For the simple needs user this printer answers the questions. Small enough for the desktop and so cheap the price won’t even make you take a look back. It’s functions are simple and the results are good. It comes with a software bundle that is user friendly and you can do some good things with the software regarding photos and graphics.

Cons of the Canon Pixma iP1800 is no output tray to capture prints. It also gobbles up lots of ink so be ready to buy more cartridges. This isn’t for heavy duty usage but for the small and occasional printing use. So don’t get it if you intend on doing major desktop publishing.

The specifications of the Canon Pixma iP1800 are a width of 17.4 in, depth of 9.3 in, height of 6 in, and a weight of 7.3 lbs. It carries a 4 ink cartridge of black, cyan, yellow, magenta. The print speed is 20 ppm ( pages per minute ) for black and white, 16 ppm color.

Maximum resolution is 600 x 600 dpi black and white and 4800 x 1200 dpi. It prints on plain paper and photo paper.

Operating System requirements are Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, Vista and Apple MacOS X 10.2.8-10.4x. It also comes with Canon Easy Photo Print and Drivers & Utilities.

Overall Canon PIXMA iP1800 is an affordable compact unit that doesn’t weigh much nor take up too much space. It’s not for heavy duty printing so don’t expect to start printing your next photo journal or great novel. It’s simple for home use and good as a starter for kids and newbies to computers and printers. It’s simple use interface is a plus but it can be ink hungry so prepare to buy extra cartridges for this multi functional laser printer for text, graphics, and photos.

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This printer’s dimensions are 7 in height, 13.4 in wide, 8.8 in depth, and weighs 10 lbs.

The specifics of the Samsun ML-1665 are print speeds up to 17 ppm (pages per minute), a print resolution up to 1200 x 600 dpi. It holds 150 sheets and is connected to your computer via USB 2.0. It also has a one year limited warranty.

The Samsung ML-1665 comes with Samsung's AnyWeb print software which allows for some fun drag and drop features making it web page friendly where you can just rock and roll from webpage to print page. This software is tailor made for easy gathering and optimizing data you wish to print.

This printer is simple to use, compact and user friendly and comes with the goodies of a decent software package.

With it’s 5,000 page monthly duty cycle and uncomplicated printer cartridge assembly means you’ll have generally a problem free desktop printing experience for photo, text, and graphics that this multi function laser inkjet printer.

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It’s got the pros of easy use, having only one button for operation instead of the large menu options of other printers so don’t worry about a learning curve. The cartridge is all three colors in one cartridge and replacement occurs when only one color is depleted.

The specifications of this unit are width 17 in, depth 7.8 in, height 6.2 in, and weight of 4.9 lbs. The printer itself is the HP thermal Inkjet with 4 ink cyan, magenta, yellow, and black wit 1 black cartidge and 1 color cartridge. The connectivity is Wired, USB interface. Resolution at maximum is 1200 dpi and 4800 x 1200 dpi. It has a duty cycle of 750 pages monthly. The black cartridge is good for 200 pages and the color cartridge holds up for 150 pages. Operating system required are Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, 2000, and Apple MacOS X 10.5 or later.

If you want a printer with no frills attached, something that just prints, doesn’t call your office, talk to your tv set or walk the dog, then this HP Deskjet D1660 is for you. Again, it’s just basic, attractive and the pros are all it does is print. You push one button and it prints. Connects via USB and that’s that. It's print capacity and ink cartridge system are drawbacks as mentioned before. Also it has no output tray and the warranty is only for 90 days whilst other printers offer longer warranties with more service. This is just what it says it is, a small, affordable multifunctional laser printer for text, graphics, and photos.

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This smaller desktop printer has a 2 inch LCD display and is affordable for under $150. It's close to the design and features of the Canon printers of the line and is a good size for the small desk at only 18 inches wide, 14.5 inches deep and 6 inches in height. The printer tray when extended adds another 4 inches or so to the overall size so take that into account.

It looks really good and the display is quite attractive and a unique feature to this inkjet printer. It also comes with Canon's Easy Scroll Wheel that is also a unique feature that Canon fans come to expect.

Canon MP560 supports a media card reader that has support for Memory Stick, MMC, MicroSD, SD, xD.

The 150 sheet tray in the back supports smaller photo paper as well as various paper size accommodations. It connects via USB 2.0 and has a wireless print server built in. The software that comes with the Canon MP560 makes it easy to set up and is highly user friendly.

The specs on this multi function inkjet laser printer are 17.9 inches in width, 14.5 in in depth, 6.3 in height and weighs a mere 17.9 lbs.

The memory supported ranges from USB flash drive, Memory Stick Duo, SDHC Memory Card, Memory Stick Pro, MltiMediaCard, CompactFlash, MultiMediaCardplus, Memory Stick Pro Duo, IBM Microdrive, SD Memory Card.

It's max document enlargement is 400% with a max document reduction of 25%. It has an abundance of copying features expected from a Canon model such as 4 on 1, 2 on 1, fit to page, trimming copy, preset copy ratios, gutter shadow correction manual color adjustment, masking copy, face brightener and fading correction, image repeat, auto exposure and intensity.

Add to all that the scanning specs of optical resolution 2400 x 4800 dpi and interpolated resolution of 19200 x 19200 dpi with color depth of 24 bit and color depth internal of 48 bit.

There are a lot more impressive features of this multifunction desktop inkjet laser printer and Canon has kept the rep for their line of printers.

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It's dimensions are 18.5 inches in length, 10.5 wide, and 7.8 in height. It only weighs 11.4 lbs without cartridges so it makes it very portable for a printer.

The ink cartridge can handle 630 pages of text, 450 pages of graphics. The printer can spit out 15 ppm and up to 15 ppm color. A 4 inch x 6 inch photo takes 57 seconds. The printer handles a maximum paper width of 8.5 inches with a max printable area of 4 inches x 6 inches, 5 inches x 7 inches, 8 inches x 10 inches. It has a paper capacity size of 4 inches x 6 inches, 5 inches x 7 inches, 8 inches x 10 inches, letter size, legal size, A4, B5, A5, A6, half letter, executive, and user definable 3.5 inches to 44 inches in length. Borderless photo sizes of 4 inches x 6 inches, 5 inches x 7 inches, 8 inches x 10 inches, and letter sized.

The paper tray can handle 120 sheets plain paper and 20 sheets of photo paper, 10 envelopes, one transparency.

This model came out in 2005 and was designed for easy printing with as many functions possible for it's size and weight. Some people found it easy to set up and ready to use and others found it a bit of a hassle. It's basically a matter of choice and function and it's best to look at the specs and see what it offers in comparison with other models of it's day. It may well have a feature or two that makes it a collectible for your light printing needs. It came out at a time when printers were trying to catch up to the computers and it's just at that borderline of compatibility with systems made today.

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It prints up to 33 ppm (pages per minute) in black and white, and 30 ppm for color.  It comes with software to adapt scanned text into a document you can edit using the ABBYY FineReader Spritn Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.  That should make editing former typewritten manuscripts and documents far easier.  Copying has it at 25 ppm mono, and 21 ppm color.  The max printing resolution is 600 x 600 dpi mono, 4800 x 1200 dpi color.

Media capacity comes in at 100 sheets, output trays capacity 25 sheets.  It connects to your PC via Hi-Speed USB, IEEE 802. 11b, 11g, and 11n.  It is compatible with Windows 7 as well.

It comes with the Dell Ink Management System which is a trademarked system (DIMS that keeps an eye on your ink levels letting you know the quantity of ink you've used.  This allows for not finding out too late that you've run out of ink. You can also order these ink cartridges online so you won't have a problem with this system of coming up short on ink when you need ink the most.  The inkjet printer the Dell V515w uses has both a Series 21 Single Use Standard Capacity Black and Series 21 Single Use Standard Capacity Color cartridge.  That's convenience across the board.

This Dell V515w all in one wireless printer is compact and has several highly essential features that makes it less a headache then some other printers.  It's 19.2 inches wide, 13.4 inches deep, and is 8 inches high.  It weighs 17.4 lbs.  The memory has 64 mb and supports Memory Stick MultMdiaCard, SD Memory Card, Memory Stick Pro, SDHC Memory Card, IBM Microdrive, and xD-Picture Card.

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The fax machine function of this machine has a compatibility of G3 with a max speed of only 14.4 Kbps. The data compression system has JBIG, MMR, MH, and MR. Resolutions of the fax are 203 x 98, 203 x 196, and 203 x 392 dpi. The memory capacity is 600 pages.

Printing is another matter with a maximum of up to 600 x 600 dpi and a maximum printing speed of 15 ppm. The drivers are the PCL 4, and Windows GDI driver.

Scanning functions of the Brother MFC-9700 has 600 x 2400 dpi and an interpolated resolution of 9600 x 9600 dpi. It's gray scale depth is 8 bit.

The largest page size is 8.5 x 14 inches with a feeder capacity of 50 sheets. Minimum copy size is 2.75 x 5 inches, with maximum copy size of 8.5 x 14 inches. The capacity is 250 sheets with media capacity maxing out at 500 sheets.

Also, the fax machine of Brother MFC 9700 features include error correction mode, telephone/fax switching, broadcast transmissions of 158 stations, delayed transmission functions, polling for remote fax retrieval, fax forwarding, answering machine interface, automatic redialing, and Distinctive Ring Pattern Detection aka DRPD.

This printer connects via Parallel and USB and comes with such software as Microsoft Windows 95, 98, ME, XP, 2000, 98 SE, NT 4.0. It also is compatible with Apple Mac OS 9, 8.5, 8.6, and 9.1. It also comes with ScanSoft TextBridge, drivers and utilities, and ScanSoft PaperPort.

It's heavy though as it comes in at 37.5 lbs. It's 19.4 inches wide, 18 inches deep, and 16.9 inches high. It's not compact by any means but it's a classic that's stood the test of time.

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