Inkjet Printers
In the market for an inkjet printer? Then this product comparison is required reading.
Does the printer lineup in this year's inkjet comparison call up a bit of déjà vu? It certainly did with us. Admittedly only a couple of the printers present are models that we tested in our roundup last year, but most of the remaining printers tested are evolutionary rather than revolutionary.
What has improved (and quite significantly) is the speed and quality of the output that your dollar buys. The four criteria we previously defined, which included portables as one of the categories, have been expanded. We looked at the products shipped to us and realised that there is a distinct sub-AU$200 category hotting up. As a consequence we decided to tweak the price points and came up with the following categories: sub-AU$200, AU$200 to AU$350, AU$350 to AU$500, and over AU$500.
And, as we have seen in the past, a simple rule of thumb is, the price goes up as the speed and/or output quality increases. A total of 17 printers were submitted from vendors such as Brother, Canon, Epson, HP and Lexmark. We attempted to run cartridge life tests on all the provided printers in both black and colour. However, a couple of the printers either did not ship with a second set of cartridges for the tests, or the second set of cartridges arrived too late for testing.
The testing procedure was pretty simple, set up the printer driver, run the cartridges dry and then calculate the number of 5 percent black and 15 percent colour pages they could produce, then divide this by the cartridge costs to arrive at a cost per page of ink!
We should also note that in most cases the printers do not ship with a printer cable. If you intend to purchase your very first printer be aware you will have to fork out a few dollars for the cable as well.
One interesting side note: if you are using the printer in a quiet environment where any extraneous noise is frowned upon, the HP printers are easily the quietest of the group. It's not necessarily the print head tearing back and forth that results in the other printers being noisier, it's the paper feed motors and gears that appear to produce the most noise, and HP have subdued this noise admirably.
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