Suggestions for Printer for College

[Schola]

I need a new printer to replace my aging HP 550C for College. I was looking at either the Epson Photo Stylus 870 or the HP 970Cse. It will also be used to print pictures that were taken from my digital camera.

Schola

 

[1337Bryan]

The 970 is a fine printer... A bit pricy in my opinion however. For photos the 932c will give you identical quality for 1/2 the price. You will however, lose the duplexer and some speed. Either would serve you well.

 

[Henry Kuo]

Well, if you have to print pictures, those are good ones. I personally prefer HP for its black and white, and i like Epson more for its color.

 

[Erasmus-X]

You also loose the RISC CPU that the 970 has. The 932C only works in Windows because it's a "WinPrinter." If you only use Windows, the print quality is identical and it would probably be wisest to save money and get the 932C instead.

 

[rahvin]

Why don't you just use the school's printers or do you have money to throw away?

 

[PCAddict]

Save $100 and get the HP DeskJet 952. It is the same printer as the 970 but does not include the duplex unit. If you really need double-sided printing capability right now, then get the 970. If you go with the 952 you can always add the duplexer later. Or, you can do what I do and print pages 1,3,5,7,9, etc and then refeed the sheets and print 2,4,6,8,10 etc on the back sides.

 

[Sir Fredrick]

I got a Canon BJC-8200 photo printer, it got great reviews and it prints pictures perfectly. The "think tank" technology is a cool idea too. There's a seperate cartridge for each of these colors: Blac, photo cyan, photo magenta, cyan, magenta, yellow
If you run out of one color you just replace that. Each cartridge is pretty cheap ($7-12 depending on where you buy).

 

[Schola]

The epson is the same way, as that BJC you said. The 932C is out of the picture if it is a winprinter cause I also run BeOS and need to be able to print from there. I don't use the schools printer because I want one for my dorm room for my personal usage. So it sounds like the 952C is a good choice, but one question, does it work outside of windows?

Schola