ClickHere2Surf,

Thanks for the helpful info! I don't need photo quality (figure I will spend more money/time trying to make my own digital prints than I would sending them to a photo print company!) so I think the 1100 or 1200 would work.

Mostly I print Word/Excel documents, journal articles, etc - and often I have to do a lot, so print speed is a big consideration. I do like having color printing capability. Question: what do you think is the ink cost per page (for word docs) using 1100/1200? Any thoughts on who sells this printer at the best price?

Nancy



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If you dont need photo quality, I got an HP business inkjet 1100 (1200 is now out with even faster print speeds). The cartridges hold a TON of ink, I used to make 30 pages per cartridge set on my HP photo quality printer, I now must make 200 per cartridge set.

It is also very fast, 20 pages per minute in color, 23 in black, and comes standard with double sided printing.

I also still have an HP photo quality printer all in one (PSC 2410), they also have the same printer in stand-alone, ask if you want me to find the model number.

BUT, as I mentioned this printer will cost $2-4 US of ink per page (8x10 @ 100% coverage), so if you're printing pages with a lot of coverage like I am, DO NOT BUY THIS, unless you are willing to refill the cartridges every 30 pages, which is what I used to do until it became a ridiculous waste of time, so I got a business model that holds 5-6 times more ink.

So, if you want photo quality, and dont mind spending a fortune in ink OR a fortune in time by refilling (doing so brings ink cost to nothing, but it will take a lot of your time), get an HP that uses the 56/57/58 cartridges (only the ones that take the 58 cartridge are true photo-lab quality, the business inkjet claims to be photo quality, but the quality is almost as bad as the deskjet 710, but still VERY good for non-photo documents such as the DVD label of a software I sell).

If you dont need photo quality get the business inkjet 1100/1200, it's fast, comes with double sided printing standard, and prints a TON per set of ink cartridge. The cartridges for the 1100/1200 are also very easy to refill, I do refill them, but I also noticed they seem to be fairly cheap on ebay.

If you have any questions feel free to ask, I've done a LOT of research to decide on the Business inkjet 1100, I also considered color laser printers, until I realized they cost 4-5 times as much, then cost 5 times more in toner, are a LOT slower (4 pages per minute in color vs. 20-24 on an inkjet), and MUCH lower resolution, 600dpi VS 4800, as well as don't support double sided printing until the $3000 models.

I ordered print samples from HP and the color laser quality is absolutely terrible until you get in the $2000+ models, at which point it is still inferior to inkjet, and even the $10 000 ones can't beat a $100 photo quality inkjet for quality.