Hewlett Packard DeskJet 5550 Inkjet Printer

Pros: Price, photo print quality, ease of use
Cons: Ink cartridges are more expensive

After purchasing my new digital camera and printing photos on my old Canon Printer, I decided that I needed a really good photo printer. I haven’t bought a printer in years for my personal use and began shopping around. I will not say that the HP...

Pros: Cheap, excellent print quality for text and photos!, borderless prints, low profile
Cons: expensive ink costs!, seems to take up more desk space because of UFO design

HP sunk $1.2 billion into revamping its digital imaging and printing lineups. One of the results in the DeskJet 5550 that hit the markets this month. It's nice to know that HP didn't waste its money for nothing.

The DeskJet 5550 is the...

Pros: Excellent High Quality, 6 color Photo Printing, reasonably priced.
Cons: Ink cartridges small and slightly expensive.

When you use a digital still camera instead of your 35mm SLR, to take your keepsake photos, you have to make some decisions. You can either e-mail your photo files to a photo developing company such as Mystic Photo Labs or you can print them yourself....

Pros: Solid performance, excellent color, super support
Cons: Large footprint, Win2000 buggy,no cables

Lets face it, with today’s prices, it is cheaper to replace a printer than service one. Especially with the rapidly dropping prices and increasing print quality. And when my Lexmark laser died, I was in the market for a new printer. Enter Hewlet...

Pros: Good quality black and white.
Cons: Lackluster color, HORRIBLY expensive ink.

Ok first let me start off that I work at Staples and until recently, I was one of HP's biggest fans. Their inkjets and most of their other products have had a long-standing reputation of quality.

Now in recent years Epson and even Canon have...

Pros: Jetsons Styling, High Print Quality, Mini-Me Cartridges
Cons: Inkjet Cost/Page, Miss Piggy power brick, no USB cable, OK text, S L O W

I've had this love-hate relationship with inkjet printers, like the time my employer at the time dec ...

Pros: Great Quality, Quiet Operation, Looks Cool, Auto-Paper-Type really works
Cons: Not many: Flimsy plastic, goofy network install, critical alignment tough

I've been using a color laser printer for the past two years. Actually, a solid-ink printer from Xerox/Tektronix (Phaser 850), which produces fantastic image-quality at a high-speed. Unfortunately, the printer broke a week ago (bummer, since it cost...

Pros: Unmatched Print Quality, Vibrant Colours, Decent Speed, Easy Setup, Nifty Features, Hp Quality, Price
Cons: Ink cartridges smaller, but still pricey. Slightly flimsy.

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Pros: Great value, many features
Cons: Some "design" issues. Cartridge life. Expensive cartridges.

After owning an HP Deskjet 500 for about 10 years, it finally died on us. We did such infrequent printing, that I just couldn't justify spending money on a new printer unless our existing one failed. Seeing as we owned a fairly high quality 4MP digital ...

Pros: great photo and text quality, photo cartridge
Cons: no dedicated black cartridge with the photo cartridge, expensive ink

Introduction This is a printer from HP's middle class. This means you won't be paying as much (a good thing) but you probably will not be able to achieve the quality you would get with the Photosmart (have not tried yet) from HP. Now I originally had ...

Pros: Great Quality, Quiet Operation, Looks Cool, Auto-Paper-Type really works
Cons: Not many: Flimsy plastic, goofy network install, critical alignment tough

I've been using a color laser printer for the past two years. Actually, a solid-ink printer from Xerox/Tektronix (Phaser 850), which produces fantastic image-quality at a high-speed. Unfortunately, the printer broke a week ago (bummer, since it cost...

Pros: Easy to use, fast, quiet, low profile, fairly versatile.
Cons: As with most color inkjet printers HP's are a bit on the pricey side.

Sheesh! How many inkjet printers are there on the market? Finding a good one is a daunting task. Add to that the desire to not pay a lot of money and the choices, while fewer, become harder. In my research I found that no one loved a particular mo ...

Pros: Good quality and speed for everyday jobs.
Cons: Short-lived ink cartridges; better for photos and reports than plain text.

Those of us who wear animal skins and live in caves remember being awestruck by the first laser printers, with their 300 dots per inch of black-and-white resolution for unbelievably sharp, razor-fine text and images compared to contemporary dot-matrix...

Pros: very fashionable design(it looks expensive!)
Cons: paper loading is difficult

While enjoying a leisurely stroll along Pc world not so long ago I happened to stumble upon a two fine looking contraptions co-incidentally placed next to each other, the price tags amazed me I had to make my own side by side comparisons. The printers in...

Pros: HP Quality
Cons: Cartridge system, flimsy design.

The 5550 came at a time when HP's best printer (all things considered) was on its way out the door. The departure of the fantastic Deskjet 960C for $199 (and its Photosmart 1115 sister), was disappointing, but the idea that the 5550 would be filling its...