Brilliant printer - Lousy software

Advantages: Superb quality printing and you get scanning, copying and faxing into the bargain
Disadvantages: Poorly designed management software

...'s the USB cable? No USB cable! It doesn't come with a USB cable. If you want a USB cable you're going to have to buy one separately. Fortunately I still have the one from the old printer. The rest of the install takes place from the computer. You slap the CD that comes with the printer in the disk drive and the software installation commences. You can now go and make a cup of tea because this is going to take some time. The software mainly consists of the "HP Solution Center" from which you can do most things that can also be done directly on the printer. It includes various tools like displaying an estimation of the amount of ink left in each cartridge. Part of the install includes doing some calibration of the printer and printing a sample photo, just to show you how good the printer is at this. In the box is a small packet containing...

grahamft 30.07.2008 · Read review
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Review of Hewlett-Packard C7280 All-in-One

laser printer

Advantages: laser printer
Disadvantages: bit dark on photos

...…………………………̷ 0;….................................................................. ................. Using a laser printer instead of a normal standard injet printer is great, there a lot faster than normal inkjet printers, there a lot more reliable and can carry on printing for ages without you worrying whether the things going to blow up or over heat or not. But most importantly of all, they have such better print quality, the ink stands out amongst the page which is what gives you that shiny ink and picture pages and it makes documents and pictures not only look great quality, but very professional too. This is why companies use them, so that their printed documents look a lot more professional, however all this does come at a price. These are known as office...

techno_man_37 04.04.2008 · Read review
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Review of Dell Laser Printer 1720dn

Give your printer a proper clean

Advantages: Quick and easy, cleans well
Disadvantages: None

... Fargo Printer Cleaning Kit The Fargo printer cleaning kit is designed for Fargo printers. Fargo printers are printers that are designed to print on plastic cards, using a ribbon. In most of these printers it is nearly impossible to get into the inner workings to clean manually, and by design they get dust inside which makes for poor quality prints and eventually, jamming of the cards. It is important therefore to periodically clean your printer using a Fargo cleaning kit. The whole procedure will take you less than ten minutes and will have your printer back to life again as good as new in no time at all. In the box In the box are the following: * 4 Printhead Cleaning Swabs - these are moistened with 99.99% isopropyl alcohol and should be used for cleaning the printhead inside the printer. * 10...

TheHairyGodmother 07.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of FARGO printer cleaning kit

A printer that really works!

Advantages: Quality of print, ease of use, compact, price
Disadvantages: Noisy, pricey cartridges, poor back up

...USB cable was in the box. I promptly paid for it, thanked her & went on my way. The HP 1215 printer/scanner/copier is around 26cm wide, 42cm long & 17cm high, the scanner is mounted at the top under a hinged lid & the printer below. It features two printer cartridges (B&W & colour) with an access flap for changing them. There are two cables supplied, the main power lead of ample length & a USB printer lead of similar length. It also comes with an instruction book, wall poster (well it makes a change from Kylie Minouge posters!!) & the software disc. Loading on the software onto Windows XP operating system took a little time but it worked first time after you print off the usual test pages. The quality of print & pictures is rather good with good strong colour reproduction. However I am convinced that HP put just enough ink in their...

ScottishWestie 21.01.2008 · Read review
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Review of HP PSC1215 Printer

Fine Printer Shame About The Software

Advantages: Reliability. Good quality results. Keen price
Disadvantages: Poor software that hinders the printer's potential

...is that it can print on such. As this is a 'speciality' of the printer, one would expect the printing software to be up to standard. It is very poor indeed ! Other printers like the Epson Photo R200 enable you to add text to your DVDs, in a circle around the perimeter and many other fine possibilities. The HP D5160 only allows you to add text in straight lines on a small portion that it specifies. In addition its picture and layout capabilities are extremely limited. This is very poor showing from HP, who have obviously knocked together some feeble software that severely limits its own machine's potential. The only way around this is to pay a further £15 or so and buy CD printing software separately. Personally I have uninstalled the HP software, which does nothing much more than the standard Windows Photo editing programs; then installed...

AdrianBB 16.05.2007 · Read review
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Review of HP PhotoSmart D5160

HP PSC 1215 All in one printer/scanner/photocopier

Advantages: Its 3 in 1 so you don't have loads of cables everywhere
Disadvantages: None

...About 2 years ago I decided it was time to update my printer and after scanning around for some bargains I decided that the HP PSC 1215 would be the one for me. It was just what I needed a printer/scanner and copier all in one with a free 3.1 MP camera chucked in to seal the deal. Style and Design ------------------------ The printer is a silvery-grey in colour and looks a bit like a breezeblock. The scanner copier is situated at the top and the paperfeeder is located at the front. There is also a LED display on the top with a group of buttons. Physical Specifications -------------------------------- Height - 6.68 in (16.97 cm) Width - 16.76 in (42.57 cm) Depth - 10.20 in (25.91 cm) Weight - 9.50 lbs (4.31 kg) Printing Quality --------------------- I find the quality quite good when printing out documents...

Kingkarliii 23.10.2006 · Read review
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Review of HP PSC1215 Printer

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

Dell photo printer 720

Advantages: Size, cheap
Disadvantages: Paper intake, expensive cartridges, slow

.../Magenta/Yellow). The manual Disk with drivers and Dell Picture Studio Software - Paint ShopTM Photo AlbumTM and a trial version of Paint ShopTM Pro 8. Cable to connect your printer to the electric network Unfortunately a USB-cable is not included and should be purchased separately. You better not buy this from the Dell website as they charge ridiculous prices for a simple cable that shouldn?t cost more than a few quid. Any computer store or big supermarket should have these USB cables in stock. I found all of the programs that were included completely useless and removed them from my computer after several days. I normally use Google?s free Picasa software to view and edit photo?s and was not really interested in the trial version of Paint shop pro 8. Some of you might find this software useful, but I just found it a waste of hdd space...

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

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

Great printer! Great Software! Great results!

Advantages: Simple and easy to use, comes with full instructions, Works great!, Great quality
Disadvantages: Can't think of any disadvantages at the moment!!

...dont know if it was a mistake but it was very anoying. But i luckily found a cable and it was very easy to set it up with the computer. This printer also has a special Photo Pinter. It comes with about 3 peices of photo paper and a special photo ink cartridge. Again, very easy to connect together. And also! it can print onto CDs and DVDs which is very useful. Not only does this printer work well but it looks great! and it feels very sturdy! The software included is very easy to set up and works like a charm. and the set up instructions for the printer is super aswell! I would highly recommend this to amyone looking for a printer...

monkeybrother 21.03.2008 · Read review
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Review of HP PhotoSmart D5160