Deskjet Review

I am using a 10 year old Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 950C printer. It seems to work fine on generic photo paper, or on brand name paper. My question is: Is there really a difference between papers used by InkJets, DeskJets, LaserJets, etc.? I want to know if matte photo paper, listed as InkJet, from Epson will give a decent picture, on an H.P. DeskJet printer?

any type of paper will print on any computer. its better to use the type the printer recommends to get good prints. if you are doing black only it makes no difference.

Last year, Australians spent on average 251.5 days at the office. For many of us, that’s about 2012 hours at the desk, in front of at a carbon emitting computer or standing in front of a paper spitting, toner ejecting printer. It’s more important than ever to get your workplace in eco shape.

Australian offices use an estimated 1.4 million tonnes of paper every year. The average office document is printed 19 times. We throw out around 18 million used toner cartridges. Many of us leave our computers running and our office lights on into the wee hours of the night as we burn the midnight oil.

Here are some helpful cues for the cubicle, so you can enjoy those 2012 hours (or 1932 hours that are left) of 2009 in a more eco way.

1. Rethink ink and refill ink cartridges. A standard cartridge can be refilled up to four times before it needs to be replaced. Handy tip, get it filled as soon as you notice a decrease in the print quality, it keeps the heads from getting clogged up.

2. You can bring a cartridge recycling program into your office. Many of these programs collect toners and drums as well. Local outlets, such as the post office, will also collect them for reprocessing

3. Consider your superannuation. We all have it, but yours can make a difference towards the future. There are several super funds that have ethical or socially responsible options, such as Vic Super. This means that your superannuation money is only invested in companies that rate highly in terms of their environmental and social performance.

4. Ask to see your company’s environmental policy. If there isn’t one, then inquire as to why not, they might just be behind the green eight ball!

5. Relax and enjoy your lunch! If you’re buying food for lunch, eat it out instead of taking it back to your desk. It’ll save on packaging and keep your keyboard crumb free!

6. Look into starting an environmental committee at your work to affect change. It can be as simple as starting a recycling program or educating your colleagues.

7. Save paper and print double sided or re-use printer paper. Some printers can print double sided while others may require you to manually flip sheets over. Put a little reminder note on how to print double sided (Print side down!) to keep those little double sided feed-ins from happening.

8. Bring an indoor plant to work. They give your office a little green flair and give oxygen as wel as help filter indoor pollutants. Plants play an important role in keeping employees happy and relaxed while absorbing radiation from computers. Consider turning your office into an urban jungle!

9. Make sure your office switches off its lights at night, place a reminder notice above the switch. Switching on whole floors of lights for one worker burning the midnight oil is exceptionally wasteful. Consider using a desk lamp instead.

10. Power down computers and monitors. Standby power currently accounts for 10.7 per cent of average household power consumption which ends up as 6.5 million tonnes of CO2 emissions!

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Paige Green
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Currently in the business I am part of we are manufacturing (or attempting to) products that require magnetic paper to be printed on can you do this with a deskjet printer?

As long as the magnetic paper is inkjet/deskjet compatible and is does not exceed the paper specifications of the printer and you can feed the paper in manually, one sheet at a time since magnetic paper will try to stick to each other, then you shouldn’t have a problem.

You may have noticed much of the world is in a state of depression at the moment.  So, unless the financial crisis is passing you by like a mere mallard on the gargantuan lake of your accounts, you will realise that it is more important than ever to purchase the correct printer for your needs.  Let us not be so bold as to assume this will be an easy task; there are loads of printer companies out there, including Dell, Canon, OKI and HP; too many to write off as being “basically the same”.  For this reason I have seen fit to write a brief overview to printers in general, to help you gain a better idea of which kind of printer will be best suited to your company.

Buying a new printer its like getting married; as exciting as it is, few people enjoy the forward planning, the frustrating amount of details involved and the constant worrying about whether you have chosen the right one.  After all, we’ve all heard horror stories about people that have made the wrong choice and ended up with something that costs them a small fortune in the long run.  Whether it be potential wives of potential printers, there are essentially two kinds; good-looking but slow, or not so good-looking but convenient.  In the world of printers, the former is known as the inkjet and the latter as the laser printer; deciding which kind is best for you is the foundation of choosing a printer because, unlike in marriage, there is no easy way out for the poor individuals that invest in the wrong printer

As I have mentioned above, inkjet tend to produce fantastic image quality, but at an incredibly arduous pace.  Hence, for people that need to do a lot of printing in a very short time, they are utterly useless.   What’s more, just like their spouse equivalent; good-looking, slow inkjet printers aren’t great with text and, despite being cheap to get your hands on; they have a reputation for breaking down, stabbing you in the back and costing a fortune to maintain in the long run.  You can purchase a low end model for as cheap as £20-30, but will soon discover the price of replacing the ink cartridges for a couple of years is likely to be many times this original purchase price!  As if that wasn’t bad enough, inkjets need their cartridges changing a stupendous amount of times compared to laser printers, making them even more expensive for companies that rely on bulk printing.  

Laser printers, on the other hand, tend to produce very crisp text documents and solid-colour images at breathtaking pace; since the only images most companies need to print are logos and charts, laser printers are hence the perfect combination of quality and speed.  The downside is that, although monochrome laser printers can be purchased for as little as £120, colour laser printers cost between £200 and £400 – way more than their inkjet brethren!  However, as I have mentioned above, toner cartridges in laser printers do not require changing anything like as often as inkjet cartridges, which makes the overall cost of a lasers and inkjets quite comparable.  If your company printed 2500 mixed text and graphics colour-pages, for example; a laser printer could probably manage this with a single change of toner cartridge.  An inkjet, on the other hand, would probably need its ink cartridge changed around 10-12 times!  

Taking into account the price of their cartridges and the frequency with which they need to be changed, the price of producing an A4 page of standard quality text with an inkjet is around 8p.  By comparison, a laser printer can produce much crisper text for a mere 1p per page!  Producing a combination of text and images on a laser printer will still only cost around 2p, but the quality of the graphics and images doesn’t quite compare to the beauty produced by top-end inkjet printers.   However, the down side to these pieces of inkjet art (as you’ve probably guessed) is that they cost a fortune to print; around 30-50p per page!

The bottom line is that companies that produce lots of text documents should definitely invest in a monochrome laser printer; they produce the best quality text, as fast as possible at a small overall cost.  The OKI laser printer B2200, for example, prints a page of crisp text every 3 seconds for around £100! OKI Toner cartridges do cost around £35 a time, but they only need replacing once every 2000 pages.  Colour laser printers are also the best choice for companies that do a large amount of mixed printing; the overall print-quality of text and graphics is likely to be better, quicker and cheaper and the overall costs to an inkjet is comparable in the long run.

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I just bought a new HP printer (Deskjet Ink Advantage 2010 – K010a). My CD drive isn’t working, so I was thinking, is there a downloadable installer for my printer? Please provide specific details. Thanks!

P.S. My computer has Windows 7 Home Premium, 32-bit.

you can download the installer from the hp website, all you have to do is type it into google, although if you are not bothered by all the extra useless features that they throw into the program and all you want to do is print, then you should be able to just connect the printer to your computer and it will work. Windows has many printer drivers preinstalled.

Here is a link to the drivers and software to download. (If you want the software)

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=4157330&prodTypeId=18972&prodSeriesId=4157433&swLang=8&taskId=135&swEnvOID=4062

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span style=”font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";”>There are a number of different printers out in the market today to meet the needs of every user. When purchasing a printer for the home or business, there are a number of things that you need to take into consideration.

Common Kinds of Printers

There are three kinds of printers that are commonly used in the home and in small business establishments:

Inkjet printers. This is perhaps the most common kind of printer found in both home and business establishments.

Laser printers. These printers are slightly more expensive than inkjet printers but are more preferred, especially for business establishments. Aside from printing out materials with a quality that is higher than inkjet printers, they are less prone from smearing and smudging as in the case of inkjet printers.

Dot matrix printers. These printers are now more commonly used in business establishments than at home. Many complain of the noise that dot matrix printer emit when printing. However, these printers come in handy for printing receipts and regular status reports.

Use of the Printers

Printers found at home are used for the following purposes:

Printing of text documents (essays for schools, letters)
Printing of colored documents and images (photographs, greeting cards)
On the other hand, printers found in business establishments can be extremely varied uses, depending on the nature of the business establishments. All business establishments require a printer to print out documents to be disseminated to the employees of the business. It is a good idea, though, that business establishments use a variety of different printers depending on the operations of the business.

Cartridge Costs

One of the most important things that are taken into consideration when buying a printer is the cost of the ink or toner cartridges. Ink and toner cartridges are the most replaced part of the printer because each time that this runs out, new printer cartridges would need to be purchased. It is important to first find out if there are alternative printer cartridges that are available. Examples are generic and remanufactured printer cartridges. These printer cartridges are sold for almost half the price of original printer cartridges which can cut down costs in the long run.

Service Centers and Warranties

Just like any equipment, printers would need to be repaired and serviced on a regular basis. This is especially true for business establishments because of the high volume of print outs done on a daily basis. Most printer companies would offer a full warranty for the printer and its accessories for a certain period of time. It would be beneficial to ask where the printer can be serviced whether you are going to use the printer at home or for your business.

John C. Arkin
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The choice between the purchases of many different types of printers can be a challenging one. As sophisticated technology continues to change the landscape of the office environment, it becomes more and more difficult to determine the best course of action when choosing an appropriate printer. The laser printer, one of the more popular types of printers, has a variety of benefits that sets it apart from its counterparts.

As its name suggests, a laser printer employs the work of a laser beam to complete the printing process; the laser – like a camera of sorts – captures the image to be printed. The information is then printed by the toner cartridge which is standard to the laser printer. While other printers utilize liquid ink in their toner cartridges, a laser printer works with a powder ink that makes for a pristine and sophisticated result. The laser printer, free from ink and, therefore, free from smearing, produces a high resolution, and much more professional looking product than many other printers.

Office environments often turn to the laser printer for exactly this reason and are confident they can trust the laser printer to give them consistent professional results. And when, as is often the case in offices, multitudes of documents are printed at one time, the laser printer more than holds up to this increased need, leaving you free to concentrate on other things.

For a more creative work environment that relies on the printing of graphics and color photos, the laser printer continues to maintain its popularity. As office needs change, the laser printer keeps pace, elevating its technology almost yearly to match the demand for high resolution, photo quality copies.

Because of its price, the laser printer is often relegated to the office, rather than chosen for home use. But either way you use a laser printer, you will undoubtedly find its quality and reliability to be unmatched.

Michelle Bery
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I have a Dell Inspiron mini 10" laptop. I need to know if it would be compatible with the Hewlett-Packard deskjet 1500 printer? If they are not compatible, is there any equipment or software I will need to make them work together?
Sorry, the printer is HP deskjet 1055. Is HP deskjet 1055 printer and Dell Inspiron mini laptop compatible?

Its not the computer that is compatible with a device its the operating system.

The laser printer’s cartridges are more expensive then the cost of inkjet printer’s toner. However they do last longer especially if you remember to set the printer in black and white printing mode when printing black and white and only using the color mode when it is really needed. Another way to make an expensive color laser toner cartridge last longer is to keep the printer in low quality mode unless you are printing out the final document.

There are very few disadvantages to owning a laser printer in general but one of them is definitely the cost. The money that you could spend on a very high-end inkjet printer will only buy you a very low-end color laser printer with limited capacities. Color laser printers with multi-functions such as a copier and a fax all in one are even more expensive. However a middle of the line black and white laser printer is comparable to the price of a top of the line color inkjet printer.

Another disadvantage is the cost of the cartridges inside a laser printer. Sometimes the cartridges cost almost as much as the printer did which is why many people throw the entire printer out and buy a new one after the cartridge expires in year or two.

If you live in a hot or humid climate a laser printer may not be the ideal solution for you. This is because running these machines can make a room very hot. The fuser inside them, which is the device that melts the plastic granules that constitute the powder that makes up the toner onto the paper, heats up to as high as 200 degrees Celsius.

Another limitation of a laser printer is that they only really print on certain kinds of paper. If you want to print out photographs then a laser printer is not for you as they are not yet capable of printing high-resolution images. Also you cannot put photographic paper through a laser printer. For the best quality images you need to buy a bubble jet ink printer that can transfer an image onto photographic paper. The color quality that you get with a bubble jet ink printer is just as good if not better than the color quality that you can obtain with a laser printer. A high-end color printer that produces quality color images can cost as much as $3,500 to $10,000 whereas you can get a good quality ink jet printer for about $200.

Another disadvantage of laser printers is that many of them are limited by the amount of memory that they are sold with. This can sometimes limit the number of fonts that you can use. To expand the memory of your color laser printer you usually have to buy a small RAM board. This is the only reliable way to install memory so that the color laser printer can utilize a number of fonts.

The more expensive a laser printer is the faster it is. The affordable models only print out about four pages a minute. Top end models print out about twelve pages a minute but they are not really affordable for the individual.

Laser printers, especially the color laser printers, can also be heavy and take up a lot of desk space or room in the office. At the time of writing there was also no such thing as a portable laser printer. The reason that a portable laser printer has yet to be invented is because a battery does not yet exist that is small enough to provide laser printer functions with enough power so that it can be taken on the road.

Steve Buchanan
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Laser Printers are meant for printing high quality graphics and texts on plain paper. This the reason why this is looked upon as a lovely means to get everything printed on paper. This device is a fusion of a lot of technologies that makes it possible for people to get coloured as well as black out prints. With the processing of printing process within the device it is possible for people to get very crisp print-outs of images or texts placed in its image detector. A plain paper rolls over a roller and swaps ink on its way. The image scanned by the laser is thus gradually printed on the paper. This method of printing is flawless as there is an electric soft plastic blade that cleans the excess toner and deposits it in a reservoir. Then there is no blotting of ink and the final print out is absolutely magnificent. Every sort of printouts are possible with this device. The colour laser printer makes use of toner, basically dry ink, that are of types such as CMYK ( Cyan, magenta, yellow and black). Thus there is no complexity in colour printing and the print out is absolutely flawless. Maintenance of the laser printer is also very simple. This is because most printers make use of cartridge, supply toner, waste toner bottles and wiper blades. These make it possible for people to properly maintain the laser printer. The printer does not get untidy due to these waste disposal tools. The printers and scanners of Barcode are also very famous. The Barcode scanner as well as their printer are made very compact. Users can easily rely on them for printing and scanning of images and videos. The price of these gadgets are extremely reasonable and anyone can easily afford to buy one. The people always like the new things so there are many latest printers in the market right now. You can simply choose the variety. Information about the laser printer is also available on the internet. It allows people to easily learn about the features of the printers. Users can easily identify the ones that are the best by simply going through their specifications. Then it is also possible for people to learn about the price offered by different companies. People can easily buy the one that they find to be the best. Online orders for laser printers can also be placed. On filling in all the formalities it is possible for people to get a home delivery of laser printers.

Raisa Raima
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