The inkjet to buy

[unoc]

CPU, motherboard, memory and hard disk, all have numbers describing their capabilities.
Printers are normally classified by means of words such as: magnificent, costly, superb, "it makes perfect prints from photo", etc..etc.. But when it cames to make a comparison between two printers, we have to observe various articles which report images printed at a quality well lower then the worst inkjet printers.
So I should like to open a discussion about the best A4 inkjet printers. Epson 950 ? HP 5550 ? Canon i950 ? HP 1700 ? HP photosmart ?
Please let me know your observations


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[athalus]

i don't know anything about those particular printers but i've read some good things about the hp 5550 and at $129 it's starting to look better and better (i have an old 722c and w/xp the thing is even slower than w/w98 (3ppm black, 1.5ppm color)).

anyway the point i'm tring to make is that one of the big things to look for in a new printer is cost per page. when you do alot of printing the cost of an ink cartridge, plus paper can bring that number up to almost $0.10 per page and that's insane. i go through maybe 1 to 2 cart. per year so my cartridge cost is next to nothing. you might want to check cnet's hardware.com for reviews because they list this type of thing.

good luck!

 

[unoc]

Thanks for your opinion. You'r right, the cost per page is making the printer's market really insane.
In Europe I can buy a HP 5550, that I like very much, for about 120 Euros. It includes a full set of print cartridges.
The same print cartridges set, bought as replacement, has a cost of about 100 Euros. That means HP sell the printers within its package (cable, manual, CDs, etc..) but without the cartridges for only 20 Euros (22 USD). Because it cannot be the right price and I am sure HP does not sell the printer with no gain, HP (I don't know if Europe or Global) takes advantage by the fact that the user needs necessarily to buy the cartridges to continue using the printer, in order to make money in insane way.
The solution, for me, is to buy a new HP 5550 each time I need to change the cartridge (use it and throw it). The HP gain will be so reduced and probably HP will be obliged: to increase the price of the printer (reducing the market share) or to reduce the cost of the replacement cartridge (increasing market share). The last solution will increase the number of printers sold (20%÷30% ?) and will maintain the same gain for the cartridges sold.

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<font color=red>the new bios of my mobo let me to choose the P.rating number of my CPU.
Now I have an XP 8000 + </font color=red>