I think I've found the best multifunction inkjet printer and it's cheap, too | The Coffeehouse

YearOfTheLinuxDesktop
Seven of Niner! Resistance is Futile!

this post is a follow-up of all I want for dinner is a multifunction printer and honey, I shrunk the printer

after days of web searches, after several gallons of ink thrown against epson, canon and hp support employees I think I've found it.

flatbed scanner with ADF (can load up to 50 sheets of paper all by itself) and both twain and WIA drivers
35ppm black print speed
34ppm color print speed
duplex printing accessory included
memory card reader
ethernet, usb2, pictbridge connections
replaceable printer heads
fast color/bw fax with distinctive ring detection that can store up to 125 pages in memory
big officejet cartridges that can print up to 850 pages (10$ each) and supports xl cartridges (20$ each) that can print up to 2500 pages in bw and 1600 in color. the producer claims that the cost per page is 50% less than a laser printer.
can print photos directly from your camera and memory cards and fix them too

its price is 300$ but you can find it for 150-200$ after rebates

it's the.....

fantastic.....

HP officejet L7590!

it was reviewed by trusted reviews and the review seems quite positive

all we need now is somebody to buy that printer and tell us if it's good or not Tongue Out

who wants to sacrifice for the sake of printing science? Perplexed

jamie

i think i might

SaraJoRedux
GirlDeveloper.com

did you see anything in a dot matrix?

wisemx
Live it

Have you seen the prices on some of these old Dot matrix printers?
Some of them are almost $2000 now because they are still needed.
Multi page contract transfer paper for example.

I recently got a few from CDW for a large construction company here, could not believe the prices.

figuerres
???

SaraJoRedux wrote:
did you see anything in a dot matrix?

ever have to work around a 136 column line impact printer??

when I did comunity college lab aid work they had one....

sounded like a big rambo 50 cal going off...

BBBBBBBaaaaaMMM BBBBaaaaaMMMM ...... loud as heck!

it spit out pages faster than you know where.... H311 Big Smile

LaBomba
Summer

You usually seem to know what you are talking about...you've got me interested. Btw what do you do? Are you an IT guy?

phreaks

YearOfTheLinuxDesktop wrote:
this post is a follow-up of all I want for dinner is a multifunction printer and honey, I shrunk the printer

after days of web searches, after several gallons of ink thrown against epson, canon and hp support employees I think I've found it.

flatbed scanner with ADF (can load up to 50 sheets of paper all by itself) and both twain and WIA drivers
35ppm black print speed
34ppm color print speed
duplex printing accessory included
memory card reader
ethernet, usb2, pictbridge connections
replaceable printer heads
fast color/bw fax with distinctive ring detection that can store up to 125 pages in memory
big officejet cartridges that can print up to 850 pages (10$ each) and supports xl cartridges (20$ each) that can print up to 2500 pages in bw and 1600 in color. the producer claims that the cost per page is 50% less than a laser printer.
can print photos directly from your camera and memory cards and fix them too

its price is 300$ but you can find it for 150-200$ after rebates

it's the.....

fantastic.....

HP officejet L7590!

it was reviewed by trusted reviews and the review seems quite positive

all we need now is somebody to buy that printer and tell us if it's good or not

who wants to sacrifice for the sake of printing science?

Does anyone know if this thing has wireless?

Can I get it in green?

Harlequin
http://twitter.com/TrueHarlequin

I like my printer better, uses less ink and paper.

1) Right-click file > Send to Bluetooth > TabletPC
2) Right-click file on TabletPC > Print to OneNote
3) Open OneNote, file is in there in a new note.

Cool

jamie

found it at staples - its $299 here

"System Requirements: Windows 2000; Windows XP Home; Windows XP Professional; Windows XP Professional x64; Windows Vista(R); Mac OS X v 10.3.9 or higher; With Windows Vista(R), some features may not be available."

edit: YOTLD - do you know if it does borderless printing (no margins?)

phreaks

jamie wrote:
found it at staples - its $299 here

"System Requirements: Windows 2000; Windows XP Home; Windows XP Professional; Windows XP Professional x64; Windows Vista(R); Mac OS X v 10.3.9 or higher; With Windows Vista(R), some features may not be available."

edit: YOTLD - do you know if it does borderless printing (no margins?)

Wireless?

jamie

not sure.

it does do borderless printing - and double sided

plus my old scanner doesnt work (drivers)

very tempting ..gonna talk to tory about it

YearOfTheLinuxDesktop
Seven of Niner! Resistance is Futile!

LaBomba wrote:
You usually seem to know what you are talking about...you've got me interested. Btw what do you do? Are you an IT guy?

I'm a software engineer but I'm working as a ITC consultant

phreaks wrote:

Does anyone know if this thing has wireless?

no, you can buy the wi-fi module but wi-fi networking with hp printers is known to be a real mess. you'd better connect it to an access point and make sure the wi-fi connection is 100% reliable

phreaks wrote:

Can I get it in green?

I think it's black only

jamie wrote:
found it at staples - its $299 here

did you look at some price comparison websites? I looked on amazon and the lowest price is 187$

jamie wrote:

"System Requirements: Windows 2000; Windows XP Home; Windows XP Professional; Windows XP Professional x64; Windows Vista(R); Mac OS X v 10.3.9 or higher; With Windows Vista(R), some features may not be available."

I didn't read about any feature missing on vista however I read about full vista 32bit and 64bit (the printer is designed for vista).

jamie wrote:

edit: YOTLD - do you know if it does borderless printing (no margins?)

yes it does

jamie wrote:
not sure.

it does do borderless printing - and double sided

plus my old scanner doesnt work (drivers)

you can install most xp scanner drivers on vista you just have to change your scanning application.

jamie wrote:
very tempting ..gonna talk to tory about it

there are also the latest canon PIXMA printers that have double-sided ADF (can scan both sides of each sheet), wi-fi and better photo quality however their ink is more expensive (smaller cartridges) and the double-sided printing sucks because the printer does blacks using the color cartridges when double-sided printing is selected. if you print mostly photos you'd better go check some print samples in computer shops of hp officejets of the same series and canon PIXMA printers. you can order print samples online too.

jamie

printing on both sides is the main draw for me - plus bigger cartridges - so i still like the hp you picked over canon

YearOfTheLinuxDesktop
Seven of Niner! Resistance is Futile!

I just tried printing some pages with a l7680 that belongs to the same officejet pro series and the print is very fast and looks very good (I didn't try photos because I didn't have glossy paper around): printing with draft quality is excellent, no white lines or artifacts like some other printers I've tried, the page is just brigther and slightly less detailed than with normal quality. the pages are also turned quickly (immediately with the draft print quality) without long waits for the ink to dry.

the printer I tried had a continuous ink system that I believe is compatible with the l7590 too that can save a lot of money and time because you just have to pour some ink in the external tanks once in a while

the only negative things I've noticed are that it's really huge and the startup is very slow and can take minutes but it seems to have a power saving mechanism that allows you to keep the printer always turned on.

Ion Todirel
buuu

I don't know... inkjet? I always tought laser printers are cheaper to mainten

YearOfTheLinuxDesktop
Seven of Niner! Resistance is Futile!

Ion Todirel wrote:
I don't know... inkjet? I always tought laser printers are cheaper to mainten

yes if you have an office and print lot of paper. but this printer for home is perfect because it's very cheap, cheaper than other home printers like the hp c7280 and has very large and cheap cartridges too.

update 2: it looks the l7590 specs were wrong. the ADF of this printer, like the ADF on latest canon PIXMAs can also scan both sides of each page! now there are virtually no reasons to chose a canon but the better (or not?) photo quality.

staceyw
Before C# there was darkness...

YearOfTheLinuxDesktop wrote:

Ion Todirel wrote: I don't know... inkjet? I always tought laser printers are cheaper to mainten

yes if you have an office and print lot of paper. but this printer for home is perfect because it's very cheap, cheaper than other home printers like the hp c7280 and has very large and cheap cartridges too.

update 2: it looks the l7590 specs were wrong. the ADF of this printer, like the ADF on latest canon PIXMAs can also scan both sides of each page! now there are virtually no reasons to chose a canon but the better (or not?) photo quality.

Looks like a good one. If drivers are good, sounds like a winner.

PaoloM
Hypermediocrity

I just bought a Canon Pixma MX310. Scanning works nicely, I still have to test the ADF with multiple docs, printing is fast but it looks always in draft mode.

Pressing the Copy/Fax or Scan big buttons doesn't actually do anything but beep at me. Maybe I should take a look at the manual, but I refuse in principle to install any additional software on my machine; Vista found all the drivers, that should be enough.

This is my first multifunction printer and only my second one overall, I'm not very experienced, as I was always able to live without printing. And an ADF scanner is very expensive, so Pixma it is.

More to follow... Smiley

staceyw
Before C# there was darkness...

PaoloM wrote:

I just bought a Canon Pixma MX310. Scanning works nicely, I still have to test the ADF with multiple docs, printing is fast but it looks always in draft mode.

Pressing the Copy/Fax or Scan big buttons doesn't actually do anything but beep at me. Maybe I should take a look at the manual, but I refuse in principle to install any additional software on my machine; Vista found all the drivers, that should be enough.

This is my first multifunction printer and only my second one overall, I'm not very experienced, as I was always able to live without printing. And an ADF scanner is very expensive, so Pixma it is.

More to follow...

I have a Pixma MP160. Some cheapy that came with a computer I bought year ago. I thought I would never use it. Turns out, it has been most reliable inkjet printer I have owned. The HPs and Epsons always seemed to gum up after lags in usage and never work right even after ink change. This thing just works. Anyone tried those Kodaks with the new ink that was pushed on the Apprentice some months ago? Last time I saw Ads from them.