Can anyone recommend a wireless printer copier scanner
been looking at an
Epson Stylus DX9400F WiFi Edition
a Brother DCP-770CW and a
Lexmark X4850
have had Epson and lexmark printers myself and have been happy with both, looking for any personal experiences with any of the above.
Regards
Geoff
Go with the epson. They usually work out the cheapest in the long run.
Lexmark cartridges were always a stupid price unless you were a business, not sure what they are like now.
David
Canon MP600R ?
I rate canon very highly - use canon ink and paper and print quality is fantastic.
No experience of wireless models though.
Epson
epson cheap to run and repair
canon with 4 seperate ink tanks!
that way you only replace the one that runs out, no all of them if one runs out.
as for wireless, i managed to set up our desktop to share the printer, through the wireless router. don't ask me how i did it, it just suddenly
worked one day
that means though your desktop has to be switched on all the time
^^^^^^^^^^^^ Wot he said
Combined ink tanks are a ripoff - I always get printers with 4 or 6 separate ink tanks. Neiworked printers are handy as you can share them easily.
Photo printers are useful to print pics of cars too 
Mine is a Canon C5180 All-in-one - excellent quality and under £100 iirc.
[Edited on 14-1-08 by RazMan]
Get an HP 
Canon vote from me - nice piece of kit......
Where inkjets are concerned HP are the only make to consider, 100% trouble free, I just checked the hp2575 on my desk and its web interface page count
shows it has printed 27,573 -- without a single jam.
Cannon make great lasers as do Brother but Cannon Inkjets suffer from clogged nozzles..
Epson are the king of dot matriox printers but the inkjets tend be slow and I have seen a few that won't recognise new cartridges.
Lexmark are great but the cheaper ones are slow.
[Edited on 14/1/08 by britishtrident]
I agree about the HP - with one reservation. Their associated software drives me nuts! It's firmly aimed at the beginner, so anyone who has a
reasonable understanding of the way things work will soon get very annoyed! There's a definite "You don't want to do that, do it our
way, you know you want to, I know it takes longer and doesn't give the results you really want, but doesn't the interface look
wonderful?" outlook on things. It also consumes a vast amount of space on the hard drive.
The HP-written interface on Linux (HPLIP) is brilliant - you do the job you want, no more, no less - so why can't they offer that for Windoze?
<end rant>
[Edited on 14/1/08 by David Jenkins]
There's normally a driver only package for HP printers. Have a browse on the (slow) website. It will allow print/scan etc but doesn't
install thousands of useless apps on your PC.
FWIW I have both HP and Brother inkjets in use and they are great, in their own way. The Brother was 89 quid and is a network ready printer, fax,
copier and scanner. No use for photos but text/graphics are fine. I have no idea how they do it for the price.
quote:
Originally posted by David Jenkins
I agree about the HP - with one reservation. Their associated software drives me nuts! It's firmly aimed at the beginner, so anyone who has a reasonable understanding of the way things work will soon get very annoyed! There's a definite "You don't want to do that, do it our way, you know you want to, I know it takes longer and doesn't give the results you really want, but doesn't the interface look wonderful?" outlook on things. It also consumes a vast amount of space on the hard drive.
The HP-written interface on Linux (HPLIP) is brilliant - you do the job you want, no more, no less - so why can't they offer that for Windoze?
<end rant>
[Edited on 14/1/08 by David Jenkins]
quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
The HP site drivers without all the clutter are better.
Also if the printer has a network connection wired or wireless use that and control the printer via its own built in web server.
On small networks I put the printer on a fixed IP and disable its built in cut down DCHP server.
All Hp drivers can be found at http://www.hp.com --- it's a very busy (slow) site.
The best way of finding IP addresses on a small network is to use a nice genuinely free bit of software the Angry IP Scanner
( http://www.angryziber.com/w/Home ) it is available for both Windows and Linux.
NB Norton flags Angry IP Scanner as malware because it can be used to explore networks it isn't malware of any kind.
When working with fixed IP addresses if you have router that allows IP addreses to be always allocated to the same PC/Printer use this.
However networking will work even faster if you have the hosts on each PC set up.
On Xp Home the hosts file is c:windowssystem32driversetchosts
On Xp Pro the hosts files is c:winntsystem32driversetchosts
It is just a matter of adding the sames of file and print servers to the hosts file which can be edited in Notepad. NB a Hash # sign is used to
comment out lines that aren't in use.
For more info see http://accs-net.com/hosts/how_to_use_hosts.html
For example my hosts file looks like this
--------------------------------------------------------
# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.3 MAXDATA
192.168.1.1
192.168.1.2 HPB294E9
192.168.1.3 127.0.0.1 MAXDATA localhost
192.168.1.4 minty
192.168.1.5 store1
192.168.1.67 freenas
[Edited on 15/1/08 by britishtrident]
Great - looks like it's playtime at my desk tonight!
cheers.