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I've had it for four years and I replace the cartridge once or twice a year. Never tried the grayscale.It works great in draft mode.
It's fast too.There are newer versions of this printer that cost less, have ethernet and wireless. I almost never go for normal or photo mode.
I use this at home for printing the occasional paper, directions, or rarely photos. I find the tricolor cartridge actually makes nicer pictures than the photo cartridge.
If I had to buy it again I'd probably go for that. It does these functions very well.One thing I always shop for is the size of the ink cartridges and this printer is capable of taking huge 20+ ml black cartridges, which really cuts down on the cost of running it.
Printing photos tends to eat up the color cartridge, so I do that sparingly or have them done at a lab.
The printer is very well made and the stainless steel gives it a nice look. We have never used it to print photos so I can not say how well it would work. We have owned this printer for about 2 years now and it has held up very well. We have never had any problems with it We use it primarily for black and white printing and sometimes color.
The icons on the LED panel are largely incomprehensible. Worst of all, there is no user manual.
All other questions are referred to an alleged 'On-Screen Users' Guide' which in fact does not exist for this model. The Reference Guide is only a few pages long and contains no details.
This printer is not merely user-indifferent; it is user-hostile. If it runs out of paper you have to reboot it to get it going again.
After many hours of experimentation I still have not succeeded in printing a photo, because nothing tells you how to do so. The black-and-white print quality is very good, but it eats its own weight in expensive consumables several times a year.
The paper tray is a flimsy piece of crap, with utterly illegible black-on-black lettering that gives no indication of manner of use.
It would start a print job, and then get confused or something and would just stop. This seems like a poor engineering idea, to have cheap printed circuitry (like metallic ink on heavy paper) next to a sharp spring.I have read reviews of the HP Deskjet 6940 (the new version of this printer), and it seems that it has the same exact problem.While the printer was working, it printed with good quality. However, the printer would stall often. The ink cartridge holders are very fragile. Sometimes, it restarted the job and finished properly, but sometimes I had to manually end the job and just reprint. The stub on the black ink cartridge holder broke, so the printer would sometimes not sense that it had a cartridge in it. There is a tiny plastic stub that holds a giant spring that senses that a cartridge is in place or not. More importantly, the loose spring soon poked a hole in the printed circuitry that connects to the cartridge, so it broke completely.
Kind of annoying. Great printer, quiet, reliable. Only con - you need a colored ink cartridge in or it will tell you that there is no color cartridge every time you print.
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