 | Canon PIXMA MG5220 Wireless Inkjet Photo All-In-One (4502B017)
Good quality affordable printer -- 2010-09-06
I currently own an HP 6400 Series All-In-One printer. It's been good, but not very user friendly. I've heard good things about Canon from friends and family members. This printer is very affordable for what it does.
First, it is easy to setup and install. The printer is very sleek and has a very modern look. In comparison to my HP, it is about half the size and twice as easy to setup. Setup wi-fi and tested one desktop and three laptops, all successfully.
Only downside of printer is it has five cartridges. The quality of color on paper and photo paper is excellent. It will print a 4x6 photo in under a minute and it looks like it came straight from the photo department.
I would recommend this printer to anyone that is looking for a good all in one printer.
Best Printer I've Ever Owned -- 2010-08-26
This printer is great, I did a lot of research and decided to try it. I have never owned a better printer. It connected to my home WiFi and every device in my house (including my iPhone and my wife's iPad) can print to it. Pages print at blazing speed, and I can load both photo paper and regular paper at the same time and it automatically selects the correct media. Photos are gorgeous and text is super black and crisp. Push a button on the printer and it makes a copy or sends a file to my PC. I tried printing from my camera's memory card and that was super easy, the color LCD leaves no doubt about which photo is printing. It is beautiful to look at, although I'm sure it will need a lot of dusting (it is glossy black).
I bought this printer because my one-year old HP quit printing photos after I upgraded to Mac OS X Snow Leopard. I decided to give Canon a try. I will never buy another HP again. I liked their print quality, but they "abandon" you with driver support way too fast. Plus this Canon is easily 4x faster. And for $149, well what is there to complain about? I cannot comment on the ink usage, since I just got it, but I will update this review after a couple of months use.
Bye, bye HP, hello Canon!
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 | HP H470wbt Officejet Mobile Printer
Dorm Size Printer -- 2010-09-05
My oldest son went to college this fall and though I did not see his dorm room ahead of time, I still looked for a compact portable printer. This one was perfect for his use and both the battery and blue tooth make it very desireable for a college student.
Wireless printing -- 2010-08-15
I purchase this printer as a gift for my wife, It's a great portable printer and serves her needs. My only complaint is I misread the features and assumed I was getting a wireless printer. The bluetooth adapter is great for blue tooth devices however her laptop is not and she must use a printer cable, she's very please with it (I'm just disapointed).
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 | HP Color Laserjet CP1215 Printer
Inkjets are things of the past. Bye-bye past! -- 2010-08-31
While lacking some options like a network port, FAX and scanner/copier ability the HP CP1215 is viable option for the moderate business/home user. It is much smaller than some other color Laserjets, but still a sizeable footprint.
It required me to install two large Windows Service packs as a result of the software driver installation. I haven't fully explored the printer help available, but it offers some useful and interesting features. Such as percentage of toners left, how many pages printed, search for driver upgrades, etc. I can see it being a valuable tool if I exploit it.
I was having trouble with the color setting and found that the "Photo (AdobeRGB 1998)" setting comes closest to the color balance I enjoyed with my inkjet. The other settings were either too muddy, too rich, or too dark. As of now, I have little to no use for them. I don't suggest the default setting.
I had problems using the preset envelope option printing off center. I changed the setting to "manual feed" which easily corrected the problem, though I needed oan extra click to continue printing. A quick visit to the HP site let me find the new firmware download which fixed the preset envelope issue. It may fix other quirks you might be experiencing.
There is a handy port which raises above the paper tray. This allows the easy insertion of paper for special "one type" prints on different paper. The tray actually extends to accomodate legal size paper by pressing the blue extention tab and pulling out the front of the tray. Pretty nifty concept.
It takes a few seconds more than I care for the print to actually start, but once it does I have full page color prints in MUCH less time than inkjet. It doesn't handle linen business cards well as toner doesn't seem to get in the small crevices, even when using the "rough paper" option. The great thing is the toner doesn't smudge or smear if you get the paper wet as it repells water. It should be much more suited for archival of important documents.
Once you have the correct setting, the HP CP1215 excells in print quality on nearly any kind of paper. The brightness of the paper does little to hinder the brillance of the wax-like printed medium. There is even a "colored paper" setting so printing on colored paper is possible without losing too much color saturation - a problem with inkjet printers. This allows me to create and print my own razor sharp colorful letterhead on 100% cotton paper because it doesn't absorb toner as it does ink.
Warm up time is fast and puts inkjets to shame in terms of speed and quality. In spite of the high cost of toner you will yield much higher print jobs, and little loss of toner due to drum cleaning. I estimate the average user wastes 10 to 20 percent of ink on the head cleaning process. Considering the high cost of ink, color laserjets are the more economical decision for the long run. However, toner isn't cheap either - just more economical.
I have two Epson inkjets and they still have their place for me because one prints on CD/DVD disk, and the other is a wide carriage printer. In time I expect to be a Color LaserJet-only user. Inkjets are things of the past. Bye-bye past!
Do not buy this printer! -- 2010-08-13
The Hewlett-Packard Color LaserJet CP1215 is not a printer you want to buy. The paper jams continually. The primitive, 1980s-type display constantly assails you with meaningless error messages. The display has a total of two buttons, one green and one peach, neither of which seem to do anything. The calibration cycles are long and random and noisy. And all of this dysfunction comes at an exorbitant price. The CP1215 seems to combine in one piece of equipment all the errors and problems with computer printers over the last quarter-century. Avoid this printer, folks. There are better printers on the market: namely, all of them.
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 | HP Officejet 6000 Wireless Color Inkjet Printer (C9295A#B1H)
Perfect for School -- 2010-09-08
I am very pleased with this printer. It took a little time to set up but it wasn't hard at all. The instructions were very easy to follow and the packaging was easy to open so it wasn't a huge hassle. The printer itself works great and is very fast. I'll be using this for school and it's great to know that I'll have a printer that has great quality and speed to boot.
Do not buy. This printer will GOUGE you for ink cartridges. -- 2010-08-31
I rarely print color pages, yet this printer continues to inform me about once a week that I need to purchase yet another new color cartridge. SO I decided, since i don't NEED color prints, I would just let the color cartridges run out. But when I try to print black text, the printer spits out red, even though 1.) The black ink cartridge is brand new & full, and 2.) I even instructed the print settings to use the black cartridge only!
This is just one of HP's many ways of trying to take our money, and I will never buy one of their printers again based on this experience. I recommend that no one buy these cruddy printers.
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 | HP CP2025N Color LaserJet Printer
What an excellent product for a good price. -- 2010-08-31
I highly recommended. It works excellently. The traditional good quality in HP. The only problem is when you start purchasing those so expensive replacement toner cartridges with the abusive price from HP.
Not for Moderate Office Use -- 2010-08-19
Would not recommend for more than 4-5 people using this printer. We had 2 of these in our office with only about 12 people printing between the 2 of them and after a few months, both developed yellow and/or blue streaking on everything it printed it out.
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 | Lexmark Prevail Pro705 Small Office Wireless Multifunction Inkjet Printer
What a waste of money. -- 2010-09-01
I bought this because I was lured in by their offer of customer support and the fact that it is supposed to work with Linux.
Well, I have spent countless hours over the past 3 months on the phone with their support. It does not do what it says, it is not compatible with 64 bit Linux and they do not think it will ever be compatible.
I have installed 2 new print heads, and burned through 3 sets of ink. All with only printing 92 pages in the 3 months I have owned it. I have not been able to use it due to how poorly it works!!
It will not print on the micro perforated business cards. It makes very loud squeaking and cranking noises when scanning, and since the last print head install, I get random pink bars across the page when printing. Each time I call in, they say they will fix it, but I just end up wasting hours and find a new problem afterwards.
Save your time and money. Buy a printer from anyone else!
Lexmark Pro 705 -- 2010-08-22
I have owned many printers over the years, HP, Canon, Oki, Etc. The things that I really like about this Lexmark is that you can print on both sides,(saving Paper), it can be used WiFi by all three computers in our home with no wires, it's multi function and does it all, and most importantly the print cartridges are cheap and seem to last longer. The biggest scam going today is that most printers ink cartridge replacements cost nearly as much as a whole new printer, which is rediculous. Ink refills usually don't work correctly and are messy. Lexmark has a program where you buy a few and get a free one.
The photo quality printers print better but when you add up paper and ink costs it's too expensive for photos. For all around general office and home color printing this model is great and doesn't break the bank.
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 | Epson WorkForce 30 Color Printer (Black) (C11CA19201)
Better then what I expected for the price! -- 2010-08-08
First, some of the reviews I've read on this printer unfairly compare it to much higher end models. This is a BASIC home/office printer. I use it at work and print about 20+ BW docs a day and only an occasional color photo. I have an Epson R320, R340 and an Artisan 50 for the good stuff. But I needed a little workhorse that would eliminate me from running to the receptionist's desk every time I wanted to print a document to the network printer at work. The first thing I noticed was this is the FASTEST printer I've ever owned -- I LOVE it! Unlike my Artisan 50 at home, the 30 is LOUD -- but hey, the boss knows I'm working. Besides, I don't know how much quieter it could be with the carriage moving back and forth so fast. You can quiet it down using the properties and sacrificing some speed if it bothers you. Setup was very easy and Epson has a great Windows 7 support page for the newer printers. However, I'm running win98 on my work PC so I can't comment on it's compatibility with Win7 (The only reason I mention this is because it was helpful with my Artisan 50 at home). Overall I've had good luck with this printer. BW print quality is great and color is decent. But if your want a photo printer, you have to spend more money to get high quality photos. I feel that I got more for my money than I expected. I wanted an inexpensive workhorse and that's exactly what I got. So far the only downfall is the typical overpriced Epson ink.
Epson Workforce 30 -- 2010-08-02
Nice Printer. Great quality. Photos are great.
Soaks up a lot of ink though.
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 | HP LaserJet P1006 Printer
WARNING! -- 2010-09-02
Bought this printer TWICE (one used here on Amazon, and one open box from a store) and neither worked. Poor design all around. I bought the 1606 instead. Hopefully that's the more durable one of the current HP's. Thought this would be a good "speed increaser" over my old warhorse 1100's, but it's a flimsily-made step down instead.
This laser printer works fine for me. -- 2010-08-29
In the past I spent over $100.00 for a small printer...the size of a wax paper box. It froze up after one year. Then I purchased another...the same size and it too...froze up. They were well known brand names. I needed one for traveling and decided on this one and it works perfect with my laptop. It holds a lot of paper and prints fast. Sure, it's a little bigger but it fits into a suit case or in the back seat. It always works...and the ink cartridge lasts a long time for me. It is just a smaller version of my bigger HP printer...and it always works. What more could you want? One last thing...it installs just fine on my new laptop with Windows 7.
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 | HP Photosmart D110A e-All-in-One Printer (CN731A#B1H)
Frustrating printer -- 2010-07-15
The printer is nice in that it's easy to set up and use; it uses cheaper ink and it takes nice scans - if you can actually get it to scan an entire document. I guess this is it's 'smart' feature coming into play, where it crops out anything it thinks isn't part of the document. I've given up using it; and I just bought it a few weeks ago. I can't get it to scan a whole document without it breaking it up into several different pieces and cropping out parts. Just today the copy feature stopped working as well. I made a mistake buying this thing - huge waste of money. At least it came with a pretty tote bag so I can conveniently carry its worthless carcass around with me.
Good Printer but Felt a Bit Cheated -- 2010-07-06
HP should've waited until e-Print service is available to launch this product line. I too, like some reviewers here, bought it thinking that I'd be able to start e-printing immediately.
That being said, the printer is a nice one and WiFi connection via home wirless router was easy, albeit a bit time-consuming with installation CD need to run on multiple computers. The look, speed and print quality are all noticeably improved over my 6-yrs old PSC printer. And the price is only a bit more expensive than the D-Link wireless print server that I tried (and returned, due to diffulty to set up).
Just hoping that e-Print will be available soon, so that I can print from my iPad.
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 | Epson Stylus C88+ Ink Jet Printer (C11C617121)
Driftwoodco: seller of e-waste -- 2010-08-25
I bought a used Epson stylus C-88+ color printer from driftwoodco for a project. The project was delayed so I didn't buy the cartridges right away. After a couple of months I needed the printer and when I set it up with ink it did not print. Nothing. Nada. When I emailed driftwoodco, they did not reply to my email. No acknowledgement whatsoever. Outside this printer looked good with original labels on it, but inside it was dirty. My guess is that they did not test it to see if it worked and just sent it to me. Now I am stuck with their re-packaged e-waste and I have to pay to dispose of it after it never printed a single page!!!! Driftwoodco is the worst supplier I have used on Amazon.
Good Economy Printer -- 2010-08-23
Best Feature - Straight in paper loading for checks and envelopes. Worst Feature - less than solid machine, somewhat "lightweight".
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