Canon ImageClass MF4270
The Canon ImageClass MF4270 is a basic and inexpensive mono multifunction machine intended for individuals or small offices. Unlike the sleeker Samsung SCX-4500, this $299 Canon multifunction features office-friendly features including an automatic document feeder, networking, and a duplexer. It lacks some of the more advanced features, however, such as fax forwarding and onboard scanning found on more expensive mulitfunctions such as the Lexmark X342n and the Dell 1815dn that some busy offices may require. If you need a multifunction for only basic print, scan, and fax needs, you’ll come to appreciate the affordable Canon ImageClass MF4270′s speedy task speeds and consistent output quality.
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Brother MFC-9440CN Multi-Function Laser Printer
The Brother MFC-9440CN is an excellent color laser multifunction printer for small offices and work groups. Its fast speeds, great print/scan quality, and large feature set are commendable. It’s not without its shortcomings, but they are minor. Compared with similarly priced multifunctions we’ve reviewed, such as the Lexmark X502n and the Xerox Phaser 6115MFP, Brother MFC-9440CN performs better for standard office use because it carries out all of its functions well. If you prefer asuper-high-quality prints, you may consider the HP Color Laserjet CM1017, but its slow print speeds won’t stand up to everyday office use. For everyone else looking for a multifunction that offers the features and performance that meet the wide-ranging needs of a busy office, we recommend the Brother MFC-9440CN. (more ink cartridges…)
Color LaserJet CP2025n:
The Hewlett-Packard Color LaserJet CP2025n is a pricey color laser printer built with the small business owner or work group in mind. At $450, the CP2025n can connect to multiple computers of a wired network and the printer produces high-quality prints, and we recommend the HP CP2025n for offices that need a dependable color laser printer.
The printer contain the four cheap toner cartridges (one black, three color) lined up in a horizontal row that use a single push-to-release tab for installation. HP provides a full set of cheap laser print cartridges in the box. A cheap black cartridge with a 3,500-page life span costs $123, while the color version is $121 for 2,800 pages. Strangely, there’s no mention of high-capacity cartridges available, so the cost-per-page equation factors out to 3.5 cents per black page and 4.3 cents for a full-color page–about average for today’s standard black prints and rather inexpensive for color prints. Finally, the CP2025n’s monthly duty cycle (maximum number of pages per month) is reported at 40,000 pages.
The HP cheap toner cartridge is quick to print color text and color graphics at 8.31 and 13.56 pages per minute respectively. Applied to real life, businesses printing a large portion of color documents will be satisfied with the print speed of the CP2025n.
The cheap black toner cartridge produces slightly more visually appealing text in smaller fonts than the cheap color toner, but remains true to the quality we expect from a professional laser. We’re particularly impressed with the graphical representations in our test subjects, which came out smooth and sharp.
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Epson stylus photo1400:
The new Epson Stylus Photo 1400 can spray out ink drops as small as 1.5 Pico liters. The 1400 uses six separate cheap ink cartridges: cyan, magenta, yellow, black, light cyan, and light magenta. So 1400 won’t make you waste the rest of your unused color ink just because the light magenta ran out again.
Scrap bookers, who often use 12×12-inch paper, will probably welcome the Stylus Photo 1400, since it lists for $150 less than the Stylus Photo R1800, which is the next step up in Epson’s 13-inch line. Sleek silver-and-black styling keeps the Stylus Photo 1400 from becoming an eyesore in your home office. Epson does include the ability to print onto CDs and DVDs, both full size and their smaller 8cm cousins used in camcorders. The driver for Epson is same as included on its other Stylus Photo printers, though it doesn’t include the fancy black-and-white driver that comes with the R2400.
The Epson Stylus Photo 1400 cheap cartridge offers 5,760×1, 440dpi, with a minimum ink droplet size of 1.5 Pico liters. As usual, Epson offers a wide array of photo papers for use with the 1400, and even has some strange options, such as its Iron-on Cool Peel Transfer paper and Photo Quality Self Adhesive Sheets.
Each of the six cheap ink cartridges will set you back about $20. Colors are generally accurate, and the printer did a fine job of preserving detail in both very bright and very dark areas of our images. Of course, the brightness of the whites and the depth of black will vary based on the paper you choose.
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HP DeskJet D2660:
The HP DeskJet D2660 single-function inkjet fast printer and print descent quality text. The whole printer only weighs 6 pounds, which makes it easy to move around a room.
HP DeskJet D2660 contains two separate ink tank cheap cartridges: one for standard black ink and another for HP’s tri-color tank. Using HP’s XL page yield and cartridge costs, black ink page alone cost 5.8 cents and a page of color cost 9.3 cents. That said, if you do plan on printing a large volume on a single function, we recommend the HP Officejet 6000. It’s double the price of the D2660, but the cheaper cost per page (2.7 cents per black, 2.1 cents per color) will definitely save you more money over time. We aren’t surprised to see that the D2660′s dual-cartridge ink can’t really handle more than simple text and light graphics documents. Black-and-white text output looks fairly pleasing, but the imperfections are obvious to the naked eye: thin lines result in slight bleeding, and blurred characters and cloudy white speckles tarnish the thicker letters, but for all the criticism we can provide, most people tend to care less about text quality as long as it’s at least decent.
We don’t recommend you print too many full-color photos on the D2660. The colors in our sample 3-inch-by-5-inch photos are all grossly under saturated at a low contrast, with choppy gradients and grainy lines running throughout the image. In addition, the skin in the portrait samples falls flat with overly cold, pink tones. If you’re looking to print a lot of photos from your digital camera, look elsewhere for a more true-to-image solution.
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The HP Officejet 6000:
The Officejet 6000 is HP’s latest offering in the single-function inkjet printer category. The HP Officejet 6000 uses HP’s 920 series cheap ink cartridges. The top of the printer pops open with a latch on the side, revealing a compact bay for individual black, cyan, magenta, and yellow cartridges. In addition to the standard cartridges, HP also sells extra-large models that we use for the highest potential cost-savings in the following cost per page analysis. According to the HP Web store, the XL black cartridge costs $32 and lasts for 1,200 pages, and the three-color cartridges cost $15 each for 700 pages. By our calculations, you’ll pay 2.7 cents for a page of black and 2.1 cents per page of color. HP cheap ink cartridge is capable of producing 3.54 pages of color graphic document per minute.
The quality of the print obtained from HP Officejet 6000 cheap cartridge is of good quality. Full color graphics document printed on HP’s Premium Presentation Paper came out bright and clear. The extreme clarity of facial colors and construction are perfect. It can be said that HP 6000 cheap ink cartridge can produce near “laser-quality” text. Photos printed out with HP 6000 cheap cartridge are accurate and pleasing. We should note that this printer is definitely office-oriented, so don’t expect the highest quality prints (some of the photo elements were washed out, for example), but you won’t be disappointed if you plan to use it more for text, with the occasional snapshot printout.
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Samsung CLP-315W:
The Samsung CLP-315W is a full color laser printer with built-in wireless connectivity that makes it easy to link several computers to the printer over a network. The compact CLP-315 series is one of the smallest in its class and the individual cheap toner cartridges save money by giving you the option of replacing each one separately.
The CLP-315W uses three color and one black cheap toner cartridge. These cheap cartridges are lightweight and easy to remove and replace using the color-coded tabs. Each cheap cartridge only comes in one capacity of 1,000 pages. These cartridges can by cheaply purchased for about $40. Since the black and color cartridges cost the same, we can estimate that each page will cost about 4 cents to print. Samsung is also limited by the number of pages it can print per month. The CLP-315W’s duty cycle number is about 20,000 pages.
Relative to other similarly priced color laser printers, the CLP-315W is significantly slower than the pack in both black and white and especially color prints. It scored 13.15 pages per minute for plain black speed, slightly faster than the Dell 1320c. The CLP-315W also takes the longest to spit out any kind of color document, scoring a measly 3.64 pages per minute for color graphics and 4.07 pages per minute for color text. The rest of the units in the comparison lineup finished printing in less than half the time in both categories.
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HP Color LaserJet CP1215:
The HP Color LaserJet CP1215 is a simple, single-function laser printer designed to fit comfortably in a small business work group. In terms of size, the printer measures a manageable 15.7 inches wide by 10 inches tall by approximately 20 inches deep.
The printer is fixed at a 600X600dpi resolution for both black and color. The CP1215 has four cheap toner cartridges: cyan, magenta, yellow, and black and contain roughly half of the standard volume of toner. Luckily, the cost of the CB540 toner series compatible with the printer is about average: $72 for the color cartridges that should yield 1,400 pages, according to the Web site, and $78 for 2,200 pages of black toner. Using those figures, since no high-volume toner cartridges are available, our calculations come out to 5.1 cents for a page of color and 3.5 cents per page of black. Finally, the CP1215′s cheap toner cartridge monthly duty cycle maxes out at 1,000 pages. This is definitely suited to a much smaller office with proportionally lighter printing responsibilities.
As usual, we have to congratulate HP on the quality of both color text and documents. While the output speed leaves a great deal to be desired, HP still manages to present well-formed black and color text with sharp edges and even shading across dense graphics. Overall, the HP LaserJet CP1215′s cheap toner cartridge print quality is definitely good enough for small offices that mainly print outtext with an occasional presentation.
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HP Photosmart Premium Fax All-in-One
HP is fully aware of the transition, and recently rolled out the HP Photosmart Premium Fax All-in-One, a device that combines an inkjet printer, fax machine, scanner, and copier. The printer uses five standard HP model No. 564 cheap ink cartridges for black, photo black, cyan, magenta, and yellow. The standard cartridges cost $10, but we’ll use the XL high-capacity option for our cost-per-page calculation to measure the best deal you can get from HP. The XL colored inks cost $18 apiece and, according to HP, they’ll yield 750 color pages, while the XL black replacement cheap cartridge costs $35 for 800 yields. By our calculations, a color page from HP cheap ink cartridge will cost you 2.4 cents, and a page of black strangely costs double at 4.3 cents. So, no need to invest in printer ink at every cartridge refill, when HP ink cartridge is available with a good discount.
We tested the printer using our standard text, graphics, and photos and the HP model No. 564 cheap ink cartridges delivered crisp lines and smooth transitions between varying colors. The overall gradients of color in photos appear evenly shaded with appropriate level accuracy. Since this is a photo-specific printer, we also focused on its capability to produce a dynamic range of contrast between colors. While most photo printers seem to suffer from chronic line banding and a lack of sharpness, the HP cheap ink cartridge consistently produces very pleasing images with hardly any trace of jagged or muddy graphics.
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Lexmark X502n color laser multifunction
Lexmark X502n color laser multifunction aimed squarely at small offices and work groups, the $700 Lexmark X502n prints, scans, copies, and faxes, and does it all quickly and well. The X502n isn’t perfect–it’s missing some fax features that are often important to offices–but if you can live without group dialing, secure-receive mode, and a junk-fax blocker, the X502n is an excellent choice. It’s one of the fastest lasers and its excellent speed doesn’t come at the expense of print quality. It’s also one of the more affordable lasers to maintain, thanks to reasonable print-refill costs. (more ink cartridges…)