For example, the first printer we want to introduce you, HP’s Photosmart CQ877A#B1H, shares an extraordinary configuration that features among others a fast processor and a pretty large memory of 64 MB. Concerning its speeds, the printer processes up to 33 black and white pages per minute and up to 32 pages per minute in color mode. One of the most important details regards its photo printing capability. More exactly, the machine prints a 4 x 6 inch photo in 16 seconds or so.

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The resolutions used are 600 x 600 for black and white and up to 9600 x 2400 dpi in color mode. The media types and sizes supported are: inkjet and brochure paper, photo, plain, greeting cards, labels and transparencies, and legal, letter, envelopes, 8 x 10 inch, 5 x 7 inch and 4 x 6 inch respectively. Usually, the printer comes with a four-color ink, including 1 black, 1 magenta, 1 yellow and 1 cyan (plus 1 photo).

Its copier speeds reach 33 cpm in both color and monochrome modes, developing at the same time a 600 dpi resolution. Even more than that, the networking is featured with a 802.11 b/g/n wireless which means that you can print from any other computer with more ease. As for scanning, the printer features a 1200 x 2400 dpi resolution and a 1200 dpi resolution (optical).

The second HP product we want to present you is HP Photosmart 5510 CQ176A. Somehow, the printer is part of the same series as it is able to develop more functions simultaneously. As a printer, the system is able to process 11 pages per minute in black and white (600 dpi resolution) and up to 7-8 pages per minute in monochrome mode (4800 x 1200 dpi resolution).

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Just like the previous printer, this one supports greeting cards, envelopes, labels, photo, plain and the following sizes: 4 x 6 inch, 8 x 10 inch, legal, letter and envelopes 10. Concerning the input and output capacity, we mention that the printer supports 60 legal sheets, 20 cards and photo paper, 15 transparencies, 10 labels and 5 envelopes as input, plus 25 sheets legal, 20 cards and sheets photo paper, 10 sheets transparencies and labels and5 envelopes as output.

According to the many, the first model, Canon Selphy CP800, first impresses through its speed and then through its ultimate configuration which feature pretty good resolutions and supports vary media types, including postcards and cards. To detail this idea, we mention that the product develops a 300 x 300 resolution for color prints and supports many different formats, including memory stick, XD Picture card, microdrive, microSD, secure digital and many others.

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The print speed varies with use, but we can afford to add that it takes this Canon up to 47 seconds to provide the first photo (3.9 x 5.8 inches). Concerning the media sizes supported, it also uses 2.1 x 3.4 inch photos, being featured with an ink tank. As for the technologies used, you must also know that this printer includes a backlit correction plus a red-eye one. Also, its latest technology hinders you of supporting too much noise while printing. Finally, the printer measures 6/7 inches depth, 2.3 inches height and 4.7 inches width and weights about 2 lbs.

Another impressive photo printer is Epson Artisan A50. This extraordinary system has already become part of the top rated printers on market. Unlike the previous model, this product can be used even for black and white prints. The first detail we would like to talk about is its resolution which goes up to 5760 x 1400 dpi for both mono and color mode.

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Also, the speed reaches 37 ppm (black and white) and up to 38 ppm in color mode, having a 120-sheet input paper capacity. Regarding the interface, this Epson is featured with a USB 2.0 port which helps you to connect the machine to other computers or devices. The media sizes supported are: 3.5 x 5 inches, 4 x 6 inches, half letter, envelopes and many others, while the types supported regard the following formats: photo paper glossy, matte scrapbook, Epson bright paper, etc.

Most of the fans appreciate its speed and print quality, something which propelled the model top of the most hunted cheap products. To use the printer your computer must be featured with Windows 2000 operating system or later, or Mac OS X 10.3.9.

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This is a laser printer, that has the characteristics like any other laser printer. I mean this is a printer, which is not that expensive, but at the same time, not that cheap. Because it is a printer available for a certain class of the people, it offers certain features, that you don’t find on some other printers. For example, because it benefits of the Wireless technology, you can use this printer from the room next to the room where the printer is. And yes, it runs even if you have the printer in one room and your office is three rooms away, if you allow me that kind of expression.

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The installation of the printer to work with your computer is easy and you can start printing in no time, immediately after the installation is done. The cartridges are also made by HP, they are easy to install and they will be replaced a long time after you will buy the printer. The weight of this printer is of 29.4 pounds, but the shipping weight is a bit more, because you will get the package, that is meant to protect the printer. So, the final weight is of 32 pounds. Currently, this item is available to be bought from Amazon only in the United States. The printer is not that old, being released on this site on October 6, 2010.

Why a normal user would buy this printer, which is apparently destined for the offices, where more people can use it? Because it is made by HP and because it allows you to connect to a computer in a Wireless way, thing that you don’t really see coming from the inkjet printers.

The 6 color printer I have chosen for today is the HP Deskjet 6940 color printer. This one benefits of 4 stars on the Amazon site, from the users who have already bought this device. Among the technical characteristics of this printer, we can name the next ones: this is a performant Inkjet printer, destined for the home users, the print quality is of 4800 dpi (which is clearer than any other printer I have seen until now, and trust me, I have seen many), it supports the Ethernet network (meaning that you can connect it directly to the Internet, without using a computer), it prints up to 36 pages per minute (we are not told exactly if the pages represent images/photos or texts) and the period of warranty, that comes along with the printer is of one year.

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The warranty does not mean that you can play football with your printer and then expect to run like before. Also, you must not expect that the engineers from HP will solve this matter on their expense, since you were that person who played football with the printer, and not them. Playing football with the printer is not among the potential activities, which can harm the printer, and which are supported by the warranty plan. This is an activity which only harms the printer, not being included in the warranty plan. There are some other aspects, that must be taken into consideration when dealing with this issue. A printer must never be kept under direct sunlight, nor in locations where is a high level of humidity or a lot of dust. From time to time, you must clean the printer, using the speciffic accessories, that you can buy also from HP.

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If you don’t know how to handle the printer, how to change the cartridges when they are empty, how to clean the printer, how to turn it off or on, you should read the user’s manual, and for the difficult tasks, you should address to a specialist.

On the outside, the unit was designed to inspire a solid and reliable look, and that doesn’t eclipse its stylish nature either. It was equipped with options that offer flatbed scanning, printing, copying, faxing, all of these naming the multifunction capacity of the office inkjet. It also has connectivity options through parallel cable that matches the Windows NT 4, and through USB that corresponds with Windows 98 and Windows 2000. Other features include 125 speed dial memory, a 150 sheet in-tray, 125 page fax memory, a 30-page automatic document feeder and an option that blocks unwanted fax numbers as well.

The OfficeJEt G85’s photo printing option offers obvious quality, while the HP’s Premium Plus gloss photo paper offers even better qualitative images, benefiting from a high resolution. Printing this type of photos will take only five minutes and 41 seconds, which proves to be even faster than the other HP impressive printer, the A-Listed PhotoSmart 1100. In numbers, it was exactly three minutes faster than the PhotoSmart 1100. There remains of course the possibility to print on standard quality inkjet paper, which didn’t prove to be such a good alternative for the HP OfficeJet G85, but it isn’t far from the A-Listed PhotoSmart 1100’s results either. In the later case, the prints were less colorful and they had a gray shade, lacking the gloss photo paper’s shininess.

As for the text quality, it is also very good, it was crisp and clear printed, having only a little foggy shade at the edges. The text printing is also very fast, timing only six minutes and 22 seconds for 25 text pages. The timing result is of 3.9 pages per minute, with approximately 0.8 pages per minute slower than the HP’s statement of 4.7 ppm for text printing.

The scan of a photo however, will not turn to be very accurate as in the printing’s case. Scanning can be done easily with the help of the Scan To button placed at the front of the case, in the control panel. Using the HP’s Director software settings of scanning at 600 dpi didn’t prove to make things better, the gray shade didn’t disappear, and proved unsuitable.

The copy option of the HP OfficeJet G85 functions at high standards, unlike the scanning, and the standard document copying can be made with the help of the HP’s Director software, which ensures qualitative copying even while scaled. The best quality that the HP OfficeJet G85 was enriched with is the flawless copying in a short period pf time, and the high quality offered by the copying device.

The Director software is really the greatest asset that helps the user to control all the HP OfficeJet G85’s functions easily, using the simple interface.

There are two main inkjet technologies that manufacturers are using in today’s devices. The first, thermal bubble (also known as bubble jet) is most frequently used by the two well known printer manufacturers, Canon and HP. It uses tiny resistors to create heat. The heat vaporizez ink and really small bubbles are created. The ink bubble then starts expanding and the ink is pushed out of a nozzle straight onto the sheet of paper. The second type of technology is know as piezoelectric. It uses piezo crystals (one crystal at the back of each nozzle) which receives a tiny electric charge. It starts to vibrate inward and pushes a very small amount of ink. Both these technologies work just fine for printing out text, images, and with the help of special photo paper, even decent quality photos.

Dye sublimation printing was invented to provide photo lab quality pictures at home.What didn’t make them very popular in the beginning was the extremely high price of the devices. But the more prices go down, more digital camera owners are choosing this technology over inkjet, that quite frankly can’t compare as quality. Compared to inkjet, in dye sublimation printing colors aren’t just pushed to the paper sheet as individual dots. Featuring a roll of transparent film there are solid dyes that correspond to the four main colors used in printing (CMYB – cyan, magenta, yellow, black). As the print head passes over the film, it heats up and causes those dyes to vaporize. The dye never goes through liquid stage, it turns straight from solid to gas. When the ink turns into gas, it diffuses onto the photo paper and solidifies. This means no small specks of ink to be seen (like in the case of inkjet). Hence, photos look more realistic and lab-quality-like.

Both the inkjet and the dye-sublimation technologies weren’t readily available to the home user. In the beginning inkjet was mainly used for text, while dye-sublimation printers were limited to high-end commercial printing (due to the high costs involved). Nowadays, both printer types can be found around the $100 price tag. In an inkjet vs dye-sublimation photo printers race, if a consumer needs the device strictly for printing photos, then the dye-sublimation one should win, quality-wise. But if you need an office printer to handle all your reports and paperwork as well, inkjet is worth considering.