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Color Inkjet Photo Printer
Epson
Stylus Photo 780 from
Epson
Photo printing demand has increased significantly since the digital camera
started to go mainstream. People who took pictures with their digital cameras
also wanted to print them, so photo printers, such as this model, began to get
introduced.
Fair text quality and slow performance, but really excellent color and photo
capability. This will give you much better color printouts because it uses 6
CYMK primary colors in its printing instead of the usual 4. You really need to
use special expensive glossy photo quality paper for best results. ($1 a page)
Larger Photo model available for printing on 13" x 44" media. We
utilize a laser printer as our main printer and utilize this exclusively for
color photo printing.
Features: 2880x720 resolution, 54 seconds per 4x6 Photo, under 2 minutes per
8x10 Photo, 4 picoliter ink droplet size (variable), 6 color printing. Quiet 47
dB sound level, plain, bond, and photo film media. Holds 100 sheets, parallel,
serial, and USB interface. Compatible with both PC and Macintosh computers.
Comes with imaging software to retouch photos, print multiple ones on a page,
and create photo albums.
Ink cartridges have chips in them, making it hard for 3rd parties to make
replacements!
Attributes (Minimum): Resolution (1440x720), Speed (6 ppm),
Quality (6 pico min), Color Printing (4 color), Consumable Cost, Interface Type
(USB), Noise, Paper Capacity. This site has info on
using refilled printer cartridges.
A great color photo printer. Compared to the predecessor Photo 870, this printer
has better quality and performance. Support edge to edge printing with rolls of
photo paper. Supposed to have water resistant photo printouts. Excellent manuals
and setup instructions.
Comments: Shipped in March 2001. There have been issues with photos
fading when exposed to Ozone. Epson will refund your money if you complain. They
claim the problem is with their Premium Photo Glossy paper. This
site has more information.
Epson
Stylus Color 777 from
Epson
Features: 2880x720 resolution, 12 pages per minute black and white, 3 minutes
per 8x10 Photo, 4 picoliter ink droplet size, 4 color printing. Quiet 47 dB
sound level, plain, bond, and photo film media. Holds 100 sheets, parallel, and
USB interface. Compatible with both PC and Macintosh computers.
If you are purely printing photos, the Epson Stylus Photo with its 6 color
printing method is a better bet. Actual performance from PC Magazine 11/21/2000
was 2ppm Text and $0.14 per page print cost.
Attributes (Minimum): Resolution (2880x720), Speed (6 ppm),
Quality (6 pico), Color Printing (4 color), Consumable Cost, Interface Type (USB),
Noise, Paper Capacity.
A great color inkjet printer for a home user. Decent text quality and speed,
along with really good color and photo capability. You really need to use
special expensive glossy photo quality paper for best results. ($1 a page) If
you are mainly going to print text or black and white images, you are better off
buying a laser printer. Text quality is so-so, but color graphics quality is
very good, but not as good as Epson's Photo line of printers.
Alternates: HP DeskJet 812C
Comments: Introduced 9/2000. This
site has info on using refilled printer cartridges.
DeskJet
952C from
Hewlett Packard
HP has always made high quality printers and long-lasting cartridges. If
you’re looking for a realiable printer that you can use for many years, HP is
the way to go. Although it does not print photos as well as an Epson, HP still
ranks in the top printers.
Features: 600 dpi resolution, 2400x1200 dpi on photo paper, 11 pages per
minute black and white, 8.5 pages per minute B&W, 3 minutes per 8x10 Photo,
2 cartridges (1 Black, 1 Cyan/Magenta/Yellow). 2 paper trays - 1 letter, 1 4x6
photo paper. 4 MB Memory, plain, bond, and photo film media. Holds 100 sheets,
parallel, and USB interface. Optional double sided printing. 1 year warranty.
Compatible with Macintosh computers that have USB.
If you can bear with a slower print speed, the HP DeskJet 842C has identical
quality at slower speeds. 952C is a 950C with more software.
Attributes (Minimum): Resolution (1440x720), Speed (6 ppm),
Quality (6 picol), Cartridge Colors (4 color), Consumable Cost, Interface Type (USB),
Noise, Paper Capacity.
A great mid-range color inkjet printer. Great text quality and speed along with
good color capability. You really need to use special expensive glossy photo
quality paper for best results. ($1 a page) If you are mainly going to print
text or black and white images, you are better off buying a laser printer.
Alternates: Epson Stylus Color
Superscript
1400 from
NEC
Laser printers print using toner cartridges instead of ink, allowing them to
have the ability to print razor sharp text at high resolutions. The cost per
page for this printer is still pretty inexpensive, coming in anywhere from 2 to
3 cents a sheet. At its price, it’s a hard printer to beat in the low-end
laser printer market.
12 pages per minute, 4MB RAM, 1200 DPI, Adobe PrintGear imaging engine, 78
Type 1 fonts, 250-sheet tray, 2 year warranty, and HP PCL 4. Comes standard with
parallel and USB interface, upgradeable to Ethernet network interface and
Postscript level 3. PC and Mac Compatible
Attributes (Minimum): Print speed (8 ppm), print quality (600 dpi),
paper handling, printer engine, interfaces (Ethernet), imaging engine, warranty
(1 Year).
NEC is a leader at making decent low cost laser printers. Inkjets have outsold
lasers for years, but laser printers still have their place. We recommend them
when most of your output is textual and you need speed.
Alternates: Brother HL-1040
Comments: This replaces the 870.
HP
LaserJet 4100n from
Hewlett Packard
25 pages per minute, 1200 DPI, 250 Mhz RISC processor, prints up to 8.5 x 14,
3 paper trays with capacity to 600 pages, 16 MB RAM, 10/100 Base-TX Ethernet
port, internal print server. First page in 12 seconds. 150,000 pages per month
duty cycle. Optional duplexer and disk drive. Supports HP PCL 6, PCL 5e, and
PostScript Level-3 emulation. One wonders why they just don't license Adobe
Postscript! 1 year return to HP warranty. HP printers command a 20% premium over
most of the competition.
tn - adds 500 sheet paper tray. Attributes (Minimum): Print speed (20 ppm), print quality (1200
dpi), paper handling, printer engine, interfaces (Ethernet), imaging engine,
warranty (1 Year). Workgroup
Laser Printer
HP
LaserJet 2200dtn from
Hewlett Packard
19 pages per minute, 1200 DPI, 133 Mhz RISC processor, prints up to 8.5 x 14,
2 paper trays with capacity to 250 pages, 16 MB RAM, 10/100 Base-TX Ethernet
port, IrDA-compliant infared port for laptop printing, internal print server,
first page out in 15 seconds. Includes duplexer. Supports HP PCL 6, and
PostScript Level-2 emulation. One wonders why they just don’t license Adobe
Postscript! 1 year HP warranty with Express Exchange. (Refurbished replacement
unit the next day)
Attributes (Minimum): Print speed (10 ppm), print quality (600
dpi), paper handling, printer engine, interfaces (Ethernet), imaging engine,
warranty (1 Year).
HP’s Workgroup Laser Printer is pretty much two things together – a laser
printer and a computer server. The print server capabilities on this printer are
reliable and fast. The PCL and Postscript emulation brings compatibility with
most Windows and Linux systems.
dtn - adds 500 sheet paper tray, duplexer.
Alternates: Lexmark Optra S2455n
Comments: Introduced April 2001
The HP LaserJet 2200 is a great printer for Small business or Home office
looking for a shared network printer. This printer is fairly fast at 19 PPM, has
a good print server, allows Laptop or PalmPilot printing through IrDA, and has a
slew of other features making this a full-featured network printer. PCL and
Postscript standards are supported, giving this printer compatibility across
Windows and Unix networks.
Comments: 2200 shipped in March 2001.
