variety can sometimes cause problems..

There are lots of printers of different brands out in the market.. how do you evaluate them? on what basis would you chose a printer?! what would make you go for one printer and leave out the rest?

ofcourse it all depends on your usage.. but what else?

There are many reasons......such as:

- Printing speed.

- The quality of the printout

- The cost of the ink. (the ratio of ink usage)

- The extra features it has (like printing on different type of paper)

- The noise a printer can cause during printing (some like it very quiet others dont mind).

- The software package that comes along with it. for example, how easy is it to install it? If it gives you ink usage indicators.

- How easy it is to replace the ink cartiages.

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thats basically a summary of what we could look into while buying a printer. And as you mentioned....there are alot around...and most of them are equal in features...but there is always a more perferable brand then the other.

how would you get the above information from the label?!

maybe we can take a look at different printers and compare them..

what do you say?!

and another thing.. what are te most preferable brands?!

Here's one:

S900 (1 PPM, 2400X1200 DPI, Color, 80KB)
Manufacturer: Canon
Model: 6873A001
Category: Ink Jet

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how would you evaluate the above one?!

DeskJet 1220Cse Color Inkjet 2400x1200dpi 11ppm
Manufacturer: Hp (hewlett-packard)
Model: C2695A
Category: Ink Jet

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this and the one mentioned earlier are around the same price...

which would you go for?

If you are not using it for proffesional work, like just for having it as a house printer to print some texts from time to time, you shouldn't worry about anything other than the price of the ink and availability of it. Check the availalbility for the Canon ink, becuase I don't think it is very common to use Canon printers, and check the price of the ink that the HP printer uses.

well, for starters they have the same dpi (dot per inch) thats the clearity of the print out, but if you check the speed, the canon was 1ppm and the hp was 11ppm (ppm = page per min, which in this case is text otherwise it would have been mentioned) now i wouldnt like to have a 1ppm printer at office or at work... i would go for hp any time...

other details from epinion.com

Brand HP

Compatibility Macs • PCs

Connector Type Parallel

Max Paper Size 19 x 13 inches

Max Printer Memory 8 MB

Max Printer Resolution 600 x 600

Network Ready No

Pages Per Minute (Color) 9.5 ppm

Pages Per Minute (Monochrome) 11 ppm

Print Technology Inkjet

Standard Printer Memory 8 MB

Standard Sheet Capacity 150 sheets

Price: about $400

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Brand Canon

Color Black • Gray

Compatibility Macs • PCs

Compatible Operating Systems Apple MacOS 8.1 or later • Apple MacOS 8.6 or later • Apple MacOS 9.x • Apple MacOS X • Apple MacOS X / MacOS 9 • Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional / XP Professional • Microsoft Windows 98/ME • Microsoft Windows 98/ME/2000 • Microsoft Windows XP • Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition

Copier / Type None

Dimensions / Depth 12.6"

Dimensions / Height 7.3"

Dimensions / Weight 12.8lbs

Dimensions / Width 17.4"

Manufacturer Canon

Manufacturer Part Number 5058549 • 6873A001 • BE6873A005AA

Model 900

Modem / Type None

Networking / Type None

Packaged Quantity 1

Printer / Connectivity Technology Cable

Printer / Duplex Printout Not available

Printer / Max H-Resolution BW 2400Dpi

Printer / Max H-Resolution Color 2400Dpi

Printer / Max Media Size (Standard) A4 (8.25 in x 11.7 in) • Legal (8.5 in x 14 in)

Printer / Max Printer Speed (Color) 7Ppm

Printer / Max V-Resolution BW 1200Dpi

Printer / Max V-Resolution Color 1200Dpi

Printer / Media Path Type Straight

Printer / Media Type Banners • Coated paper • Envelopes • Glossy paper • Glossy photo cards • Glossy photo paper • Greeting cards • High resolution paper • High-gloss film • High-gloss photo film • Iron-on transfers • Photo paper • Plain paper • Transparencies

Printer / Output Type Color

Printer / PostScript Support Not available

Printer / Printer Speed 7Ppm

Printer / Total Media Capacity 100Sheets

Product Line Canon S

Scanner / Type None

Service & Support / Type 1 year warranty

Type Personal

Price About $250



you do the math.... :D

get yourself epson, for personal use.

Talking of experience, epson rocks in the inkjet and dot matrix world. But HP rules in the laser printer .

i hade some bad expirence with the epsons, 740... bad software, i dont know about the new onces thought they seem to look nice...

i would go for any hp blind folded... like the new inkjet 3240... sweet, small in size, fast, good for uni students who want a printer for a year...

Originally posted by Kamakazy
i hade some bad expirence with the epsons, 740... bad software, i dont know about the new onces thought they seem to look nice...

What do you mean by bad software? Man, are you sure you had bad experience for that reason. Because I've had experience with epson for more than 6 years, and never had any single problem. I've worked alot with many of epson models at work too.

Can you specify more your problem ?