e

Do Epson manufacture the best colour printers?

Advantages: Capable of very good quality prints
Disadvantages: Temperamental paper feeder & colour cartridges!

...Unlike many of my other reviews the motivation behind this review stands as a warning rather than a recommendation. However, in the name of balance I will tell you about the functions of the printer before I give you the warning!!!! As an architect in the modern day, we as an industry and definitely within the practice I work within rely heavily upon printers. Requiring that they are simply reliable, cheap to run and capable of high quality prints often to large formats. This was exactly the promise that the Epson Colour Stylus 1520 (C11C211061) gave us when we were searching for a new large format inkjet printer. Capable of printing to a resolution of 1440dpi x 720dpi to a maximum A2 size this was one of the most competitively priced models we found. Careful don?t order the Wrong Model!!! Strangely Epson have chosen to...

Lush1 12.01.2005 · Read review
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Review of Epson Stylus Color 1520

Dell photo printer 720

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? has replaced the 720 and is now the cheapest model 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...

Theman000 30.04.2007 · Read review
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Review of Dell Colour Printer 720**- Affordable Inkjet Solution

Cheap Compact Colour Printer

Advantages: Cheap, reliable, easy to use, suitable for PC and Mac.
Disadvantages: USB cable not supplied, expensive ink cartridges.

..., on reflection, if you work at home, it's probably the only "person" you may hear all day so it isn't that unwelcome. (Sad or what?) Running Costs = The initial outlay, beyond the printer itself, will be a USB cable - the printer comes with a power cable and software. It seems to accept most types of paper, so you may please yourself as to what weight you choose to use. You will probably find that your printer comes with a free cartridge but you should probably buy a couple yourself; you must get both black and colour cartridges. Annoyingly enough, you can't seem to get generic compatible cartridges, so you must shell out for Lexmark cartridges which are shockingly expensive. As I said before, the cost of ink cartridges wasn't an issue for us but you may want to think carefully about buying cartridges which are almost as...

ariadne 21.12.2003 · Read review
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Review of Lexmark Z 25 Color Jetprinter

Colour LJ2605 printer

Advantages: Looks good and reasonable quality
Disadvantages: Running costs

...The HP Colour LaserJet 2605 is a good little printer; the colour printing is good quality and fast. It is the ideal home or small office printer, the paper tray on the LJ2605 is small so required topping up constantly with paper. The LJ2605 is easy to use and the instructions on the led screen are simple and easy to follow, the screen is a little on the small side though. You should be able to pick this printer up for less than £300. 00 Toner is easy to source as most suppliers stock it and are retailing for around £50.00 each??. and this is the main drawback with this machine, the toner packs are quite small so you don't get much for your money and to replace all four colours is going to cost almost £200.00. Being an Hewlett Packard makes it easy to maintain, parts for this printer are reasonable priced and readily available...

netgekko 17.05.2008 · Read review
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Review of HP Color LaserJet 2605