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(More customer reviews)I just bought this printer [today] and made some sample prints and they are really good.
Couple of Positives :
1. You may just load the black ink cartridge and the printer will print in black & white/gray. In my opinion this is by far the best feature. In my normal use 80% of the prints are documents which need only gray scale prints. My earlier Epson and HP photosmart would not print unless all the cartridges were plugged-in. That to me is ink drain. As the color cartridges would eventually dry up and need replacement just to satisfy the printer's desire for color ink.
2. Copy setting for Lighter/Darker copy: I'm not sure if other reviewers noticed that there is a setting on the front-panel in copy mode to adjust the darkness of copy. changing this to lighter mode will save some ink ; I've yet to see how many prints i get per cartridge.
3. Super fast prints : Who said the printer is slow. There are 3 modes in printing [Fast Draft, Normal & Best]. I have never used normal unless i'm printing photos or sales brochure. The Fast Draft is excellent for all purposes. Its sharp at the same time more than adequately dark. The normal mode is marginally more darker [and yes will take more ink too]. So unless you are printing Engg design or blue prints or sales material or graphics, i dont see why you would ever go for "Normal" mode.
4. Paper tray : i could see why you could get paper crammed up at corners, only if you have folds or turns on the paper to begin with. I havent experienced it.
5. The solution center software is very customizable. Let me first say this, this step is completely optional and if you have sometime on hand do customize it, it takes a little while to set the preferences if you want to make your life easier for the rest of your use. However you DONT have to customize it, it has prebuilt shortcuts for scanner usage[Scan to PDF, Scan to Word for Editing, Scan to Picture] and can be used right away after installation. You can set the scan resolution for every type of scanning requirement.
6. The optical character recognition is good with aplha-numeric text documents.
The Downside :
1. The LCD panel is 1 line display and is not backlit, hence hard to read unless you are directly infront of the printer. My printer is placed on the left side of the desk, so have to strech (good workout though:)
2. I agree Scanning takes a tad bit longer than printing, but thats cuz i have set the scan resolution at 600dpi, if you set it to default 300dpi, it would be twice as fast i assume.
3. Would have loved to have duplex [double sided printing] capability.
4. I find it little odd that the back portion of the print mechanism is a little exposed. Not that its a concern, just wondering from dust point of view.
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