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2006-12-28 08:18:19 · 7 answers · asked by Danigirl 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Printers
Like most of these people have mentioned, HP will give you the best photo at the lowest price. One person answered that HP ink is very expensive. This simply is not true. HP photo printers will give you the lowest cost per photo than any other brand. For an example:
A set of ink for a 6-cartridge Epson photo printer is almost $100. (6 x $15). After you purchase photo paper, your cost will be around 55 cents per photo.
A set of ink for a 6-cartridge HP photo printer is $36 and includes 150 sheets of 4x6 photo paper. This will give you a cost of 24 cents per photo.
An example of an HP printer that does photos, text, scans, and copies is the HP Photosmart C5180. I own this printer and also bought one for my mother. Photos are great, it's prints 30 pages per minute, and scans and copies really nicely. It is also very easy to use. I reccommend looking into this printer. I have included two links. The first link is on hp.com which will tell you a little bit about the printer. The second link is a review on this printer by a user.
2006-12-28 16:31:15 · answer #1 · answered by johnusmaximus1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
HP is the best choice for printers anybody that tells you differently shouldn't be using technology. Anyone that starts taking about the cost of ink being expensive is using the old old 15,45,23,78 cartridges. The price of ink cartridges is directly related to the amount of ink that that the cartridges hold. HP printer are the best printers out there and have been given an A/A+ ranking in reliability and quality for 14 consecutive years by PC Magazine. Your probably going to want a HP Photosmart AIO and your probably going to want to look at the 3210 and the 3310, but there are many others that you will want to look at as well.
As far as other manufactuers; Epsons have great print quality, but there reliability is poor, epsons have many problems that they don't ever get rid of, such as the built in print heads that are always getting clogged and then you need a new machine. Canon, there cartridges don't have enough ink in them to ever decide if you like the printer or not, you'll be spending alot of time at the store getting new ones. Brother, low quality machines which don't let you use the machine at all when one cartridge gets below so low, so you'll be throwing away cartridges with ink left in them.
Get HP, I have 6 HPs and have loved them, I had epson a while back and will never go with them again. A know people who have gotten Lexmark printers as presents and they didn't like them so they never bought ink for it after the starter cartridges ran out. Dells are Lexmarks so you already know how I feel on those. I might not mind canon if there cartridges were bigger.
2006-12-28 23:42:01 · answer #2 · answered by gdearth 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would not purchase anything from HP because the cost of ownership is to high. The replacement ink cartridges would cost you more then you paid for the printer. The top rated printers right now are made by Canon and Epson, but of which license their ink technology out to other vendors so you can get the same quality at a cheaper price. The Canon Pixma MP600 got top marks in recent reviews from PC Magazine. The Epson RX700 are got good reviews. If you select all in ones and sort by editors picks, you will see that Canon occupies 5 of the top 6 spots with Brother getting the other nod (last link).
2006-12-28 22:52:01 · answer #3 · answered by villanim 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My HP Officejet all-in-one (after rebate:59.00)
does it all pretty well. I'm on the budget so
I have ALOT of fun printing pictures CHEAP
on regular paper. Don't know the longevity
of them, but save em in your harddrive and
do something better later if cost is an issue.
I do not recommend a sheet feed printer tho,
it limits you a little.
2006-12-28 19:38:46 · answer #4 · answered by twoBITrox 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would skip the photo printing. I stopped using my HP Photosmart 375 because of price. High end 4x6 sheets cost $.13 a sheet (not including the ink). Walmart prints them for $.12 each.
2006-12-28 16:31:23 · answer #5 · answered by allisoneast 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would recommend the any of the HP photo smart printers, they're good printers and not that expensive.
2006-12-28 16:22:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Anything from HP
2006-12-28 16:25:39 · answer #7 · answered by mothersister_3 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋