November 10, 2006
HP Photosmart C4180
While HP’s strength in photo printing is once again proved, mono prints take too long and the scanner is poor. -PC Pro
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While HP’s strength in photo printing is once again proved, mono prints take too long and the scanner is poor. -PC Pro
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he Canon Pixma MP600 is a three-function all-in-one that combines a fast, high-quality printer and a scanner to offer printing, scanning, and standalone copying. -PC Magazine
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The HP Color LaserJet 3500 is a good printer for a home office or a small business that needs quality printing but not expandability. -ZDNet
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The HP LaserJet 1018 is relatively slow for the price, but it offers decent output and is small enough to fit almost anywhere. -PC Magazine
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The Ricoh Aficio CL3500N has the speed and paper capacity to be a heavy-duty workhorse printer for a busy small office or workgroup. -PC Magazine
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If you need a relatively inexpensive second home printer primarily for printing photos, or if you have a personal monochrome laser and need an ink jet for printing in color, the Epson Stylus Photo R220 may be just what you’re looking for. It offers reasonably high quality across the board and very good performance for photos. -PC Magazine
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Churning out one or two labels on a standard printer can be an annoying, frustrating chore. Label printers are all about convenience—they make the task easy. But with most models, changing label sizes means swapping label rolls—and that’s often as awkward as changing the paper tape in a supermarket cash register. The DYMO LabelWriter Twin Turbo ($180 street) offers a simple solution: It holds two rolls at a time. -PC Magazine
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The DYMO LabelWriter Duo ($200 street) is similar to DYMO’s DYMO LabelWriter Twin Turbo in concept, but with a twist. Both offer two label printers in one product. But in the Twin Turbo, both printers are identical, designed for paper labels such as address and file-folder labels. In the Duo, you get two different kinds of printers—one for paper labels and one for permanent plastic, nylon, and polyester labels (which we’ll refer to collectively as plastic labels in this review). The result is a very different beast. -PC Magazine
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For those who don’t need to print in color and want laser speed from their AIO, the Canon imageClass MF5770 ($500 street) offers just about everything a small office or a busy home office needs in a monochrome laser AIO. We say just about everything, because it doesn’t scan over a network. But it does give you fast performance, excellent quality text, good graphics, and the ability to fax from your PC—in addition to working as a standalone copier and fax machine. -PC Magazine
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The $500 Konica Minolta MagiColor 2430DL performed at roughly average speeds, and has a low estimated cost per color page. It produced text pages at 13.0 ppm and color graphics at 2.7 ppm, which was substantially slower than the speeds of the less expensive Dell 3000cn. -PC World
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